Neuroscience PhD candidate @Stanford Deisseroth and Luo labs ▪︎ @NSFGRFP & @StanfordVPGE DARE fellow ▪︎ @EmoryUniversity

Joined February 2020
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
30 May 2025
💥Emotions are central to the human experience 😠😳😃☺️😔😕😮🙂 Our Human Neural Circuitry team just took a step towards understanding how they arise–using brain-wide electrical ⚡recordings in humans and mice @ScienceMagazine Read on for more… 1/n
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & for myself, expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry work to the service of basic discovery: med.stanford.edu/news/all-ne… I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with the amazing lead authors Isaac Kauvar @ikauvar, Ethan Richman, and Tony Liu @liutony66, and with equally brilliant faculty colleagues in our HNC program: Carolyn Rodriguez @CRodriguezMDPhD, Paul Nuyujukian, and Vivek Buch @VivekBuchMD, along with many other key collaborators spanning hospital and laboratory. x.com/KarlDeisseroth/status/…
The next gen of HNC is already on the way! Left to right: @SamVesuna (MD PhD psychiatry resident), @ikauvar (PhD neuroengineer), @chibyanada (program manager extraordinaire), & @liutony66 (bioengineering PhD student). New/improved in all ways, with better album cover picture too.
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🚨new paper🚨 Thirst and hunger are our most primitive and vital drives. But what exactly are they in the brain? How do they enforce behavior? In our new Annual Review, we tackle this topic and discuss the science that links peripheral physiology to motivation and action. 🔗⬇️
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
These sea turtles dance for joy when they magnetically sense it’s snack time. Learn more on #InternationalDanceDay: scim.ag/4hZLGDf
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
Replying to @NIH
Are you joking? Heaps of necessary costs to conduct research are not allowed in the direct costs; this money is not arbitrary administrative costs. It's a necessary component of the research enterprise.
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
Opioid drugs drive electrical insulation of reward circuitry nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

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This madness needs to stop
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
We are so excited to have @lencriv visiting us here @IMSDEmory @emorycollege Lucas is a 2020 graduate of Emory who is pursuing his PhD in neuroscience @Stanford as an @NSF funded graduate fellow- amazing to have him talk with current MARC/IMSD students about his path🧠
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
We are looking to hire a new team member/research technician! Should have research experience and the ability to collaborate well within a team! See more details here: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORD_A9Q0…

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Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal — who pioneered studies of animal cognition while also writing best-selling books that helped popularize the field around the globe — passed away March 14. links.emory.edu/Ta
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Excited to share our new paper out today, led by Yanjun Sun, on how the subiculum contains a code for convex and concave geometry! A huge effort – congrats to all (@nitz_douglas & Xiangmin Xu)! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

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Excited to see Ethan Richman's tour de force study of homeostatic drive competition come out! Brain-wide Neuropixels exciting new approaches for modeling internal states. With Liqun Luo and @KarlDeisseroth nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
Excited to share our first preprint on the neurobiology of collective behavior, where we studied the development of schooling in the transparent fish Danionella cerebrum 🐟🐟🐟🐟📜 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
Alright Nobel committee, no more shenanigans. Optogenetics for the Chemistry prize tomorrow!
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Story finally out ⭐️ We found that hypothalamic oxytocin cells in maternal mice receive inputs from the auditory thalamus, increase their activity following distress pup vocalizations to release central oxytocin and modulate behavior nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

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New paper dropped @CellCellPress with @DanielBayless and @YRenzhi in @NiraoShah lab!!! Huge huge team effort. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…

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Today, I got the wordle in one try. Dreams really do come true.
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera retweeted
Please RT #VosshallLab is hiring! This is a research/leadership/ mentorship position similar to a staff scientist. A great opportunity to carry out independent research and mentor early career scientists in the lab. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/e…

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