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2 Feb 2025
🧠 Curious about neuromodulator interactions or how sleep works its magic? Apply to our lab @WashUMedNeuro as a postdoc to bridge cellular & systems neuroscience by decoding biochemical signaling dynamics in the brain! Please RT. #Neuroscience #PostdocOpportunity #BrainResearch
30 Jan 2025
🚨Job Alert 🚨
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Chen Lab)
@yaochen20’s interdisciplinary lab in the Department of Neuroscience at WashU Medicine seeks a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join the team.
Learn more and apply: neuroscience.wustl.edu/items…
ALT Graphic includes image of Neuroscience Research Building with downtown St. Louis in the background. Graphic reads: Join our team. Postdoctoral Research Associate (Chen Lab)
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A team including @NingShenStella, @KLabVision and Philip Ruzycki @WashUMedDOVS showed that boosting expression of two candidate genes reduced photoreceptor death, maintained light-sensing capabilities of the retina and preserved vision.
@NeuroCellPress
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1/n Are biological neurons linear-nonlinear computers, like perceptrons, or is their output governed by non-linear interactions between inputs? If the activity of a neuron is well fit by linear models that sum inputs, does that mean that the neural computation actually is linear?
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We are hiring a postdoc! We study neural activity and movement using holographic optogenetics in awake mice. My first postdoc is starting his own lab, so now we have an opening. Reach out if your excited about circuits, optics, coding, or ephys. oldenburglab.com
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Deadline approaching ⏳
Postdocs & senior PhD students in computational neuroscience—don’t miss this opportunity:
CTCN Next Generation Symposium (Sept 14–15, 2026)
✔ Travel funded
✔ Present your research
✔ Connect with faculty
Apply by May 4: ctcn.wustl.edu/2026-next-gen…
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Deadline Extended!
Postdocs & senior PhD students in computational neuroscience—don’t miss this:
CTCN Next Generation Symposium (Sept 14–15, 2026) @WashUMedNeuro
✔ Travel funded
✔ Present your research
✔ Connect with faculty
New deadline: May 4
Apply: neuroscience.wustl.edu/ctcn-…
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Apr 13
📢📢My lab at @VanderbiltU is hiring! We are looking for passionate Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Assistants to join our team investigating somatosensory development and repair.
Please help me RT and share with your networks.
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Apr 7
Grateful to my lab members, colleagues, mentors, and collaborators for having such an impact on my research and teaching! This award is encouragement for me to keep making an impact with these wonderful people.
Dr. Yao Chen of @WashUMedicine has been named a 2026 Dean’s Impact Award recipient, recognized for her research on how brain signaling shapes behavior, learning, and disease, and for her commitment to mentorship.
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Postdoc Opportunity
The CTCN Fellowship supports interdisciplinary research across theoretical, computational & experimental neuroscience.
• Multi-lab collaborations
• Above-NIH salary travel funds
• Top neuroscience program
Apply by May 1
ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fello…
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Opportunity for postdocs & senior PhD students in computational neuroscience
The CTCN Next Generation Symposium (Sept 14–15, 2026) @WashUMedNeuro now accepting applications.
✔ Travel funded
✔ Present your research
✔ Meet WashU faculty
Apply by Apr 24
ctcn.wustl.edu/2026-next-gen…
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Feb 28
🧠 We're hiring! My department @WashUMedNeuro is recruiting a Director of Strategic Initiatives: tinyurl.com/5a3mdr59. Consider joining our scientific family to enable new discoveries, new ideas, and creative ways of doing science.
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My department @WashUMedNeuro is recruiting Assistant or Associate Professor of neuroscience. Join us for great science and a collegial environment! facultyopportunities.wustl.e… Please repost.
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2 Oct 2025
Our latest led by @TVKamath with important contributions by collaborators including Nao Uchida, Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida and @LinTianPhD
Hunger modulates exploration through suppression of dopamine signaling in the tail of the striatum: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
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15 Sep 2025
We are very excited to announce our new study
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
led by recently minted PhD @RichieHakim. He first developed FaceRhythms to break down videos of facial behaviors into interpretable spatial-spectral components and then showed that these are highly ...
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28 Aug 2025
Our paper simulating fluorescence lifetime in real-life experiments is now a Version of Record @eLife! We hope it helps FLIM users with more rigor and innovation. If you are interested in turning our innovation proposals into reality, we welcome motivated people to join our lab.
25 Jul 2025
Revised manuscript in @eLife: The promise and peril of comparing fluorescence lifetime in biology revealed by simulations doi.org/10.7554/eLife.101559
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Big thanks to co-authors @PC_Ma93, Peter Chen, and @BrainCaRMA for the adventure together! Grateful to the editors and reviewers for their valuable feedback! If anybody has questions or feedback after using our package, please get in touch.
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Revised manuscript in @eLife: The promise and peril of comparing fluorescence lifetime in biology revealed by simulations doi.org/10.7554/eLife.101559
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Can synapses in the brain switch their signs between excitatory and inhibitory during learning🚦?
Can they act more like weights in artificial neural networks, able to switch signs based on experience 🔃?
Excited to share my thesis work in @blsabatini lab!
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23 Jul 2025
Excited to share new work from our lab, John Assad @blsabatini! We show reward-related signaling of dopamine (DA) neurons exerts one-shot calibrating updates to movement timing—a measure of vigor. #Dopamine #Neuroscience @WhiteheadInst @harvardmed
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16 Jul 2025
📣📣 Exciting opportunity to present your work at Vanderbilt! Please apply and help me spread the word!
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8 Jun 2025
We have an updated version of our fluorescence lifetime simulation manuscript now: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. We have included a Python version of the package in addition to the original Matlab package. We hope this is useful for the community and welcome feedback.
12 Nov 2024
Our paper, "The promise and peril of comparing fluorescence lifetime in biology revealed by simulations", is now on @eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.101559. Hope readers will use our package to design and interpret FLIM experiments rigorously, and also give us feedback.
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