she/her Spencer lab University of Colorado Boulder Behavioral Neuroscience PhD candidate. Studying how molecular clocks in the brain tick tock on time.
Boulder, CO
Joined November 2017
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Congrats @DillonMcGovern1 for being a recipient of the @NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! @NeuronRoot @CUPsychandNeuro
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Where are you right now on this activity plot? Do you fit in with the crowd, or are you at the tail of the distribution?
HT @kim1n4o for sending this fascinating illustration of #chronotype by @Ros_Rodriguez_
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New pre-print led by @DillonMcGovern1 @ampolter @anni3_ly @EmilyDPrevost and @ConnorMcNulty_ showing that a subset of VTA glutamate neurons establish a mu-opioid receptor gated circuit to mesolimbic dopamine neurons and participate in opioid-seeking behavior
Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neurons establish a mu-opioid receptor gated circuit to mesolimbic dopamine neurons and regulate ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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🙌 THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK HAS HIT IRELAND WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS. 🙌
The Irish Findings are as follows:
• 100% of the companies involved are continuing with the 4-Day work week ➡
• 85% of companies which reported data on revenue reported growth in revenue 📈 (1/X)
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New paper examining the sensitivity of young children's phase shifting response to evening light!
Like adults, children's circadian systems are highly sensitive to light, as @laurenhartstein et al show in their new #JBR paper. Can bright light before bed explain difficulty in getting children to sleep? Read more here:
doi.org/10.1177/074873042211…
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Ventral tegmental area glutamate neurons mediate nonassociative consequences of stress -- now published in @molpsychiatry rdcu.be/c0vVB
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Sporting night vision goggles, a scientist probes the internal clocks that help parasites infect people statnews.com/2022/11/21/para… via @statnews
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When your "education" limits your imagination it's called indoctrination. Those who cannot think for themselves are truly lost.
Education should be a rewarding experience which allows you to think, imagine, question, doubt and solve problems. 🧠
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Another fun collaboration! This one with @McClungColleen lab’s @MadelineRScott. 12 hour molecular rhythms in human brain!!
The human brain has 12 hr rhythms!! And the timing of mitochondrial related transcript expression is completely wrong in schizophrenia, which could lead to suboptimal neuronal energy when cells need it most. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Ban assault rifles, not books.
Regulate firearms, not women’s bodies.
Protect kids, not lobbyists.
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2 days ago, I became a PhD candidate
in lieu of all the sappy things I could say, I'll share this post-it my PI keeps on his door
the 1st time we discussed what became Aim 3, he flat out told me "that'll never work but you're welcome to try" then took me outside & showed me this
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Nina @Neurocool and @ONeill_Lab have been surveying the circadian field for a consensus on technical terms. The first results from "Clockology" were at #srbr2022 - you can get involved by participating in a Virtual Voting Booth until May 31st surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WMM6NVP
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Another new paper this week! We find that disruption of the SCN via opto leads to increased anxiety-like behavior that correlates directly with loss of amplitude. Congrats to Chelsea Vadnie and Kaitlyn Petersen et al. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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We have not one but two!!! prof. research asst. positions available in my lab. Social behavior, vole wrangling, molecular genetic tools, Ca2+ imaging and more. Application links (but also shoot me an email):
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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Someone told me that in >18 years of education, I was the first teacher they had that looked like them. While I'm glad and honored that I could be for them, it is hard to articulate how heavy the weight of this situation is for us and others like it. Representation matters.
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New paper out from our lab! A few comments on why I think this was a really neat study follow… 🧵
Elevated fear responses to threatening cues in rats with early life st... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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CU Boulder's Neuroscience Seminar series warmly welcomes Dr. Andrew Tan, our colleague from CU Boulder's IPHY program, who will be speaking on effective therapies he's discovered to restore walking abilities after a spinal cord injury. TODAY, 4PM, Zoom/remote, contact for link!
