interested in behaviour, cognition, psychology, neuroscience
Asheville, NC
Joined November 2018
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Simon Nilsson retweeted
This work is now online!
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
Many thanks to @mbruchas for the mentorship, our co-authors, reviewers and @NIDAnews for the funding.
If you're interested in following up on how endogenous opioids promote motivated behavior, my lab @neuro_MUSC is hiring!
Excited to share our work in the @mbruchas lab on how endogenous opioids promote goal-directed behavior, funded by @NIDAnews. I am currently on the job market and this work will form the basis of my research program.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Happy to share our last work, where we studied neurons with dopamine receptors in the Central Amygdala upon cocaine intoxication
Opposing effects of rewarding and aversive stimuli on D1 and D2 types of dopamine-sensitive neurons in the central amygdala biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Funded PhD opportunity at @UoBrisPPN for UK applicants of Black African or other Black or mixed Black heritage - collaborative project with @P_Anastasiades & @clembrnrd & me on the neural and molecular underpinnings of negative symptoms in schizophrenia FindAPhD.com
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Preprint alert! 🚨
I am glad to finally share part of my PhD thesis as a preprint in @biorxivpreprint biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… with @luyten_laura and @TomRBeckers. Here we investigated avoidance acquisition, fear generalization and extinction in male and female rats
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Excited to present my work in the @mbruchas lab and visions for my own lab @SinaiBrain on August 27!
📅 Save the date for our upcoming seminar on August 27th! 🧠
Join us as @outRaajeous from the @mbruchas lab at @UW dives into how endogenous opioid release in the dorsal striatum influences goal-directed behavior, hosted by @Tamaramaneuro, @BrandonHughes90, and @veronikakondev.
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So excited to have my first project in the @DrChristineAnnD lab finally online! doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.12.6…! Tl;dr: we made an R software package for scalable mapping and (most importantly) analysis and visualization of 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 brain-wide ensembles.
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AI/ML is changing biotech, but image segmentation will always depend on signal quality. Our new paper in @PNASNews presents a robust genetic strategy for brain cell counting that boosts throughput where AI/ML falls short. Check it out! 🧠🔬 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Thank you @uwmnewsroom for covering our latest genetic strategy that helps automate brain cell mapping studies!!!
An approach to genetic labeling of a cell’s nucleus with fluorescence appears to have several advantages for brain mapping at the single-cell level. Designed by Eric Szelenyi (@ESzelenyi) @BioStructureUW. @GoldenNeuron.
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Happy to share this @ahmari_lab work co-led by myself, @DrLizzieManning and @britt_lynn4, with critical help from @vijay_mkn and @DrJamiePierson!
We investigated how striatal spiny projection neurons contribute to compulsive grooming in Sapap3-KO mice.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Simon Nilsson retweeted
Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience, reconceptualizing behavior as a sharable reagent
@NastaciaGoodwin @nilssonsro @GoldenNeuron
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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Behavioral endpoints in academia and industry are in desperate need of new tools to streamline analysis, and accelerate key experimental insights. The SimBA platform developed by @nilssonsro @GoldenNeuron @NastaciaGoodwin is a giant leap towards this goal! Try it out today.
Reconceptualizing behavior as a sharable reagent:
rdcu.be/dIFmr
We present a platform for behavioral analysis called Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA). A sincere thank you to the community for their continued expert feedback and suggestions
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AI advances studies to link animal behavior to brain activity by more rapid, accurate recording & analysis than can be done by human observers. @BioStructureUW @GoldenNeuron @NastaciaGoodwin @nilssonsro @NatureNeuro tinyurl.com/37byhfpk
ALT A video frame of two mice whose behavior is being analyzed by SimBA. The dots represent the body parts being tracked by the program. Image credit: Nastacia Goodwin
Reconceptualizing behavior as a sharable reagent:
rdcu.be/dIFmr
We present a platform for behavioral analysis called Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA). A sincere thank you to the community for their continued expert feedback and suggestions
Simon Nilsson retweeted
If you are a female, whose genes have a stronger hold over your behavior and mind – your dad or mom’s?
Online today, our work in @CellReports @CellPressNews used single-cell brain mapping of X each chromosome-a producer of the most brain genes- in mice for clues.
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Check out our new paper published in Scientific Reports, using @DeepLabCut and SimBA @GoldenNeuron to automate behaviour quantification of the balance beam test in an early Parkinson's disease model 🐀
🚀 New Parkinson's study uses @DeepLabCut to detect early motor impairments in Parkinson's disease mouse models using the balance beam test.🐭 🧬
A step forward in PD research!
➡️nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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A new paper from the lab led by @IlneBarnard and @TimOnofrychuk published in #eNeuro! We ask the question: does Cannabis smoke exposure impair incidental memory in male rats? eneuro.org/content/10/12/ENE… 1/4
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A gerbil pup’s path to independence 🐹
Very excited to share my first preprint!
So grateful to my amazing mentors Dan Sanes and Catalin Mitelut, and all our co-authors :)
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Now published in Scientific Reports! Maternal behavior affects a variety of developmental outcomes. AMBER eliminates the training and scoring reliability drawbacks of manual scoring, allowing assessment of maternal behavior regardless of behavior expertise nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
The era of automated home cage maternal behavior is here! Using @DeepLabCut and SimBA @GoldenNeuron, we generated models to track rat dams and pups and score seven maternal behaviors with high accuracy. 🧵