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Jeremy Day
@daylab.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at UAB interested in molecular and genetic mechanisms in brain function. Director, UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center.
New computational paper from the lab! Thanks to the reviewers for helping us improve this paper from the preprint version and Nucleic Acids Research for a smooth publication process.
Excited to share that our article on accurate sample deconvolution of pooled snRNA-seq data using sex-dependent gene expression patterns is live on NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics! 🎉

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/narg...

#NARGenomicsandBioinformatics #snRNAseq #Genomics #Bioinformatics
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November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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So excited to see our latest paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com! Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41.... VTA GABA neurons have a unique role in economic decision making - they integrate reward seeking motivation and the current cost of seeking
Ventral tegmental area GABA neurons integrate positive and negative valence - Nature Communications
The role of ventral tegmental area GABA neurons in behavior is unclear. Here, authors show that VTA GABA but not dopamine neurons integrate positive and negative valence to encode motivational conflic...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Congratulations to Ian Maze, Ph.D. and Erin Calipari, Ph.D. for being awarded the Daniel H. Efron Research Award. 🎉#ACNP2026

November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Day Lab will be representing our work at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference (@sfn.org) in San Diego this week in two sessions - stop by to see updates on a lot of really cool science! #SfN2025 #Neuroscience
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Hi All @sfn.org attendees #SfN2025!
Please come see what's happening in the lab & support some excellent researchers (whilst getting out of the rain!).
With topics ranging from #HIV, #psychedelics, #fiberphotometry, #social rewards, #risky decision making, to #opioid withdrawal cog deficits!
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost!

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Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with The University of Utah | 37914733
The University of Utah seeks a Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Awesome work by lead author Lauren Burgeno et al: Dopamine evoked by non-contingent cues increases over cocaine use, producing greater cue reactivity; whereas dopamine evoked by contingent cues decreases over cocaine use, producing escalation of drug consumption. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cocaine seeking and consumption are oppositely regulated by mesolimbic dopamine in male rats - Nature Communications
Here authors demonstrate how opposing trajectories of dopamine transmission underlie changes in drug seeking and taking over chronic drug use. Increased dopamine to drug cues elevates craving, whereas...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The Gowrishankar lab will be opening its doors @neuro_MUSC on Dec 1, 2025! We will be hiring at all levels. I will also be at @SfNtweets presenting my lab's vision on Wednesday, Nov 19, 8AM-12PM at poster board GG7. If you're interested, please reach out!

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Gowrishankar Lab
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November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Congratulations to the 2025 SfN award & prize recipients!

Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries.

SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25.

Learn about the recipients.

🔗 vist.ly/4cni8

#neurosky
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Whoever wins the #worldseries tonight is going to make a legion of fans for life
The psychology of fans &identification with teams is fascinating
Like goslings, boys imprint on the team that wins when they are young. A championship leads them to identify with a team for life, especially boys 8-12
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.

Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🚨The paper from my postdoc in @graeffjohannes.bsky.social’s lab at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social is out! We show that memories can be switched on and off by simply changing the « packaging » of DNA in neurons through epigenetic editing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cell-type- and locus-specific epigenetic editing of memory expression - Nature Genetics
CRISPR-based epigenetic editing is used in a cell-type-specific, locus-restricted and temporally controllable manner in the adult mouse brain to modulate memory expression.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Some amazing portrait style photos of bats here. Please reply with your favorite one.
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Bat Photography (Portraits) - José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca
Portraits of bats from the neotropics, Madagascar, Malaysia, and the United States. Can't find a species of interest? Do not hesitate in contacting me for additional info
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October 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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🧠✨ Genetic Tools Atlas 3.0 is here!

The GTA now has an additional 750 datasets, including 80+ mouse whole-brain light sheet microscopy images as well as the first macaque datasets.

🔗 https://portal.brain-map.org/genetic-tools/genetic-tools-atlas

#neuroskyence
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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These images of a tissue block face are part of an ongoing effort to map the molecular neuroanatomy of human 🧠 basal ganglia & basal forebrain structures at high resolution 🔬🧪. You can totally get lost staring at these - human 🧠 organization is fascinating.
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:
October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life
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Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA
Scientific Reports - Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA
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October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!
Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Check out our new work from former undergrad Akash Shanmugam and team in Addiction Neuroscience directly comparing the rewarding and analgesic potencies of morphine and methadone. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Methadone and morphine have equivalent analgesic but not reward potency in female mice
Morphine is a potent opioid analgesic but carries high abuse potential. Some evidence indicates that the opioid methadone, used in maintenance therapy…
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September 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Developmental Neurobiology
A postdoctoral research associate position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Lindsay Schwarz in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Schwarz l...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM