2025 POSTDOC PIONEERS
Nurunisa Akyuz
Lab of David Corey, Harvard Medical School
Structural Insights into the Molecular Machinery of Hearing Using Human Inner Ear Organoids
Vikram Chandra
Lab of Mansi Srivastava, Harvard University
A New Neuroscience Model for Distributed Computation, Brain Regeneration, and Evolution
Rachel Segal Greenberg
Lab of Stephen Liberles, Harvard Medical School
Characterizing Neuronal Control of the Female Reproductive Tract
Alen Juginović
Lab of Dragana Rogulja, Harvard Medical School
Understanding How Sleep Loss Promotes Colorectal Cancer Development Through Gut Oxidation
Eric Moult
Lab of Adam Cohen, Harvard University
Whole-Brain, Multi-Timepoint Recording of Neural Activity
Özge Demet Özcete
Lab of Pascal Kaeser, Harvard Medical School
Multiple Serotonin Release Modes Under Distinct Molecular Control
Sisi Yang
Lab of Chenghua Gu, Harvard Medical School
Identification of Novel Blood-Brain Barrier Regulators Using Spatial Proteomics In Vivo
Community Stories
Have you ever had the sense that the person you’re talking to is just a “robot”? That they’re following some script without thinking about it? New research by Ilona Bass and Tomer Ullman examines the detection of automatic behavior in other people, finding it is a common and robust phenomenon across domains.
Neurons receive synaptic inputs all along their dendrites. Dendrites can produce electrical spikes, independent of the cell body. What are these excitations for? Park, Wong-Campos, and Cohen mapped the voltage throughout the dendrites of neurons and found that dendritic excitations were mostly triggered by specific patterns of spiking at the cell body – suggesting that the dendritic excitations play an important role in regulating synaptic plasticity.
A new study from Catherine Dulac and colleagues, first author Harris Kaplan explores how one small brain region called the preoptic area (POA) of the hypothalamus changes through early life in mice. Though tiny, the POA is a known hub for neurons that govern basic needs like thirst and hunger, as well as neurons that regulate social behavior.
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