Ana Dorrego Rivas
@adorrego.bsky.social
Postdoc @GrubbLab- Centre for Developmental Neurobiology - King's College London | Unconventional neurons, axons, dendrites, and how they talk to each other! | Wellcome Trust ECA Research fellow | 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧
I sometimes also discuss books here 📚
I sometimes also discuss books here 📚
You know it's time to pack your things and go for a break when you stimulate the CA1 and record the CA3 (instead of the other way around) and wonder why you're not getting any response...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You know it's time to pack your things and go for a break when you stimulate the CA1 and record the CA3 (instead of the other way around) and wonder why you're not getting any response...
And also in Daily Neuron! We're chuffed to see the media coverage of the paper 💥🎉
Our paper is featured in Neuroscience News @neurosciencenews.bsky.social !
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Two Dopamine Neuron Subtypes Process Smell in Different Ways - Neuroscience News
Closely related dopamine-releasing neurons in the olfactory bulb behave in fundamentally different ways depending on their physical structure.
neurosciencenews.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And also in Daily Neuron! We're chuffed to see the media coverage of the paper 💥🎉
Last day of work before xmas: priorities sorted
December 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Last day of work before xmas: priorities sorted
Our paper is featured in Neuroscience News @neurosciencenews.bsky.social !
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Two Dopamine Neuron Subtypes Process Smell in Different Ways - Neuroscience News
Closely related dopamine-releasing neurons in the olfactory bulb behave in fundamentally different ways depending on their physical structure.
neurosciencenews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Our paper is featured in Neuroscience News @neurosciencenews.bsky.social !
neurosciencenews.com/olfaction-do...
neurosciencenews.com/olfaction-do...
Nothing like a deadline just before the Christmas break
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ALT: a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face .
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Nothing like a deadline just before the Christmas break
Adaptations of the axon initial segment in fast-spiking interneurons of the human neocortex support low action potential thresholds
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Adaptations of the axon initial segment in fast-spiking interneurons of the human neocortex support low action potential thresholds
Across species, homologous neurons exhibit a range of distinct properties, while often filling a similar role in circuit dynamics. This cross-species study shows how specialized geometry and potassium...
journals.plos.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Adaptations of the axon initial segment in fast-spiking interneurons of the human neocortex support low action potential thresholds
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Fully-funded International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme🧠 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
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Research program spans systems/computational/theoretical/clinical/sensory/motor neuroscience, neuroethology, intelligence, and more!!
Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
Research program spans systems/computational/theoretical/clinical/sensory/motor neuroscience, neuroethology, intelligence, and more!!
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Fully-funded International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme🧠 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
Research program spans systems/computational/theoretical/clinical/sensory/motor neuroscience, neuroethology, intelligence, and more!!
Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
Research program spans systems/computational/theoretical/clinical/sensory/motor neuroscience, neuroethology, intelligence, and more!!
Here's the news piece from the IoPPN about our paper today! A wonderful way to end the year.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/structu...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/structu...
Structure of dopamine-releasing neurons relates to the type of circuits they form for smell-processing | King's College London
Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, depending on their physical structure.
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Here's the news piece from the IoPPN about our paper today! A wonderful way to end the year.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/structu...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/structu...
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Thanks @elife.bsky.social for highlighting the paper with our favourite picture!
Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Thanks @elife.bsky.social for highlighting the paper with our favourite picture!
Reposted by Ana Dorrego Rivas
Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses.
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buff.ly/Jr3RdzA
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses.
buff.ly/Jr3RdzA
buff.ly/Jr3RdzA
The Christmas party was very…Mah na Mah na 🕺🏻
December 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The Christmas party was very…Mah na Mah na 🕺🏻
And another year of my students smashing the poster presentation - they are the reason I keep up to date with the AIS literature!
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And another year of my students smashing the poster presentation - they are the reason I keep up to date with the AIS literature!
It's this Thursday! Register below 👇🏻
I’m giving a talk at the Cytoskeleton of Neurons & Glia seminar on Dec 11 (11am EST / 4pm UK)! I’ll chat about polarity in bulb DA neurons and what it means for release + self-inhibition.
Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉
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Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉
ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com/webinars/eve...
Ana Dorrego-rivas | Neuron Cytoskeleton
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December 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's this Thursday! Register below 👇🏻
From the Cajal exhibit at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Straight to the bulb!
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
From the Cajal exhibit at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Straight to the bulb!
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How does a couple of cells become a brain?
Join us on 12/9, 10-12pm PT for a webinar presenting the findings from 12 papers mapping brain development in new detail.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phxk87APQh-kgRYqp0jO5Q#/registration
Image: Jasiek Krzysztofiak/@nature.com
Join us on 12/9, 10-12pm PT for a webinar presenting the findings from 12 papers mapping brain development in new detail.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phxk87APQh-kgRYqp0jO5Q#/registration
Image: Jasiek Krzysztofiak/@nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
How does a couple of cells become a brain?
Join us on 12/9, 10-12pm PT for a webinar presenting the findings from 12 papers mapping brain development in new detail.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phxk87APQh-kgRYqp0jO5Q#/registration
Image: Jasiek Krzysztofiak/@nature.com
Join us on 12/9, 10-12pm PT for a webinar presenting the findings from 12 papers mapping brain development in new detail.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phxk87APQh-kgRYqp0jO5Q#/registration
Image: Jasiek Krzysztofiak/@nature.com
Sometimes one simply needs to succumb to the demands of their reward system
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Sometimes one simply needs to succumb to the demands of their reward system
Paper celebrations memorabilia 🍾🥂
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Paper celebrations memorabilia 🍾🥂
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We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
University Assistant/Associate Professor in Control Theory and Systems Biology
Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group
www.cam.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
A found a nice antibody - it needs antigen retrieval
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A found a nice antibody - it needs antigen retrieval
'Impaired AIS plasticity in ankyrin-G mutant mice alters cortical excitability and behavior'
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
'Impaired AIS plasticity in ankyrin-G mutant mice alters cortical excitability and behavior'
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Ana Dorrego Rivas
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Is this a rage bait?
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Is this a rage bait?