@dgordonwinder.bsky.social
Chair, Department of Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School. Views my own.
Really impressive work. Congrats to all!
A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, in Cell explains how cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input to remodel synapses: direc.to/nJHH
Alzheimer’s and ALS patients have synaptic damage.
@travisfaust.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social
Alzheimer’s and ALS patients have synaptic damage.
@travisfaust.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social
UMass Chan scientists show how the non-neuronal brain cells communicate to coordinate rewiring of brain
A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, explains how two different cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input.
direc.to
October 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Really impressive work. Congrats to all!
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Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social:
“Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.”
This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Faust et al., Cell 2025
“Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.”
This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Faust et al., Cell 2025
September 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social:
“Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.”
This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Faust et al., Cell 2025
“Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.”
This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Faust et al., Cell 2025
IFYKYK New England Addiction Neuroscience Conference Attendees! Impeccable LLM rendering of NEAN registrant locations. NEAN25 was great, look forward to seeing what's next!
August 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
IFYKYK New England Addiction Neuroscience Conference Attendees! Impeccable LLM rendering of NEAN registrant locations. NEAN25 was great, look forward to seeing what's next!
Such an awesome day, and so fun to see @karlakaun.bsky.social's brainchild become a reality!
And that's a wrap! I had a ton of fun at the inaugural New England Addiction Neuroscience Research Conference Friday and am looking forward to seeing everyone next year, if not sooner! newenglandaddictionconsortium.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
August 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Such an awesome day, and so fun to see @karlakaun.bsky.social's brainchild become a reality!
Congrats Samara!
Go @SamaraVilca! @wellcometrust.bsky.social
@umasspsychiatry.bsky.social
@umasschanneuro.bsky.social @umasschan.bsky.social
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@umasspsychiatry.bsky.social
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Samara Vilca receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund postdoc diversity enrichment award
Samara Vilca, PhD, is one of 30 postdoctoral researchers in the country to be selected to receive the award.
www.umassmed.edu
August 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Congrats Samara!
Congrats Tara!
Tara Delorme, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Ryan Logan, PhD, is one of 14 researchers from Quebec working in the U.S. to be honored by the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé: direc.to/n1KM
#opiod #addiction #communautéFRQ @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social @wickedneuro.bsky.social
#opiod #addiction #communautéFRQ @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social @wickedneuro.bsky.social
UMass Chan postdoc receives competitive award from Quebec research foundation
Tara Delorme, PhD, received a $110,000 award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
direc.to
August 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Congrats Tara!
Coming up in just a few weeks! @karlakaun.bsky.social and colleagues have great things in store. Prizes available for trainee presentations. Spots are still available, so please consider attending! Looking forward to chatting about growing and connecting addiction neuroscience in the area.
Calling local addiction neuroscientists! I'm excited to be involved in @karlakaun.bsky.social's great brain child, this year's New England Addiction Neuroscience Conference, to be held on the Brown campus August 15th. Hope to see you there! See attached flyer for details and registration.
July 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Coming up in just a few weeks! @karlakaun.bsky.social and colleagues have great things in store. Prizes available for trainee presentations. Spots are still available, so please consider attending! Looking forward to chatting about growing and connecting addiction neuroscience in the area.
Calling local addiction neuroscientists! I'm excited to be involved in @karlakaun.bsky.social's great brain child, this year's New England Addiction Neuroscience Conference, to be held on the Brown campus August 15th. Hope to see you there! See attached flyer for details and registration.
June 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Calling local addiction neuroscientists! I'm excited to be involved in @karlakaun.bsky.social's great brain child, this year's New England Addiction Neuroscience Conference, to be held on the Brown campus August 15th. Hope to see you there! See attached flyer for details and registration.
Congrats to @mariedoyle.bsky.social for winning #RSA2025 Gordis preclinical postdoc award! She is a great scientist and person doing exciting work.
June 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Congrats to @mariedoyle.bsky.social for winning #RSA2025 Gordis preclinical postdoc award! She is a great scientist and person doing exciting work.
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Subgroups of anxiety and depression trajectories during early abstinence in alcohol use disorder onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Subgroups of anxiety and depression trajectories during early abstinence in alcohol use disorder onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I'm a little late to the game, but I'm happy to announce that our paper with my @umasschan.bsky.social colleagues in the Travis Thomson lab has now been published in @plosbiology.org! Thanks to all involved on this fun collaboration!
#Transposons are parasitic genetic elements that act as raw material for evolution of new functions. @briankelch.bsky.social &co show that the capsid of the #virus-derived retrotransposon Copia mediates synaptic plasticity at the #Drosophila neuromuscular junction 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3X71IDa
April 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I'm a little late to the game, but I'm happy to announce that our paper with my @umasschan.bsky.social colleagues in the Travis Thomson lab has now been published in @plosbiology.org! Thanks to all involved on this fun collaboration!
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The lightsheet is finally here! #fluorescencefriday #newpi
February 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The lightsheet is finally here! #fluorescencefriday #newpi
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I chatted with a program director at NIH for a half hour just now
It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment
They deserve our respect and gratitude
It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment
They deserve our respect and gratitude
February 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I chatted with a program director at NIH for a half hour just now
It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment
They deserve our respect and gratitude
It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment
They deserve our respect and gratitude
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Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶
February 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶
Agreed! POs/SROs/GMSs all do critically important work in support of biomedical research! They deserve to know scientists understand their importance in generating an effective scientific research community.
January 29 is now PO / SRO appreciation day in my book.
In case I need to say it, today is a good day to drop an email to your fav PO or SRO and let them know you appreciate them.
January 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Agreed! POs/SROs/GMSs all do critically important work in support of biomedical research! They deserve to know scientists understand their importance in generating an effective scientific research community.
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If you are at Winter Brain, stop by my poster tomorrow! Especially if you are interested learning about a motor pathway that might help us understand how exercise influences affective states! #wcbr2025
January 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If you are at Winter Brain, stop by my poster tomorrow! Especially if you are interested learning about a motor pathway that might help us understand how exercise influences affective states! #wcbr2025
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Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community. Interested in what the lab is working on? Instead of spending an hour perfecting/overthinking my first post, here's something even better: our lab's very first preprint! Just uploaded to @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A stress-activated mid-insula to BNST pathway regulates susceptibility to abstinence-induced negative affect in female mice
Stress is central to many neuropsychiatric conditions, including alcohol use disorder (AUD). Stress influences the initiation and continued use of alcohol, the progression to AUD, and relapse. Identif...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community. Interested in what the lab is working on? Instead of spending an hour perfecting/overthinking my first post, here's something even better: our lab's very first preprint! Just uploaded to @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Great work by @nickpetersen.bsky.social and colleagues. Was a fun collaboration that we are looking forward to continuing!
I’m pumped to share that our new paper in Biological Psychiatry is out! We dissected a novel astrocyte-neuron interaction in the ventral periaqueductal gray (vPAG) that maintains wakefulness involving norepinephrine and dopamine neurons🧵: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
Adenosine A2A Receptors Link Astrocytic α1-Adrenergic Signaling to Wake-Promoting Dopamine Neurons
Sleep and arousal disorders are common, but the underlying physiology of wakefulness
is not fully understood. The locus coeruleus promotes arousal via α1-adrenergic receptor
(α1AR)–driven recruitment ...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Great work by @nickpetersen.bsky.social and colleagues. Was a fun collaboration that we are looking forward to continuing!
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The 2026 Alcohol and the Nervous System GRC will be held Feb 22-27 at the Four Points Sheraton/Holiday Inn Express in Ventura, California. The GRS will be Feb 21-22. Please share! #AlcoholGRC2026 #AlcoholGRS2026
December 12, 2024 at 8:00 PM
The 2026 Alcohol and the Nervous System GRC will be held Feb 22-27 at the Four Points Sheraton/Holiday Inn Express in Ventura, California. The GRS will be Feb 21-22. Please share! #AlcoholGRC2026 #AlcoholGRS2026
Very exciting opportunity!
Exciting UNC Job News: We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a new cross-disciplinary team that will advance substance use disorder (SUD) treatment from the bench to the bedside.
November 21, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Very exciting opportunity!
My lab is recruiting at the postdoc and graduate student levels in the Department of Neurobiology at UMass Chan in wonderful new facilities. Come join us!
November 13, 2024 at 12:15 PM
My lab is recruiting at the postdoc and graduate student levels in the Department of Neurobiology at UMass Chan in wonderful new facilities. Come join us!