Isabella Wagner
@isabellacwagner.bsky.social
Assistant professor at University of Vienna • Cognitive neuroscience • Gut microbiome-brain interactions • Neuroimaging • Neural plasticity & memory • Aging & dementia
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✨My first first-author paper is out✨
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone @isabellacwagner.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone @isabellacwagner.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation
Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
✨My first first-author paper is out✨
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone @isabellacwagner.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone @isabellacwagner.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social
New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com by PhD candidate Luise Graichen ➡️ saccades 👁️are tied to grid-like codes 🕸️ in the entorhinal cortex 🧠during memory formation: rdcu.be/eLRm2
Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social
Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com by PhD candidate Luise Graichen ➡️ saccades 👁️are tied to grid-like codes 🕸️ in the entorhinal cortex 🧠during memory formation: rdcu.be/eLRm2
Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social
Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social
🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Final call to all Austrian microbiome researchers! Extended deadline for the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025 is June 10th! Submit your MSc/PhD thesis or paper to gain recognition. Find more info at microplanet.at. Don't miss out!
@fwf-at.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Final call to all Austrian microbiome researchers! Extended deadline for the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025 is June 10th! Submit your MSc/PhD thesis or paper to gain recognition. Find more info at microplanet.at. Don't miss out!
@fwf-at.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
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Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna!
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist
jobs.univie.ac.at
June 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna!
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
May 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
Excited to share our new study:
"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"
by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"
by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature
Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excited to share our new study:
"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"
by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"
by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 Come work with us!
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3y_PhDposition_univie_ScanUnit.pdf
shorturl.at
April 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🚨 Come work with us!
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
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We are looking for an excellent and highly motivated PhD student in Chemical Biology for a position in our group within the AIDD docfunds program @univie.ac.at to investigate anti-infectives from antagonistic microbial interactions. Apply until 03.05.2025:
vds-phanuspo.univie.ac.at/application/...
vds-phanuspo.univie.ac.at/application/...
April 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We are looking for an excellent and highly motivated PhD student in Chemical Biology for a position in our group within the AIDD docfunds program @univie.ac.at to investigate anti-infectives from antagonistic microbial interactions. Apply until 03.05.2025:
vds-phanuspo.univie.ac.at/application/...
vds-phanuspo.univie.ac.at/application/...
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease
https://go.nature.com/4cxFWPk
https://go.nature.com/4cxFWPk
Clinical trials test the safety of stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease
Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Two clinical trials show that it is safe, but more evidence is needed to prove its effectiveness.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease
https://go.nature.com/4cxFWPk
https://go.nature.com/4cxFWPk
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
Polyglot brains
A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
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April 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
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OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
March 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social
A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation
Memory consolidation is thought to rely on the interplay of sleep-related brain oscillations.
Drawing on recent findings that highlight the influence of respiration on these rhythms,
we outline a fram...
www.cell.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
March 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
www.science.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A new Master in Microbiome Science 🦠🧫🔬👨🎓 👩🎓🧑🎓 @univie.ac.at
Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025
studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...
#microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts
Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025
studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...
#microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts
March 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A new Master in Microbiome Science 🦠🧫🔬👨🎓 👩🎓🧑🎓 @univie.ac.at
Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025
studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...
#microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts
Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025
studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...
#microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts
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Reposted by Isabella Wagner
A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.
Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)
Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)
March 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.
Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)
Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)
New preprint together with Jingyuan Ren, @dresler.bsky.social and others on unique neural representations in one’s “memory palace” 🧠
Method of loci training yields unique neural representations that support effective memory encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.24.639840v1
March 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
New preprint together with Jingyuan Ren, @dresler.bsky.social and others on unique neural representations in one’s “memory palace” 🧠
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...
February 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
Updated from the preprint, our paper, "Spatiotemporal analysis of gene expression in the human dentate gyrus reveals age-associated changes in cellular maturation and neuroinflammation" is now published.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
February 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Updated from the preprint, our paper, "Spatiotemporal analysis of gene expression in the human dentate gyrus reveals age-associated changes in cellular maturation and neuroinflammation" is now published.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Reposted by Isabella Wagner
The Lancet, considered by some to be the world's leading medical journal (no, it is not a radical-Marxist-left-wing-rag), is living up to its well-deserved reputation and is not mincing words about the Musk administration's actions and their consequences: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
American chaos: standing up for health and medicine
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing
health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and
loans, jeopardising the function...
www.thelancet.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The Lancet, considered by some to be the world's leading medical journal (no, it is not a radical-Marxist-left-wing-rag), is living up to its well-deserved reputation and is not mincing words about the Musk administration's actions and their consequences: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...