Michael Drew
@michaeldrew.bsky.social
Neuroscientists: The lesion made by an optical fiber, electrode, or injector in the brain--is it a "track" (e.g., "fiber track") or a "tract"? I have my own opinion, but curious what others think.
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Neuroscientists: The lesion made by an optical fiber, electrode, or injector in the brain--is it a "track" (e.g., "fiber track") or a "tract"? I have my own opinion, but curious what others think.
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Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
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Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Thank you, Keri!
Thank you, Keri!
Congrats Michael! Really appreciate the brilliance & creativity you brought to the analyses and as always, sincere dedication to open science 🧪 🧠
@mictott.bsky.social is on the job market!! Amazing skillset spanning wet lab/computational at molecular, cellular + systems level - and across species!
@mictott.bsky.social is on the job market!! Amazing skillset spanning wet lab/computational at molecular, cellular + systems level - and across species!
Very excited to share my second postdoc, now out in Science Advances! We used targeted snRNA-seq to profile four major subnuclei of the primate across three species (including humans). 1/13 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Thank you, Keri!
Thank you, Keri!
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Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!
Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.
August 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!
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Had a blast writing this insight article with @sydneytrask.bsky.social covering original research from the @michaeldrew.bsky.social lab on the stress-specific recruitment of a brain region that drives fear behaviors!
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Behavioral Neuroscience: The consequences of stress on the brain and fear
A region of the brain called the paraventricular thalamus mediates the impact of stress on unlearned fear responses, but is not involved in learned fear behavior.
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Had a blast writing this insight article with @sydneytrask.bsky.social covering original research from the @michaeldrew.bsky.social lab on the stress-specific recruitment of a brain region that drives fear behaviors!
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
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rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
rdcu.be
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
1/n
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
1/n
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The Texas Science Festival began on Friday & we’ve already had fantastic fun at some exceptional events.
We’ve got lots more in the works, including 2 events tonight and 3 tomorrow.
Check out the full schedule at sciencefest.utexas.edu/events
#TexasScience #TexasScienceFestival #UTAustin
We’ve got lots more in the works, including 2 events tonight and 3 tomorrow.
Check out the full schedule at sciencefest.utexas.edu/events
#TexasScience #TexasScienceFestival #UTAustin
February 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Texas Science Festival began on Friday & we’ve already had fantastic fun at some exceptional events.
We’ve got lots more in the works, including 2 events tonight and 3 tomorrow.
Check out the full schedule at sciencefest.utexas.edu/events
#TexasScience #TexasScienceFestival #UTAustin
We’ve got lots more in the works, including 2 events tonight and 3 tomorrow.
Check out the full schedule at sciencefest.utexas.edu/events
#TexasScience #TexasScienceFestival #UTAustin
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Registration & Abstract Submission is open for the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at Trinity College Dublin in May.
Abstract deadline February 14.
#EngramsandEnsembles2025
Preliminary Agenda at event website:
event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...
Abstract deadline February 14.
#EngramsandEnsembles2025
Preliminary Agenda at event website:
event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...
November 22, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Registration & Abstract Submission is open for the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at Trinity College Dublin in May.
Abstract deadline February 14.
#EngramsandEnsembles2025
Preliminary Agenda at event website:
event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...
Abstract deadline February 14.
#EngramsandEnsembles2025
Preliminary Agenda at event website:
event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...
Excited that our paper with Hans Hofmann's lab is out!
Extinction training suppresses activity of fear memory ensembles across the hippocampus and alters transcriptomes of fear-encoding cells: t.co/K8d4jAhiKS
Extinction training suppresses activity of fear memory ensembles across the hippocampus and alters transcriptomes of fear-encoding cells: t.co/K8d4jAhiKS
https://rdcu.be/dKOrk
t.co
June 14, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Excited that our paper with Hans Hofmann's lab is out!
Extinction training suppresses activity of fear memory ensembles across the hippocampus and alters transcriptomes of fear-encoding cells: t.co/K8d4jAhiKS
Extinction training suppresses activity of fear memory ensembles across the hippocampus and alters transcriptomes of fear-encoding cells: t.co/K8d4jAhiKS
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Why do sublinear response summation and quenching of shared variability tend to co-occur in cortex? We review phenomenological, normative, and circuit explanations. With Robbe Goris, Ruben Coen-Cagli, Nick Priebe, & Mate Lengyel. rdcu.be/dy1q5
🧪 #neuroskyence
🧪 #neuroskyence
Response sub-additivity and variability quenching in visual cortex
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Sub-additive responses to simultaneously presented stimuli and quenching of variability in responses to repeated presentations of a stimulus are characteristics of...
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February 20, 2024 at 4:40 AM
Why do sublinear response summation and quenching of shared variability tend to co-occur in cortex? We review phenomenological, normative, and circuit explanations. With Robbe Goris, Ruben Coen-Cagli, Nick Priebe, & Mate Lengyel. rdcu.be/dy1q5
🧪 #neuroskyence
🧪 #neuroskyence
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Having health insurance in the US means that you now have a part-time job haggling with your insurance company & advocating for your own healthcare. To that end, here's a tool that can help with filing claims to contest denial of coverage, created by the nonprofit newsroom @propublica.bsky.social
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file...
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November 9, 2023 at 1:05 PM
Having health insurance in the US means that you now have a part-time job haggling with your insurance company & advocating for your own healthcare. To that end, here's a tool that can help with filing claims to contest denial of coverage, created by the nonprofit newsroom @propublica.bsky.social
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#Pavlovian2024 will be held from September 26-28 in Indianapolis! If you are interested in organizing a symposium, please complete this form: forms.gle/4QNv1TGBeHuf... Proposals are due 1/26/24 at 5 pm ET. Proposed speakers should be confirmed at time of submission. pavlovian.org
November 17, 2023 at 2:45 PM
#Pavlovian2024 will be held from September 26-28 in Indianapolis! If you are interested in organizing a symposium, please complete this form: forms.gle/4QNv1TGBeHuf... Proposals are due 1/26/24 at 5 pm ET. Proposed speakers should be confirmed at time of submission. pavlovian.org