Aiste Baleisyte
@baseliu.bsky.social
Kavli NSI Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rockefeller University, Friedman lab | PhD from EPFL | fascinated by neuroscience of food | occasional jazz singer
I am so thrilled to have been awarded the Kavli NSI Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue my research on the neural circuits of food intake control in the Friedman Lab.
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July 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am so thrilled to have been awarded the Kavli NSI Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue my research on the neural circuits of food intake control in the Friedman Lab.
@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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In this @natmed.nature.com piece, Rockefeller's Jeffrey Friedman recalls the heady excitement when his group discovered leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite.
A new hormone arrives in the middle of the night - Nature Medicine
Jeffrey Friedman recalls the heady excitement when his group discovered leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite.
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In this @natmed.nature.com piece, Rockefeller's Jeffrey Friedman recalls the heady excitement when his group discovered leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite.
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1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance?
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance?
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
led by @jrbch.bsky.social
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Have you ever used a genetic tool and wondered what transcriptomic cell types it actually labels in the brain? Now is your chance to help solve this problem, through our MapMySections data challenge!
🧠📈 Submit your algorithm by May 30. alleninstitute.org/events/mapmy...
🧠📈 Submit your algorithm by May 30. alleninstitute.org/events/mapmy...
MapMySections - Data Challenge
How do firing properties of a cell relate to its molecular cell type? We are seeking tools that can map spikes to brain cell types and visualize the results alongside existing knowledge.
alleninstitute.org
May 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Have you ever used a genetic tool and wondered what transcriptomic cell types it actually labels in the brain? Now is your chance to help solve this problem, through our MapMySections data challenge!
🧠📈 Submit your algorithm by May 30. alleninstitute.org/events/mapmy...
🧠📈 Submit your algorithm by May 30. alleninstitute.org/events/mapmy...
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We are looking for a new PhD student to join our lab of Neuroepigenetics at EPFL! Interested in deciphering the epigenetic mechanisms of memory formation, storage and change?🧠🧬Check out the specifics here: graefflab.epfl.ch
Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics
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graefflab.epfl.ch
March 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We are looking for a new PhD student to join our lab of Neuroepigenetics at EPFL! Interested in deciphering the epigenetic mechanisms of memory formation, storage and change?🧠🧬Check out the specifics here: graefflab.epfl.ch
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Second, the group of Ralf Schneggenburger shows that a brain pathway from the posterior insula to the lateral amygdala transmits information that contributes to specific aspects of learning in response to fear - doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
February 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Second, the group of Ralf Schneggenburger shows that a brain pathway from the posterior insula to the lateral amygdala transmits information that contributes to specific aspects of learning in response to fear - doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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1/4 I am very pleased to share this new manuscript, “A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in
shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromanonyc.bsky.social
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromanonyc.bsky.social
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters - Nature
The posterolateral cortical amygdala and other connected brain regions have a key role in mediating the transition from investigative to aggressive behaviour in male mice.
www.nature.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
1/4 I am very pleased to share this new manuscript, “A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in
shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromanonyc.bsky.social
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromanonyc.bsky.social
Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Once you finish experiments late, go outside and campus is full of snow! The beauty of nature in the middle of Manhattan.
Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM
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Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM
@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Once you finish experiments late, go outside and campus is full of snow! The beauty of nature in the middle of Manhattan.
Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM
@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM
@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of
Neuropixels Opto
Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Today in bioRxiv
960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors
By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/2)
Neuropixels Opto
Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Today in bioRxiv
960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors
By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of
Neuropixels Opto
Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Today in bioRxiv
960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors
By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/2)
Neuropixels Opto
Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Today in bioRxiv
960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors
By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/2)
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Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Really proud to start the year by sharing our new review in @endosocjournals.bsky.social on the roles of GLP-1 in eating and obesity treatment, led by superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social!
academic.oup.com/endo/article...
🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic
academic.oup.com/endo/article...
🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic
GLP-1 and the Neurobiology of Eating Control: Recent Advances
Abstract. Obesity is now considered a chronic relapsing progressive disease, associated with increased all-cause mortality that scales with body weight, af
academic.oup.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Really proud to start the year by sharing our new review in @endosocjournals.bsky.social on the roles of GLP-1 in eating and obesity treatment, led by superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social!
academic.oup.com/endo/article...
🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic
academic.oup.com/endo/article...
🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic
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This month, a phase 3 trial of tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) found that it reduced the chances of developing type 2 diabetes by around 90% (!), among people with obesity and pre-diabetes.
That's a reduction if I ever saw one.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
That's a reduction if I ever saw one.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 26, 2024 at 12:11 PM
This month, a phase 3 trial of tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) found that it reduced the chances of developing type 2 diabetes by around 90% (!), among people with obesity and pre-diabetes.
That's a reduction if I ever saw one.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
That's a reduction if I ever saw one.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....