Zachary Zeidler
@brainofzedzed.bsky.social
Neuro Postdoc @ UCLA in DeNardo Lab ||
Exploring how time-driven circuit dynamics craft memory and its vulnerabilities
PFC | cortex | hippocampus | fear memory | learning | (cortical) dopamine
Exploring how time-driven circuit dynamics craft memory and its vulnerabilities
PFC | cortex | hippocampus | fear memory | learning | (cortical) dopamine
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The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:
October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:
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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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#resourceshelp Please repost 🙏🏽
I am looking for a list of (recommended) online courses in #computational #neuroscience that offer a #certification. Ideally, the focus of those courses would be systems and networks rather than single-cell modeling.
(I know of the 2 courses offered by Neuromatch)
I am looking for a list of (recommended) online courses in #computational #neuroscience that offer a #certification. Ideally, the focus of those courses would be systems and networks rather than single-cell modeling.
(I know of the 2 courses offered by Neuromatch)
August 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
#resourceshelp Please repost 🙏🏽
I am looking for a list of (recommended) online courses in #computational #neuroscience that offer a #certification. Ideally, the focus of those courses would be systems and networks rather than single-cell modeling.
(I know of the 2 courses offered by Neuromatch)
I am looking for a list of (recommended) online courses in #computational #neuroscience that offer a #certification. Ideally, the focus of those courses would be systems and networks rather than single-cell modeling.
(I know of the 2 courses offered by Neuromatch)
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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
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Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
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April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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This damage will be irreparable. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/prop...
Proposed NIH budget cut threatens ‘massive destruction of American science’
A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This damage will be irreparable. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/prop...
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Our new paper is out in Science.
What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons.
Congrats Jake!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons.
Congrats Jake!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning
Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...
www.science.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Our new paper is out in Science.
What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons.
Congrats Jake!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons.
Congrats Jake!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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PREPRINT🚨Ever wonder how electrical⚡️ stimulation of the brain🧠modulates neuronal activity? Are you working with brain stim and variability makes you want to smash your pc and go to a mountain to grow tomatoes? Are you a family member or a friend who really appreciate me? 1/13
a man in a red shirt and black gloves is holding a box with the word success on it
ALT: a man in a red shirt and black gloves is holding a box with the word success on it
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April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
PREPRINT🚨Ever wonder how electrical⚡️ stimulation of the brain🧠modulates neuronal activity? Are you working with brain stim and variability makes you want to smash your pc and go to a mountain to grow tomatoes? Are you a family member or a friend who really appreciate me? 1/13
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Hey SUFS Community!
If you fall into one of the following categories and are willing to talk to press (on or off the record), please comment/DM us:
1. Had a funded grant revoked
2. Are considering moving abroad to continue your research
3. Have been impacted by the stoppage of a clinical trial
If you fall into one of the following categories and are willing to talk to press (on or off the record), please comment/DM us:
1. Had a funded grant revoked
2. Are considering moving abroad to continue your research
3. Have been impacted by the stoppage of a clinical trial
March 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hey SUFS Community!
If you fall into one of the following categories and are willing to talk to press (on or off the record), please comment/DM us:
1. Had a funded grant revoked
2. Are considering moving abroad to continue your research
3. Have been impacted by the stoppage of a clinical trial
If you fall into one of the following categories and are willing to talk to press (on or off the record), please comment/DM us:
1. Had a funded grant revoked
2. Are considering moving abroad to continue your research
3. Have been impacted by the stoppage of a clinical trial
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Two cool papers out in Neuron today on memory.
1. Animals can be trained to activate specific remote memories at will:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
2. Interactions between cortex and amygdala during reactivation in NREM sleep help enhance perceptual memories:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 🧪
1. Animals can be trained to activate specific remote memories at will:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
2. Interactions between cortex and amygdala during reactivation in NREM sleep help enhance perceptual memories:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 🧪
Closed-loop modulation of remote hippocampal representations with neurofeedback
Animal models of memory retrieval trigger retrieval with cues and measure retrieval
using behavior. Coulter et al. developed a neurofeedback paradigm that rewards hippocampal
activity patterns associa...
www.cell.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Two cool papers out in Neuron today on memory.
1. Animals can be trained to activate specific remote memories at will:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
2. Interactions between cortex and amygdala during reactivation in NREM sleep help enhance perceptual memories:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 🧪
1. Animals can be trained to activate specific remote memories at will:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
2. Interactions between cortex and amygdala during reactivation in NREM sleep help enhance perceptual memories:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 🧪
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The Oldenburg Lab is looking for another postdoc! The news these days is scary but we're pushing on.
If you want to use Holographic Optogenetics to understand neural codes, the motor system, or something else fun let me know. We have federal and non-federal (aka stable) funds.
oldenburglab.com
If you want to use Holographic Optogenetics to understand neural codes, the motor system, or something else fun let me know. We have federal and non-federal (aka stable) funds.
oldenburglab.com
Oldenburg Lab
Decoding the motor system through the use of multiphoton holographic optogenetics.
oldenburglab.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Oldenburg Lab is looking for another postdoc! The news these days is scary but we're pushing on.
If you want to use Holographic Optogenetics to understand neural codes, the motor system, or something else fun let me know. We have federal and non-federal (aka stable) funds.
oldenburglab.com
If you want to use Holographic Optogenetics to understand neural codes, the motor system, or something else fun let me know. We have federal and non-federal (aka stable) funds.
oldenburglab.com
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We had a lot of fun featuring beautiful new work from Laura DeNardo's lab in which they revealed prefrontal ensemble activity transformations underlying rapid threat avoidance learning! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Original paper published in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Original paper published in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Threat learning: Avoiding danger in the first place
While the ability of an animal to rapidly learn to detect and avoid threats is critical
for survival, previous research has focused on post-learning time periods. A new computational
study now reveals...
www.cell.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We had a lot of fun featuring beautiful new work from Laura DeNardo's lab in which they revealed prefrontal ensemble activity transformations underlying rapid threat avoidance learning! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Original paper published in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Original paper published in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Out of the lab, into the streets!
March 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Out of the lab, into the streets!
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New newsletter alert! We're relaunching Null and Noteworthy, a monthly roundup about null results and replications in neuroscience research. This month: A failed replication of a potential schizophrenia biomarker.
By Laura Dattaro
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...
By Laura Dattaro
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...
Null and Noteworthy, relaunched: Probing a schizophrenia biomarker
This edition of Null and Noteworthy—the first for The Transmitter—highlights new findings about the auditory steady-state response in people with schizophrenia that, all within one study…
www.thetransmitter.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New newsletter alert! We're relaunching Null and Noteworthy, a monthly roundup about null results and replications in neuroscience research. This month: A failed replication of a potential schizophrenia biomarker.
By Laura Dattaro
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...
By Laura Dattaro
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...
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🔥 PAVLOVIAN 2025 UPDATE 🔥
Call for Posters, Data Blitz, and Travel Awards for the SYDNEY Pavlovian Society meeting in Aug 7th-10th is open 🧠 🧪
We have 5 x US$1,000 in travel awards to support trainees!
Check out our 🔥 hotel, line up of speakers, and APPLY here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
Call for Posters, Data Blitz, and Travel Awards for the SYDNEY Pavlovian Society meeting in Aug 7th-10th is open 🧠 🧪
We have 5 x US$1,000 in travel awards to support trainees!
Check out our 🔥 hotel, line up of speakers, and APPLY here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
Upcoming Meeting — Pavlovian Society
pavlovian.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🔥 PAVLOVIAN 2025 UPDATE 🔥
Call for Posters, Data Blitz, and Travel Awards for the SYDNEY Pavlovian Society meeting in Aug 7th-10th is open 🧠 🧪
We have 5 x US$1,000 in travel awards to support trainees!
Check out our 🔥 hotel, line up of speakers, and APPLY here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
Call for Posters, Data Blitz, and Travel Awards for the SYDNEY Pavlovian Society meeting in Aug 7th-10th is open 🧠 🧪
We have 5 x US$1,000 in travel awards to support trainees!
Check out our 🔥 hotel, line up of speakers, and APPLY here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
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This is an excellent thread summarizing many of my own objections. I’d like to add two thoughts: 🧵 1/n
There's a movement in neuroscience suggesting we should be pursuing bigger bets with larger teams. I think there's a case for doing a bit of this, but I think it's a bad idea to prioritise it for two reasons, and a good case for saying we should be moving in the exact opposite direction. 🧠🧪
December 18, 2024 at 5:40 PM
This is an excellent thread summarizing many of my own objections. I’d like to add two thoughts: 🧵 1/n
Important read for anyone looking at stress vulnerability and limbic systems! Congrats to @zachtpennington.bluesky.social on this comprehensive work
❓ Do you know what the anterior hypothalamic nucleus (AHN) does? No? Neither did we! 🧠
In a new preprint from the Cai Lab, learn how we discovered the AHN’s central role in regulating stress vulnerability.
Read the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
In a new preprint from the Cai Lab, learn how we discovered the AHN’s central role in regulating stress vulnerability.
Read the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
November 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Important read for anyone looking at stress vulnerability and limbic systems! Congrats to @zachtpennington.bluesky.social on this comprehensive work
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Important paper!
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
www.biorxiv.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Important paper!
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
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Just put together the beginnings of a systems & behavior neuro starter pack (focus on rodent work) - obviously a lot of people missing, and most included are in my own little bubble, so if you want to be added do reply here! go.bsky.app/Hxpe53o
November 10, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Just put together the beginnings of a systems & behavior neuro starter pack (focus on rodent work) - obviously a lot of people missing, and most included are in my own little bubble, so if you want to be added do reply here! go.bsky.app/Hxpe53o
Grateful to be nominated for the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research! Overwhelmed by the quality of research and postdocs in my field, let alone across all disciplines. Love being surrounded by so many dedicated people
November 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Grateful to be nominated for the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research! Overwhelmed by the quality of research and postdocs in my field, let alone across all disciplines. Love being surrounded by so many dedicated people
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me writing academic emails after reading Jane Austen:
I trust that you and your graduate students remain in good health. I have not the smallest wish to vex you, but I find I must trouble you for a meeting. I flatter myself that you will endeavour to fill out this Whenisgood poll before Michaelmas.
I trust that you and your graduate students remain in good health. I have not the smallest wish to vex you, but I find I must trouble you for a meeting. I flatter myself that you will endeavour to fill out this Whenisgood poll before Michaelmas.
September 9, 2023 at 2:44 PM
me writing academic emails after reading Jane Austen:
I trust that you and your graduate students remain in good health. I have not the smallest wish to vex you, but I find I must trouble you for a meeting. I flatter myself that you will endeavour to fill out this Whenisgood poll before Michaelmas.
I trust that you and your graduate students remain in good health. I have not the smallest wish to vex you, but I find I must trouble you for a meeting. I flatter myself that you will endeavour to fill out this Whenisgood poll before Michaelmas.
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There is an absolute treasure over on elephant app of a November 2019 conversation between Lynn Nadel and Brenda Milner. neuromatch.social/@nadel/11124... #neuroskyence
Lynn Nadel (@nadel@neuromatch.social)
In November 2019 I attended the meeting of the Psychonomics Society in Montreal, and took the opportunity to arrange an interview with Brenda Milner, for my history project. When I arrived at the Mon...
neuromatch.social
October 15, 2023 at 6:45 PM
There is an absolute treasure over on elephant app of a November 2019 conversation between Lynn Nadel and Brenda Milner. neuromatch.social/@nadel/11124... #neuroskyence
Major work for the cerebellar field!
Mesoscale Ca2+ imaging reveals networks of Purkinje cell dendritic and somatic modulation, with divergent roles of activity versus correlation during behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.05.561090v1
Mesoscale Ca2+ imaging reveals networks of Purkinje cell dendritic and somatic modulation, with divergent roles of activity versus correlation during behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.05.561090v1
A major challenge in cerebellar physiology is determining how the stereotypic, conserved circuitry o
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Major work for the cerebellar field!
Introduce yourself with some previous jobs:
- roofing sales
- medical transcriptionist
- call center tech support
- trail maintenance
- resident hall advisor
- roofing sales
- medical transcriptionist
- call center tech support
- trail maintenance
- resident hall advisor
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
-tropical fish store assistant
-pet sitter
-private French horn lesson teacher
-little league softball umpire
-Bath and Body Works cashier
-piano/organ concert page turner
-insurance claims photographer
-assistant zookeeper
-tropical fish store assistant
-pet sitter
-private French horn lesson teacher
-little league softball umpire
-Bath and Body Works cashier
-piano/organ concert page turner
-insurance claims photographer
-assistant zookeeper
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
- waitress
- florist
- flower picker
- crisis telephone cousellor
- waitress
- florist
- flower picker
- crisis telephone cousellor
September 24, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Introduce yourself with some previous jobs:
- roofing sales
- medical transcriptionist
- call center tech support
- trail maintenance
- resident hall advisor
- roofing sales
- medical transcriptionist
- call center tech support
- trail maintenance
- resident hall advisor
Hit a postdoc milestone today. Did surgery on ‘ZZ200’, the 200th mouse of this project.
You get a faculty position at mouse 250, right?😅
You get a faculty position at mouse 250, right?😅
September 12, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Hit a postdoc milestone today. Did surgery on ‘ZZ200’, the 200th mouse of this project.
You get a faculty position at mouse 250, right?😅
You get a faculty position at mouse 250, right?😅
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The NIH has posted a list of what Program Officers cannot do for individual applicant PIs. It's true and it's not true and this whole business pisses me off.
nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2023/09/...
nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2023/09/...
Understanding What Program Officials Can and Can’t Do for You
NIH Program Officials (POs) are responsible for the programmatic, scientific, and technical aspects of NIH programs. Having a clear understanding of what POs can and can’t do for you will help you m...
nexus.od.nih.gov
September 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM
The NIH has posted a list of what Program Officers cannot do for individual applicant PIs. It's true and it's not true and this whole business pisses me off.
nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2023/09/...
nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2023/09/...