Herbert Wu
herbertwu.bsky.social
Herbert Wu
@herbertwu.bsky.social
Neuroscience Professor at Mount Sinai, into the science of squad goals.
https://www.wulab.bio/
Thanks so much for the generous support from @sinaibrain.bsky.social and the Glickenhaus Family!
👏 A huge congratulations to Drs. @herbertwu.bsky.social and Sai Ma for receiving the 2025 Glickenhaus Research Scholar Award.🎉

Here, they discuss their work, "Neural Activity-Dependent Regulation of Transcriptomic Landscape: A Novel Approach to #Addiction". 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN9W...
2025 FBI Research Scholars - Herbert Wu and Sai Ma
YouTube video by Icahn School of Medicine
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September 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Fascinating! The use of social gaze seems quite complicated in these cooperating marmosets
Super excited to share this new collaborative work - marmosets use diverse and highly flexible strategies when they cooperate. These strategies are powerfully determined by both social factors (sex, dominance, familiarity) & individual partner identity.

www.cell.com/current-biol...
Diverse and flexible strategies enable successful cooperation in marmoset dyads
Meisner and Shi et al. show that common marmosets flexibly coordinate with partners using both gaze-dependent and rhythmic strategies. Cooperation depends on active social monitoring and is shaped by ...
www.cell.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by Herbert Wu
Very excited to announce our latest paper uncovering circuit, cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of social hierarchy, another terrific collaboration with @neurovenki.bsky.social, Vic Kapoor and Adam Nelson (not on bsky) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM