Good morning everyone! Suitably following the #dopamine dinner, we have our #dopamine symposium at 9:30am in SDCC room 6B!

‘Beyond Value: Non-canonical roles for dopamine in aversion and reward’

Come join us! 🧠 🧪

Pretty special dinner @sfn.org with these glorious women last night 🤩 ❤️

How do I have a job where I travel around the world and hang out with awesome people?

@moriel-z.bsky.social @denisejcai.bsky.social @ladenardo.bsky.social @neurrriot.bsky.social @bjmarlin.bsky.social @debiaselm.bsky.social

Full house for @earlkmiller.bsky.social’s Presidential Lecture @sfn.org tonight! I had to sneak in 🤫 inspiring to hear about the amazing work that drove my PhD thesis and so much more beyond 🤩

Folks the Sharpe Lab are in the house for @sfn.org! 🎉 Come check out our talks and posters. We’ve been doing some cool stuff down under 🇦🇺 on dopamine, reinforcement learning, and remapping of the fear circuit. 🧠 🧪

Hosting the Pavlovian society annual meeting in SYDNEY was the highlight of my career! Thanks to all who came from near and far to present their awesome science. Looking forward to 2026 in Montreal. Come and join us!

My first GRC amygdala in Barcelona hosted by @katewassum.bsky.social did not disappoint! Can’t wait for the next one with @joserodroma.bsky.social and @annabeyerle.bsky.social! ☀️🕶️🌴🌊

One of the most epic trips of my life! Joshua Tree retreat with 11 of the most inspirational neuroscientists I know!

Thx to Moriel Z and Bianca JM for organizing. And featuring Michelin star chef and yoga instructor @denisejcai.bsky.social

Forever grateful for this crew

Until next year ❤️

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🚨LAST DAY to submit poster abstracts for the PAVLOVIAN 2025 annual meeting 🚨

Check out our 🔥 program and submit abstracts in the link below, with 5 travel awards available for students and postdocs! 🧠

Big news from the lab this week! Successfully recorded lateral hypothalamic GABA neurons in freely moving rats using single-unit calcium imaging ! Led by a phenomenal postdoc in the lab, Jess Leake.

And just in time for that grant deadline 🔥 🧠

Kill me.

… and of course I’m on a grant deadline 😭

Been pinning up my favorite papers from the lab 🧪 that we’ve published since we got to Sydney 🇦🇺 ☀️

Going to have to take down the pics of my kid soon 😉 🧠

Don’t forget to submit your data blitz or poster abstracts for PAVLOVIAN in SYDNEY!🧪🧠

Due April 11th, including 5 x travel awards to help our buddies from the 🇺🇸 and elsewhere get to 🇦🇺

Our line up is 🔥 Check out our website, registration, and hotel block below 👇

Had one of the best conferences ever at #wcbr2025. Too much fun seeing everyone (last night’s dance floor was 🔥), hearing about all the awesome science, and being in one of the most beautiful places we’ve ever been. Can’t wait for Big Sky next year 😍

Not a bad spot for a conference (winter 🧠 in Tahoe) 🧪

🔥PAVLOVIAN 2025 will be in Sydney, Australia: August 7-10 🔥

To complement our already budding program, submit an abstract for an individual talk here: forms.gle/KJ2uBnMMkprf...

Due Jan 31, 2024

We will have a separate call for posters and the ECR data blitz. Stay tuned.