Susanna Molas
banner
molaslab.bsky.social
Susanna Molas
@molaslab.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Dept. Psychology & Neuroscience, CU Boulder
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Genetics
Systems Neuroscience, Behavior
https://sites.google.com/view/molaslab/home
Reposted by Susanna Molas
Hiring: Research Technician and Postdoctoral opportunities!
My lab is looking for candidates to join or research in systems neuroscience at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago @uofilsystem.bsky.social. See details below. Please share! lujanlabuic.squarespace.com/joinus
June 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🎊So excited to share our new publication! We identified a novel circuit underlying threat processing and adaptive learning. Deeply grateful to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social and all the co-authors who made this possible! @ibg.colorado.edu @umasschan.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Such a pleasure to have Moriel Zelikowsky visit us at CU Boulder! An incredible scientist and amazing person! Looking forward to connect again soon!
April 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🚨 Last Days to Apply! Submit your application for the postdoctoral position in my lab! We'll be starting interviews very soon!
If you have any questions or want to learn more about the position, feel free to reach out — happy to chat!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Postdoctoral Associate in Neural Circuits of Threat Processing
jobs.colorado.edu
April 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
ACNP Travel Award Submissions open on Thursday, March 31, 2025. For more information, visit https://t.co/zSCC9OJZ51 #ACNP2026 #travelawards
March 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
🧪🧠2 weeks left for EARLY bird registration!
Neurobiology of social behaviors meeting- ESC Coimbra 2025!

Join us in Coimbra (Portugal) for intense discussions and exciting science on Social Neuroscience.
esc-coimbra2025.cnc.uc.pt
March 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨Hiring Alert: Postdoctoral Opportunity!🚨 My lab is looking for a passionate postdoc to join our research in systems neuroscience @colorado.edu @ibg.colorado.edu. See details below. Please share!
sites.google.com/view/molaslab
#Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity #SystemsNeuroscience
March 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
Good science and amazing discussions in the I Meeting of the Spanish Network of the Stress Research 🤩
#REIS
#Bilbao
#UPV
#Grenec-Neurobio
#UPF
January 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Dear #WCBR2025 attendees: Don’t miss the presentation by my graduate student, Elora Williams - WCBR Travel Awardee. She’s an outstanding presenter and will be sharing new data on OUD. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated! @ibg.colorado.edu
January 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
Anyone who studies schizophrenia or major depression want to give a talk on Sunday at #WCBR2025? We have unexpectedly had a speaker drop out. It’s a great opportunity!
January 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
Our Perspective article on the neuroscience of addiction remission will appear in the February 2025 issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Kudos to first author Michel Engeln who did all the heavy lifting!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
And today, happy to share the second preprint from the lab: Projecting neurons from lateral entorhinal cortex to basolateral amygdala mediate the encoding of incidental odor-taste associations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Projecting neurons from lateral entorhinal cortex to basolateral amygdala mediate the encoding of incidental odor-taste associations
Daily choices are determined by prior direct or indirect associations between low-salience cues and reinforcers. In this study, we used a mouse odor-taste sensory preconditioning task combined with ge...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy Holidays from the Molas Lab! @ibg.colorado.edu
December 24, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
It was fun to write this article with Gaby and thank you @bensaunders.bsky.social @bellonec.bsky.social for the opportunity!

"How dopamine enables learning from aversion"

🔜 I think we're in for a lot more cool science on this topic in the next few years
As I board my flight home for the holidays, I wanted to share that a review I wrote with @talialerner.bsky.social just came out! It’s titled “How dopamine enables learning from aversion.” Super grateful for the opportunity - hope you can check it out! 😊😊🎄🎄
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How dopamine enables learning from aversion
Dopamine is heavily studied for its role in reward learning, but it is becoming increasingly appreciated that dopamine can also enable learning from a…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 22, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Susanna Molas
Nothing says cozy reading by the fireplace like our new review, “Molecular heterogeneity and development of the VTA”
Thanks @bensaunders.bsky.social and @bellonec.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this special issue on #Dopamine!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIwj8MqMi...
December 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM