Patricia Monteiro
@patmont-bsky.bsky.social
Principal investigator | Neuroscientist | @UPorto FMUP, Portugal | Alumni @MIT | @mcgovernmit | Basal ganglia and ASD.
The brain trying to understand the brain.
The brain trying to understand the brain.
Tenured! 🥳
Feeling deeply grateful for everyone who has been part of this journey (both past and present): my incredible team, mentors, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and family, who support us every day.
…what better time to be thankful than Thanksgiving?
Thank you all 💛
#FMUP #RISE-Health
Feeling deeply grateful for everyone who has been part of this journey (both past and present): my incredible team, mentors, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and family, who support us every day.
…what better time to be thankful than Thanksgiving?
Thank you all 💛
#FMUP #RISE-Health
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tenured! 🥳
Feeling deeply grateful for everyone who has been part of this journey (both past and present): my incredible team, mentors, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and family, who support us every day.
…what better time to be thankful than Thanksgiving?
Thank you all 💛
#FMUP #RISE-Health
Feeling deeply grateful for everyone who has been part of this journey (both past and present): my incredible team, mentors, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and family, who support us every day.
…what better time to be thankful than Thanksgiving?
Thank you all 💛
#FMUP #RISE-Health
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Excited to share that my co–first author paper has been accepted in @nature.com 🎉
We show that small molecules binding at the GPCR-transducer interface can predictably switch G protein selectivity - paving the way for structure-guided, pathway-selective drug design.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that small molecules binding at the GPCR-transducer interface can predictably switch G protein selectivity - paving the way for structure-guided, pathway-selective drug design.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Designing allosteric modulators to change GPCR G protein subtype selectivity - Nature
Studies of the G-protein-coupled receptor NTSR1 show that the G protein selectivity of this receptor can be modified by small molecules, enabling the design of drugs that work by switching receptor su...
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Excited to share that my co–first author paper has been accepted in @nature.com 🎉
We show that small molecules binding at the GPCR-transducer interface can predictably switch G protein selectivity - paving the way for structure-guided, pathway-selective drug design.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that small molecules binding at the GPCR-transducer interface can predictably switch G protein selectivity - paving the way for structure-guided, pathway-selective drug design.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One of my scientific heroes. She left on impact on many lives
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of my scientific heroes. She left on impact on many lives
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(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠. Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback! Please contact yulonglilab2018@gmail.com for information.
July 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠. Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback! Please contact yulonglilab2018@gmail.com for information.
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I’m looking for a Postdoc to join my new lab @pdncambridge.bsky.social on an MRC-funded project and explore maternal inter-organ communication with a focus on the mammary gland, using a novel mouse model.
📍 Tenure: 3 years
⏳ Deadline: 15 August 2025
Please RT 🙏
👉 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/
📍 Tenure: 3 years
⏳ Deadline: 15 August 2025
Please RT 🙏
👉 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/
Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’m looking for a Postdoc to join my new lab @pdncambridge.bsky.social on an MRC-funded project and explore maternal inter-organ communication with a focus on the mammary gland, using a novel mouse model.
📍 Tenure: 3 years
⏳ Deadline: 15 August 2025
Please RT 🙏
👉 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/
📍 Tenure: 3 years
⏳ Deadline: 15 August 2025
Please RT 🙏
👉 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/
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🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
Details 👇🏾
dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
Details 👇🏾
dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt
July 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
Details 👇🏾
dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
Details 👇🏾
dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt
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🚨Join us! We're soon opening 3 postdoctoral positions in #AIDrivenBiology. Seeking biologists (especially microbiology and infection biology), computer scientists, and microscopy developers. Ideal candidates are those eager to use or develop next-gen tech for cell biology. Get in touch (DM/email)
July 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🚨Join us! We're soon opening 3 postdoctoral positions in #AIDrivenBiology. Seeking biologists (especially microbiology and infection biology), computer scientists, and microscopy developers. Ideal candidates are those eager to use or develop next-gen tech for cell biology. Get in touch (DM/email)
Biology is surprising 🤯
Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron
https://go.nature.com/3FHe0N4
https://go.nature.com/3FHe0N4
Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 04 June 2025
go.nature.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Biology is surprising 🤯
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🚨 We're hiring! A Research Project Manager position is open in our lab at the Institute of Neuroscience (CSIC-UMH, Alicante)! Join us in exploring how spontaneous activity shapes sensory circuits 🧠✨ @glb-lab.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Jobs #ResearchManager
📅 Deadline: May 25
📅 Deadline: May 25
May 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 We're hiring! A Research Project Manager position is open in our lab at the Institute of Neuroscience (CSIC-UMH, Alicante)! Join us in exploring how spontaneous activity shapes sensory circuits 🧠✨ @glb-lab.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Jobs #ResearchManager
📅 Deadline: May 25
📅 Deadline: May 25
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We are hiring! PostDoc position on my ERC for wire-less electrophysiology in our 9mX5m rat HexMaze! Experience with tetrodes or silicone probes required. Contact me for questions! www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab
www.genzellab.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We are hiring! PostDoc position on my ERC for wire-less electrophysiology in our 9mX5m rat HexMaze! Experience with tetrodes or silicone probes required. Contact me for questions! www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
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Europe’s choice is clear.
To put science at the heart of its economy.
To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.
And to welcome talent from all over the world.
I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.
→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ
To put science at the heart of its economy.
To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.
And to welcome talent from all over the world.
I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.
→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ
May 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Europe’s choice is clear.
To put science at the heart of its economy.
To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.
And to welcome talent from all over the world.
I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.
→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ
To put science at the heart of its economy.
To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.
And to welcome talent from all over the world.
I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.
→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ
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🎈Our latest 🪅
We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior.
We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n
We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior.
We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n
An enteric neuron-expressed variant ionotropic receptor detects ingested salts to regulate salt stress resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.648259v1
April 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
🎈Our latest 🪅
We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior.
We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n
We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior.
We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n
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Was just pointed to this important preprint from @minsanally.bsky.social :
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
Dynamic gating of perceptual flexibility by non-classically responsive cortical neurons
The ability to flexibly respond to sensory cues in dynamic environments is essential to adaptive auditory-guided behaviors. Cortical spiking responses during behavior are highly diverse, ranging from ...
www.researchsquare.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Was just pointed to this important preprint from @minsanally.bsky.social :
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning.
So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!!
🧠📈 🧪
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The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli...
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
2026 Basal Ganglia Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli...
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
Today on #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, our lab dressed in blue to celebrate diversity and show our support for the autism community, ensuring that neurodivergent individuals and their families feel seen, supported, and included. #BeInclusive #DressBlue #AutismAwareness
April 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Today on #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, our lab dressed in blue to celebrate diversity and show our support for the autism community, ensuring that neurodivergent individuals and their families feel seen, supported, and included. #BeInclusive #DressBlue #AutismAwareness
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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
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please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high.
Join us!
Join us!
February 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high.
Join us!
Join us!
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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So many new #BluSci users 💙✨❄️, welcome!
For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀…
use 🧪 to post on the #Science feed
use 🧠 for a #Neuroskyence feed
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Bonuses: 🕊️ 🌱 📌
Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩🔬💙
For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀…
use 🧪 to post on the #Science feed
use 🧠 for a #Neuroskyence feed
If you use any of these emojis👩🔬|👩🏻🔬|👩🏼🔬|👩🏽🔬|👩🏾🔬|👩🏿🔬 your post will on a #WomenInSTEM feed
Bonuses: 🕊️ 🌱 📌
Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩🔬💙
December 31, 2024 at 12:43 PM
So many new #BluSci users 💙✨❄️, welcome!
For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀…
use 🧪 to post on the #Science feed
use 🧠 for a #Neuroskyence feed
If you use any of these emojis👩🔬|👩🏻🔬|👩🏼🔬|👩🏽🔬|👩🏾🔬|👩🏿🔬 your post will on a #WomenInSTEM feed
Bonuses: 🕊️ 🌱 📌
Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩🔬💙
For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀…
use 🧪 to post on the #Science feed
use 🧠 for a #Neuroskyence feed
If you use any of these emojis👩🔬|👩🏻🔬|👩🏼🔬|👩🏽🔬|👩🏾🔬|👩🏿🔬 your post will on a #WomenInSTEM feed
Bonuses: 🕊️ 🌱 📌
Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩🔬💙
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Sending this to the journal editor who has emailed me 4 times since Christmas day about a manuscript review
welcome to the Shadow Week. anything you accomplish in the next seven days is a bonus, the year doesn’t really start until next Monday
December 30, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Sending this to the journal editor who has emailed me 4 times since Christmas day about a manuscript review
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We'd like to introduce movement, a free and open-source Python package for analysing body movements, designed to aid the study of animal behaviour in neuroscience.
Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev
Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind...
GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...
Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev
Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind...
GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...
movement — movement
movement.neuroinformatics.dev
March 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
We'd like to introduce movement, a free and open-source Python package for analysing body movements, designed to aid the study of animal behaviour in neuroscience.
Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev
Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind...
GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...
Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev
Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind...
GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...
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Help bluesky neurohivemind!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
December 7, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Help bluesky neurohivemind!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
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November 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM