Susan Sangha
@sanghalab.bsky.social
Academic nomad. From Canada to Germany to the US. Associate Prof at Indiana Uni School of Medicine & Stark Neurosciencie Research Institute. Neural circuits of safety behavior. sanghalab.com
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New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
authors.elsevier.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
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I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!
Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡
See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...
See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!
This was a super fun meeting surrounded by beautiful mountains (Austrian Alps). Thank you @parnian-saberi.bsky.social, @markuswohr.bsky.social et al for the invite!
Another highlight of the @dfg.de-funded RTG2271 Breaking Expectations retreat: Susan Sangha’s talk on behavioral and neural mechanisms of safety learning. Thank you, @sanghalab.bsky.social! Super inspiring!
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This was a super fun meeting surrounded by beautiful mountains (Austrian Alps). Thank you @parnian-saberi.bsky.social, @markuswohr.bsky.social et al for the invite!
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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
I want to know how long everyone had to stand still waiting for that dog to be in the right position 😆
Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
June 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I want to know how long everyone had to stand still waiting for that dog to be in the right position 😆
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After an amazing opening plenary on threat and fear at the @canacn.bsky.social meeting got to hang out with some of my favorite amygdala scientists @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social @superkash.bsky.social @jojolab.bsky.social @iordanova.bsky.social @sanghalab.bsky.social & Kerry Ressler
May 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
After an amazing opening plenary on threat and fear at the @canacn.bsky.social meeting got to hang out with some of my favorite amygdala scientists @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social @superkash.bsky.social @jojolab.bsky.social @iordanova.bsky.social @sanghalab.bsky.social & Kerry Ressler
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The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
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I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
March 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
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🚨 New lab paper!🚨
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour
Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🚨 New lab paper!🚨
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
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We're now actively rescheduling last week's cancelled study section. Well, there's a Doodle poll anyway...
February 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
We're now actively rescheduling last week's cancelled study section. Well, there's a Doodle poll anyway...
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I got an email from my SRO today that we are rescheduling our study section that was canceled last week and are now coordinating schedules. The earliest date allowed for us to meet is March 25.
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I got an email from my SRO today that we are rescheduling our study section that was canceled last week and are now coordinating schedules. The earliest date allowed for us to meet is March 25.
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No surprise but the Behavioral Neuroscience Fellowship Study Section scheduled for this Thurs-Fri has been postponed. What really sucks is that, while diversity apps were initially removed, they were all added back and reviewed. Hopefully, the rumors of the Fed Register block ending soon are true.
February 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
No surprise but the Behavioral Neuroscience Fellowship Study Section scheduled for this Thurs-Fri has been postponed. What really sucks is that, while diversity apps were initially removed, they were all added back and reviewed. Hopefully, the rumors of the Fed Register block ending soon are true.
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I am actively looking for a research scientist position or research administration role within the Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area! Please reach out if my background and skillset might fit your labs needs :-) Lots of experience with preclinical models, translational neuroscience, and behavioral analyses!
February 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I am actively looking for a research scientist position or research administration role within the Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area! Please reach out if my background and skillset might fit your labs needs :-) Lots of experience with preclinical models, translational neuroscience, and behavioral analyses!
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I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.
February 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.
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A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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February 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
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ATTENTION
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
2/n
February 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
ATTENTION
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
2/n
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
2/n
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education
“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions
scim.ag
February 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
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📣 As promised, here is our protocol paper on chemotagging! This new technique combines calcium imaging with chemogenetics to identify cell types in commonly used Miniscope recordings & can be used to tag ANY CELL TYPE! #Neuroskyence
Read about the technique here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read about the technique here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
📣 As promised, here is our protocol paper on chemotagging! This new technique combines calcium imaging with chemogenetics to identify cell types in commonly used Miniscope recordings & can be used to tag ANY CELL TYPE! #Neuroskyence
Read about the technique here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read about the technique here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats Kevin on the PECASE!!!
So excited and humbled to join this cohort of early career scientists recognized by President Biden with the highest honor for an engineer or scientist in the US #PECASE #NSF www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House
Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...
www.whitehouse.gov
January 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Congrats Kevin on the PECASE!!!
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#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
Upcoming Meeting — Pavlovian Society
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November 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
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Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
School of Medicine - Open Rank Neurosciences Strategic Hire
The University of Alabama at Birmingham* (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM)** is recruiting up to 20 investigators as part of a major strategic initiative in the Neurosciences to build on a stro...
uab.peopleadmin.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link!
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
Really nice paper by @ronkeiflin.bsky.social lab on "Partially dissociable roles of the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus in context-dependent hierarchical associations" using male AND female rats.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Partially dissociable roles of the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus in context-dependent hierarchical associations
Animals use contextual information to interpret ambiguous cues. Using chemogenetic
silencing in rats, Peterson et al. show that the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus
are both involved in thi...
www.cell.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Really nice paper by @ronkeiflin.bsky.social lab on "Partially dissociable roles of the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus in context-dependent hierarchical associations" using male AND female rats.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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I’m so honored to receive the ACNP Efron Award.
It reflects the hard work of my lab members & collaborators. So grateful for my team & enjoy sciencing with them’
It reflects the hard work of my lab members & collaborators. So grateful for my team & enjoy sciencing with them’
yay @bangasserlab.bsky.social congrats on winning the ACNP Efron award!!!
November 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I’m so honored to receive the ACNP Efron Award.
It reflects the hard work of my lab members & collaborators. So grateful for my team & enjoy sciencing with them’
It reflects the hard work of my lab members & collaborators. So grateful for my team & enjoy sciencing with them’
#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
Upcoming Meeting — Pavlovian Society
pavlovian.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...