Austin A Coley, PhD
@AustinAColey
Neuroscientist 👨🏾🔬 | Assistant Professor @UCLA 🐻 | @SCglobalbrain TTI Fellow | @NIH DSPAN F99/K00 scholar
Year 1 as an Assistant Professor is officially complete! This has been a dream of mine, and I feel fortunate to have landed in such a supportive environment, surrounded by amazing senior faculty mentors and an exceptional multidisciplinary team. 🏆
The NIH has been at the forefront for funding critical scientific discoveries, especially for the prevention and treatment of disorders. Hoping it remains strong through the current turmoil. #ProtecttheNIH 🙏🏾
Here is my perspective on using a multidisciplinary approach in neuroscience. One of the top reasons I joined @UCLA. Thanks to the @_TheTransmitter for helping me promote this model to trainees 🤓
Neuroscience subfields are often siloed. Embracing an integrative approach during training can help change that, @AustinAColey explains: thetransmitter.org/craft-and-care…
Congrats Assaf and Takaki! 🥳🥳
Thrilled to share my postdoc work from @takaki_komiyama lab, showing how motor learning reshapes thalamic influence on motor cortex to enable learned movements. Hats off to our collaborators and co-authors for their incredible contributions! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Applications are now open for the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–26 academic year. The SURFiN program aims to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research…
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See the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC grc.org/catecholamines… & GRS grc.org/catecholamines…. In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contribution… & GRS my.grc.org/p/contribution…
It has been incredibly rewarding to build the lab with my team. We got 2 new lasers installed and beaming! 😎🔦
Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham @claulopezneuro @callimcflurry thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gut-…
As the world’s leading public research institution, UC depends on @NIH funding for scientific advances that save lives and improve healthcare. UC has submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit to block NIH cuts. bit.ly/4hs4pY0
President Trump is unlawfully decimating funding for medical and public health research that helps to develop new cures and treatments for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. We’re suing. oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…
The winner of the 2025 Pradel Research Award is Anne Churchland of @UCLA! She is being honored for expanding understanding of the neural circuits that support decision making. Learn more about her discoveries: nasonline.org/award/pradel-r… #NASaward #neuroscience
🤩 Wow! A @Pixar show on which I (wearing my sleep research hat) consulted, Dream Productions, has been released to the world early! Yesterday! I haven’t watched yet. Please watch 👀and tell me what you think. I’m so excited!!!!