Butt Lab - Oxford

Funded PhD opportunity at @UoBrisPPN for UK applicants of Black African or other Black or mixed Black heritage - collaborative project with @P_Anastasiades & @clembrnrd & me on the neural and molecular underpinnings of negative symptoms in schizophrenia FindAPhD.com

Developmental Common Coordinate Framework (DevCCF) for developing mouse brain atlases is out. nature.com/articles/s4146… It features MRI and light-sheet co-registered templates and 3D anatomical labels based on developmental ontology from embryonic to adult ages

And we are off for this year’s edition of Developing Brains! @UlrikaKMarklund delivering the opening address. A full day off amazing science from @Interneuron_Dev, @HanganuOpatzLab, @ErinMGibson, @TSS_Lab, @MartinUCSF @RuizdeAlmodovar, @acestreit, @Franze_Lab

Happy to share this new paper from the lab in collaboration with George Augustine, characterizing synaptic connectivity between the claustrum and the anterior cingulate cortex. Congratulations to Roberto, Zach, and all co-authors! @RobertodelaTor

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at Experimental Psychology, Oxford is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models. Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

1/ 🚨 Excited to share our latest study: Perinatal serotonin signalling dynamically influences the development of cortical GABAergic circuits with consequences for lifelong sensory encoding🧠 Here’s what we found:

Boom! New from The Goldberg and Plotkin labs: Cholinergic interneurons facilitate serotonin release in the striatum. @GoldbergLab @lab_plotkin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting #PhD opportunity @TheCrick @dev_neuro @KingsIoPPN to study the control of mitochondrial activity during brain development & disorders jointly supervised by @NeuroMikeD & myself @HouartLab . Interested? Apply for Crick-KCL PhD programme 2025! crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

Check out our poster A67 on cortical somatostatin interneurons of postnatal mice, from molecular to systems level, at #SfN24 tomorrow morning. This work is from the @Interneuron_Dev lab together with @ENtaouka, @antpcolorado, and Lynn Geyer in collaboration with @HjerlingLeffler.

If you are at #sfn2024, come check poster M17 this afternoon to see how we used gated deep neural networks and all-optical experiments during learning to unveil a new role of cortical serotonin. A collaboration between @SaxeLab @stefsmlab @Interneuron_Dev @paqio and Trevor Sharp

Why are some neurons more selective than others? We report now in @Nature how calcium permeable-AMPA receptors in PV neurons make them less selective to sensory features nature.com/articles/s4158… Long live the geniuses behind this🧠🔍juhyun.kim @thainmueller @rhuganir

Fully @The_MRC funded #PhD studentships @KCL_MRCDTP now open! Project with me @dev_neuro and Sam Cooke @WolfsonSPaRC both @KingsCollegeLon on the functional development of circuits for learning and memory (kcl-mrcdtp.com) NS-MH2025_07 #MRCDTP25

📣 Neuro postdoc jobs!🧠 My lab in Oxford has openings for 1) a 2-photon microscopist interested in 3-photon imaging in vivo and 2) a slice physiologist interested in patching in vivo. If this is you, please Direct Message me.

Are you a psychologist or neuroscientist who completed your PhD after 1st October 2022, or about to submit your thesis? Consider applying for the **4-year Career Research Development Fellowship** in Psychology at St John's College, Oxford. Please share! sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vacan…

Intriguing ideas from @gershbrain on RL and policy complexity, tested on the brain’s dopamine signals

📣NEURO FACULTY JOBS! 🧠 University of Oxford opened *2* positions for Associate Professors of Neuroscience! Come be our colleague! Applications due: noon, 18 Nov 2024 More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… @UniofOxford @OxfordDPAG @OxNeuro @PembrokeOxford @hilda_beastoxf

Very interesting: life experience severely diminishes the predictive power of genetics for individual learning-dependent behavior.