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We're so happy you love them as much as we do!! Be sure to check out upennglia.com for outreach resources for neuroscientists and for @PennNeuroKnow articles that bridge the gap between neuroscience research/advances and the public!
Excited to find brain coloring pages for tomorrow's Bring Kids to Work Day! Check out these awesome resources at @PennNGG's Neuro Coloring Pages: upennglia.com/neuro-coloring… 🧠🎨 #BrainScience #KidsAtWork
Did you know scientists are studying bats to understand how the brain processes and sorts the sounds we hear? Learn more about what bat brains can teach us about ourselves in this week's piece written by @PennNGG student Abby Lieberman @abbygreenliebs pennneuroknow.com/2025/06/03/how…
🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭 Now published in @NatureNeuro … Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility nature.com/articles/s4159…
Excited to present my first first-author preprint from the Corder lab, with @EAHellerPhD and @flybottleescape – Psilocybin-enhanced fear extinction linked to bidirectional modulation of cortical ensembles. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Diego Dávila of the Proekt Lab! Please join us in person on 7/23. Best of luck, Diego! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
How do emotional support animals help manage symptoms of mental illnesses and how does the brain react to this connection? Learn more in this week's piece by @PennNGG student Emma Fischer pennneuroknow.com/2025/07/08/emo… #scicomm #emotionalsupportanimal
Congrats to Katie Copley on being selected as an award recipient for the 2025 @NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! #OSNAP @pennbgs @PennNGG @Penn @PennMedicine @bb_upenn: nimh.nih.gov/research/resea…
Humans are the only species that cry with actual, physical tears. Why have we evolved this behavior? Does it benefit us? & if so, why don’t we cry more? Dive into the neuroscience of crying in this week's article by @PennNGG student Eve Gautreaux pennneuroknow.com/2025/07/01/the… #scicomm
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Lisa Woolridge of the Corder Lab @FlyBottleEscape! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 7/1. Best of luck, Lisa! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
You may have heard about patriarchy, but how about matriarchy? Bees, elephants, & bonobos show us when females are the ones running the show in the wild. Learn about matriarchal animal societies in this week's piece, written by @PennNGG student Nita Rome pennneuroknow.com/2025/06/17/ani…
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Luigim Vargas Cifuentes of the Fuccillo Lab @Fuccillomarc ! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 6/17. Best of luck, Luigim! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
How does climate change impact the brain? Spoiler alert: it’s not looking good.. Check out this week's piece where @PennNGG student Margaret Gardner dives into this chilling topic: pennneuroknow.com/2025/06/10/cha… #scicomm #climateanxiety
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Gianna Perez (@Gianna_M_Perez) of the Oathes Lab (@DesmondOathes)! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 6/5. Best of luck, Gianna! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Yusha Sun of the Song Lab @UPenn_SongMing ! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 6/2. Best of luck, Yusha! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Barnes Jannuzi of the Rust Lab @NicoleCRust! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 5/29. Best of luck, Barnes! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Logan Flickling of the Nusbaum Lab! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 5/29. Best of luck, Logan! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
Check out this week's piece by @PennNGG student @joulesriley_ that describes how basic research, focused on understanding our world rather than directly investigating diseases, has laid the groundwork for several important developments in modern medicine! pennneuroknow.com/2025/05/20/bas…
We're counting down the days to #BGSGraduation2025! Please join us in congratulating this year's amazing graduates - their profiles can be found here!🎉🎓 med.upenn.edu/bgs/bgs-2025-g…
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Marissa Maroni of the @KorbLab! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 5/20. Best of luck, Marissa! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
Nice talk by @Swethag_UIC at the @PennNGG and @PennMINS seminar! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
#NGG is proud to present our next Thesis Defense given by Xiaomao Ding of the Geffen Lab @neimarkgeffen ! Please join us in person or virtually (DM us for the link) on 4/21. Best of luck, Xiaomao! #PhAlmostDone 🥳
