Mark Gergues

My first graduate school paper with @mazen_kheirbek is out now in @NatureNeuro Couldn’t have been done without some amazing people @hyeschoi @kelsey_clausing @VS_Turner & @IliaVainchtein from @AnnaMolofskyLab nature.com/articles/s4159… (1/8)

In this new preprint, Emily Twedell (PhD student) and colleagues identify a functional role for the inhibitory synapses between striatal projection neurons -- shaping striatal ensembles to promote healthy action selection. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So many @NINDSDiversity #DSPAN awardees represented at #ACNP2024 🥹🫶🩷 very inspired by my fellow grantees and especially by @MichelleJoLo1 who makes doing our work possible and has been deservedly recognized 🥳

A couple of news articles by @UCSF and @Nature : ucsf.edu/news/2024/12/4… nature.com/articles/d4158…

Thrilled to share our new paper in @Nature - "Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia." A wonderful team effort with @_fxia, @VFascianelli and @StefanoFusi2. Check out the thread below. nature.com/articles/s4158…

What is the neural code and statistical structure of neural states characterizing stress? Our new work out in Nature answers these questions and more. Thanks to my amazing co-first @_fxia, and @StefanoFusi2 and @mazen_kheirbek for invaluable guidance🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share our new paper out now @Nature, where we identified neural signatures of stress susceptibility and resilience in the amygdala-ventral hippocampal network to enable control of anhedonia! <nature.com/articles/s4158…> Thread below:

December Fellow's Spotlight on Dr. Christian Cazares hubs.la/Q02ZZX-l0

For years, we have been interested in what exactly ventral CA1 encodes and what kinds of behaviors it can influence. This new preprint from @jeremy_biane and crew examined what kinds of information are (and are not) represented in the activity patterns of ventral CA1 neurons.

New preprint is up examining what information is encoded by the ventral hippocampus (vhpc) Gotta love those studies where your initial hypothesis is thoroughly destroyed by the data. This one reframed how I think about the vhpc. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/3 Exciting News! We're hiring at all levels immediately for our lab @UUNeurobiology Join us in cutting-edge research at the intersection of neuroscience and chemical biology! We aim to explore how neuropeptides modulate behavior and physiology. Pls RT!

Post storm #SfN24 . Till next time chicago

Calm before the storm? #SfN24

𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 & 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀 I’m co-organizing the SAF Life Sciences Conference on Nov 1-2, 2024, and we’re inviting abstract submissions for 10-minute flash talks. Deadline is Sep 15. Details below!

Excited to share this perspective piece on mentoring that I wrote for @NeuroCellPress with my grad school mentor, Greg Quirk! “Mentoring to propagate racial inclusivity in neuroscience” cell.com/neuron/abstrac…

New pub alert! Check out this new review @LalaLahin @mazen_kheirbek and I wrote together on the interesting work that has been done to understand psychiatric illness with calcium imaging in animal models. nature.com/articles/s4138…

Excited to say that it’s preprint time🎉! Here we provide evidence that autism gene variants affect enteric neuron migration and cause gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Mark Gergues @mmgergues from @mazen_kheirbek's lab @UCSF, where he is a member of the neuroscience program's DEI committee to create programs that work against the systemic racism pervasive in academia, shared his exciting thesis work on "Thalamo-hippocampal circuit for…

Still have the warm and fuzzies from the stellar talks from each of our #DISCOVER awardees! Talking to faculty and trainees, the program was hugely stimulating for the entire @salkinstitute community from talks to panels to mini-interviews!