Andreea Bostan

Cerebellar regions interconnected with the prefrontal cortex play a causal role in reward-based learning of visuomotor associations! Collaborative work with Naveen Sendhilnathan, @playa_meg, and Peter Strick @Pitt_Brain. Out in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very proud of this teamwork showing the use of SCS to improve arm and hand control after stroke. Terrific feat from co-first authors @marcppowell @ErynnSorensen and @verma_nikhil96. A big thank to the best collaborators ever @dougweberlab @ElviraPirondini and @blamlab 1/2

Raynor Cerebellum Project Announces 2024 Big Ideas Summit RFA - Total of $15 million Funding Available for Three or More Separate Teams - Up to $5 million for Each Team raynorcerebellumproject.org/rfas/

Please contact your government representative to fund the BRAIN Initiative and encourage your colleagues and trainees to do the same: house.gov/representative… senate.gov/senators/senat…

To everyone who has been shocked and depressed by the staggering 40% cut to the BRAIN Initiative: we have a voice! Outside Witness Testimony (aka written testimony) for the FY 2025 appropriations cycle is ongoing. Deadline for the House side is Friday May 3 and the Senate side…

Senior graduate students in #neuroscience are invited to apply for our Graduate Student Award Symposium. Selected applicants will give invited lectures, meet faculty, and learn about being a #postdoc at UT Southwestern. All expenses are paid. Apply now: bit.ly/3T6VuR3

Great title- The cerebellum tells the amygdala, “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action” cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

We are looking for postdocs to study neural mechanisms of complex thought.

In DC for #SFN23! Come by for new 7T data exploring a motor circuit that may be preserved in Parkinson's Disease 🧠 Will be at TPDA session poster EE23 Sat 6:30-8:30 halls A-C, and Tues. 8am-12pm PSTR 327.08 halls A-C

Congratulations @smickdougle on being awarded the 2024 @ncm_soc Early Career Award. Extremely well deserved 🎉.

Wonderful tribute for Sliman Bensmaia at SimCo this morning - the person and the scientist - led by his close friend @JeffMYau.

📢 Very excited to announce that, with very generous support from @azrielifdn, we are launching a new consortium for studying motor planning, execution and resilience. schulich.uwo.ca/about/news/202…

Word has quickly gotten around about the untimely death of @slimanjbensmaia. I wanted to pass on a couple more bits of information, including a gofundme for Kerry and kids (gofundme.com/f/sliman-bensm…) and a photo album (photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNz…). Add your favorites!

Debuted my lab logo at my GRS cerebellum (CB) talk! She embodies the confidence, stability, beauty & control of CB Purkinje cells & African American women & I hope she inspires others in STEM! Next step, website and merch! *Watermark added for this post as adviced* @BlackInNeuro

Thrilled to call myself an HHMI Gilliam Fellow! @kevinmawright has supported me since my post bacc days whether it be crazy research plot twists or my science outreach. #GilliamFellows A big thank you to Gilliam Fellow and friend @geetavita for convincing me to reapply!

Congratulations to @neuraltao on this amazing paper published in @NatureNeuro. We developed a new behavioral paradigm for studying the neural mechanisms of deliberation, and we show that monkeys use complex reasoning strategies to optimize value. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Neurobiologist @wrstauffer @PittHealthSci and his team put some thought into a study just published in @NatureNeuro that shows for the first time that monkeys are deep thinkers: neurosciencenews.com/monkey-cogniti…

Many thanks to @NIMHgov @IRPatNIH for continuous support of the NHP Genetic Tools workshop organized by Barry Richmond and Mark Eldridge. It’s incredible to see the progress that is being made across multiple domains of research.