Paula R Villamayor
@pau8paula
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at @Columbia - Neuroscience • Socio sexual Behaviour • Olfaction • Genomics • Morphology 🧠🧬🔬 Member of @JovInvest_SENC 🤓💪
Join our Editor-in-Chief Mariela Zirlinger, alongside Liqun Luo, Hongkui Zeng, Paola Arlotta et al. at "The Changing Brain" conference (Aug 18-20, 2025, Irvine, CA), organized by the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (@UCI_NeurCircuit), the Cajal Club @Cajalclub and the Allen…
Grateful to have been part of #ATMN at @CSHL 🧠🧪 Two intense weeks of cutting-edge neuroscience, long lab days, little sleep — and one of the most fun, inspiring, and unique experiences of my scientific career! Thanks to the instructors, TAs, and the best fellows 💙🙌 #Neuro
🎉 Thrilled to share my postdoc work - preprint out now on BiorXiv here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We investigated how the juvenile brain develops the ability to carry out care behaviours towards neonates by an exciting and surprising switch in neural activity and behaviour
“Dominance rank inference in mice via chemosensation” by Neven Borak et al. Current Biology doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…
Congratulations to all our @Columbia scientists recognized with @NYASciences 2025 Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience: @matt_eroglu, @YukiHaba_, @sreejan_kumar, @YutaMabuchi and Keshav Suresh. 👏 👏👏
Congratulations to the 2025 #LeonLevyScholars!🎉 Announcing the 2025 #LeonLevyScholars, in partnership with the Leon Levy Foundation. Recipients participate in a multi-year postdoctoral program to advance their careers. Read more about the Scholars: bit.nyas.org/3Yoa6Pf
Nachum's new book Natural Neuroscience is out! A fresh take on how brains work in the real world—well worth a read.
🚨 The Spanish Society for #Neuroscience opens two award calls: 🏅 Excellent Student Rita Levi Montalcini Award 🔬 Tatiana Foundation Young Investigator Award 🗓️Deadline: June 10, 2025 More info: senc.es/ayudas-de-la-s… #Awards #SENC @JovInvest_SENC
🥁💰SENC travel award applications to attend the FENS Regional Meeting 2025 in Oslo (June 16-19) are now open! 🎯🤑5 awards for PhD students and early career Postdocs (450€). Deadline: May 10th. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3zduy7pc @SENC_ #FENS #TravelGrant #Neuroscience
To everyone in the U.S. standing up for science today, calling for policies that support science, not suppress it: we’re with you! Cutting science doesn’t just harm scientists – it harms society as a whole. #StandUpForScience
Still shaking after an incredible discussion with Dr. Richard Axel! 🏆 His insights into the mysteries of smell and pheromones were mind-blowing. "The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see." A true master of scientific curiosity! 🧠👃✨ #Neuroscience #NobelPrize
Investigadores del @InstitutoCajal-CSIC muestran que los astrocitos (células clave para la función cerebral) forman subgrupos especializados y que son cruciales para los procesos de aprendizaje y recompensa. Abre vías para estudiar diversos trastornos ➡️ csic.es/es/actualidad-…
🔊✈️ Travel grants to attend #SENC2025 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 🌴☀️ 💡💰 This year we've increased the number and funding of travel grants You can't miss this opportunity! 🔬🧠 Apply here ⬇️⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n73prsw #neuroscience #travelgrants #earlycareer #science
Here I am, a young woman filled with a sense of purpose, and many dreams. It was my first year of living in New York, a dangerous place, promising me everything and nothing. I had no idea that I would one day be living here in a time where Fascism would become Banal and the.…
Antipsychotics are often prescribed to suppress hyperaggression. Do they really suppress aggression or just cause sedation? Antipsychotics target dopamine receptors. Our new study, published today @Nature, uncovered the role of dopamine in aggression. nature.com/articles/s4158…
🐟👩🏽🔬👏🏽 Moitas gracias a @GC_GCiencia por interesarse nas miñas investigacións! 👏🏽👏🏽 Descubre o que nos ensinan os peixes betta neste artigo ⬇️
🐟👩🔬 Os peixes betta, de cores rechamantes, son habituais nos acuarios das casas pero son moi agresivos por natureza. A científica galega @pau8paula investiga dende Estados Unidos esta especie para intentar comprender a agresividade humana 👇 gciencia.com/investigacion/…
⚠️❗️Pedimos máxima difusión para que se de una solución al colectivo postdoctoral de la Xunta, de acuerdo a la continuidad de sus carreras científicas!! GRACIAS
Más de 150 científicos piden un compromiso de estabilidad. 👩🔬Galicia es la única comunidad que ha formalizado un contrato de seis años para los investigadores posdoctorales, pero ha dejado fuera a los de las convocatorias previas lavoz.gal/bl_rh3
De la cima del laboratorio, «al limbo» 🥼 Unos 150 investigadores gallegos, en vilo por su futuro inmediato ✍️ Informa @helena_ocampo farodevigo.es/galicia/2024/1…
Hoxe no Faro de Vigo recollemos as nosas queixas sobre a precariedade da investigación e a falta de un plan de continuidade da carreira investigadora en Galicia para os actuais posdoutorais da Xunta: farodevigo.es/galicia/2024/1…
❗ Llegan las primeras cartas de despido a los investigadores María Zambrano que trabajan en Galicia lavoz.gal/jw2rm2
Glucose has a surprise role in directing cell fate and migration go.nature.com/4hcwMtM