Jeremy Day

New lab preprint just dropped. New PhD Kendall Dean used both human-derived neurons and mice to show that ankyrin-G dysfunction causes a surprising deficit in somatostatin (SST) neuron connectivity, expanding ankyrin-G's role in contributing to inhibitory circuitry. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/9 Birds make ultrafast decisions In this study, carrion crows were able to make decisions twice as fast as primates, including humans. Let me briefly explain the findings and share my thoughts. (paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exciting day for UAB Neurosciences! Today's ribbon cutting ceremony for the brand new Shelby Biosciences Research Building marks a new chapter in research growth at UAB. This facility is the largest research building at UAB, with 228K square feet of space.

I'm sure we all have some ideas to contribute here! Request for Information (RFI): Opportunities to Reduce Administrative Burden in NIH Extramural Research grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We are excited to host Dr. Meaghan Creed from Washington University in St. Louis for our weekly Neuroscience Seminar Series this week. Keep up with all UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center events here: www.uab.edu/medicine/cnc...

It's October, so its horror movie season 👻🎃 To assist with deciding what to watch, I created Halloween horror movie bingo to help ensure diversity in choices across horror sub-genres. Thru October, I will be updating with recs for each category. Lets see who gets all 31! #horrorsky #horrormovies

Please share! I am recruiting up to 2 postdoctoral fellows. Application: apply.interfolio.com/191385

So excited for this paper to be out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social on Canadian Thanksgiving. So much to be thankful for. Summary thread coming soon! #epigenetics #alzheimer's www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#FluorescenceFriday image from UAB undergraduate Aditya Pradeep, with @odrake.bsky.social. Red = tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) protein Cyan = DAPI TH is the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of dopamine, and is densely expressed in axon terminals from midbrain dopamine neurons in the rat striatum.

Our Department of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota is looking for another tenure-track Assistant Professor! Please pass along to those in your network who may be interested. 💛〽️ Join us! 👉 jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/680440/ass… ���#FacultyJobs #Pharmacology #TenureTrack 🧪🔵🧠

Excited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice. We learned some new biology too. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Incredible FASEB #NeuroExpSRC meeting over the last couple of days including field leaders such as Michael Greenberg and Richard Tsien - congratulations to the organizers @ennatsew.bsky.social, @ramensaha.bsky.social, and @spiegel-lab.bsky.social on organizing such a fantastic conference.

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

**Recruitment** We are looking to hire a psychiatrist/scientist (MD or MD/PhD) who focuses on neuromodulation, particularly rTMS in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. Come join myself, @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social and more. Details 👇 careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1829278...

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

Welcome to Dr. Barbara Juarez (@touchyourbrain.bsky.social) from the University of Maryland School of Medicine for the UAB Neuroscience Seminar Series today!

A few days of seeing sunrises while fishing in Louisiana is a pretty good life reset hack. A massive yellowfin tuna catch also helps!

Very excited to share our newest preprint, led by myself and Biostats PhD Student Jianing Yao, where we generate a three dimensional reconstruction of the human NAc to understand how cell type heterogeneity and topography change across the anterior-posterior axis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A paper in Nature presents the largest-known map of gene expression in the human prefrontal cortex region of the brain. go.nature.com/46BFtJZ 🧬🧪

For non-developmental biologists: we don't think of ourselves as segmented (that's for insects, after all), but our nervous system is segmented. The forebrain is set up different than the midbrain, which is set up differently than the hindbrain, which is set up differently than the spinal cord.

Congratulations Jen! Excited to see all of the amazing science that comes out of this.

Cool work from @edoncheck.bsky.social describing a platform for drug (or non-drug) self-administration combined with single-cell calcium imaging! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With the beginning of the new academic year, I'm reposting the info for our free online neuroscience methods course. If you're starting a PhD in neuroscience, or just want a refresher, this is for you!

Excited to share work with cryostat wizard @heenadivecha.bsky.social looking at gene expression in my favorite brain region (LC) in adult postmortem brain! (Long URL to spare the trouble of identifying cars, buses, beds in 5x5 pixel imgs). (1/x) link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

New publication from @lukesjulson.bsky.social lab and collaborators! #Neocortical long-range #inhibition promotes #cortical #synchrony and #sleep doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Pleased to share a new Addiction Neuroscience Special Issue "Early Life Influences on Addiction" edited by @madrelabutd.bsky.social with contributions from @ericagrodin.bsky.social, @laurenmac.bsky.social, Marvin Diaz, Elizabeth Byrnes, and Chris Pierce! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🚨🧠📄 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: L5 ACC engages dlPAG to facilitate affective pain First, map opioid+ pain ACC neurons: nature.com/articles/s4158… Next, ID endogenous opioid control across PAG: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11��� Now, we link the ACC→dlPAG circuit: biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Glutamate is a major chemical messenger in the brain, and is fundamental for excitatory synaptic neurotransmission. This new discovery from CNC faculty members @jwadiche.bsky.social @wadichelabs.bsky.social reveals for the first time how glutamate concentration shapes glutamate receptor function.

In case you missed the preprint the published version of our paper describing the cellular, molecular, and behavioral consequences of hyperphosphorylated tau in the mouse locus coeruleus is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social JNeurosci from Butcher, Ramirez, and Ruiz etal! We show that #addiction is not a unitary entity in the brain, and that even different opioid drugs recruit diff brain mechs. Highlighted in "this week in the Journal!" www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

Stress can trigger symptoms in #schizophrenia. We've known that for decades, but not why. We found the chemical tags that keep the key stress gene #FKBP5 in check have worn away, leaving the #stress system switched on. Our latest in The American Journal of Psychiatry @apajournals.bsky.social 🧠

New preprint from @u-bds.bsky.social outlines nf_xpatial, a Nextflow framework for reproducible processing of spatial transcriptomics data on the @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium platform. Happy to contribute a bit of our mouse brain data for this! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My department is hiring! Come join a vibrant and thriving neuroscience group. New faculty are exceptionally well supported and we offer a very collaborative/collegial environment. employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...

Feature story on the CNC's "Neuroscience for All" program, led by @visscherlab.bsky.social. This program uses hands-on demos to inspire an interest in neuroscience in our community. Read more below! www.uab.edu/reporter/in-...

Thrilled to have an incredible keynote lecture from the Allen Institute’s @hongkuizeng.bsky.social for the @uabneuro.bsky.social annual retreat! Tools and cellular atlases generated by @alleninstitute.org provide a deep framework that serves as the foundation for mechanistic exploration.

Incredibly proud to share our newest work where we developed a multiscale spatial transcriptomic atlas of the human amygdala using three complementary technologies! 1/12 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

Looking to improve your PeerReview skills? The Reviewer Mentor Program pairs trainees with #JNeurosci & #eNeuro editors & top reviewers to conduct strong manuscript reviews. Open to SfN members at any career stage: http://www.jneurosci.org/rmp

Important new paper on the role of LC mu opioid receptors in pain from @jordacular.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Early life experiences, the neural epigenome and affective disorder risk — a Review by Ashley M. Cunningham & Ian Maze #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New opening in our lab!

Looking for a postdoc in addiction and neuroimaging!! Check out medicine.yale.edu/biomedical-i... Message me directly if you are interested in hearing about opportunities to apply to work with the YIP lab :)

On the cover of Science Signaling today, the final version of our initial investigation of functional differences between VTA glutamate-dopamine, nonglutamate-dopamine, and glutamate-only neurons www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Quick #FluorescenceFriday post to show off these beautiful orexin neurons in the perifornical area of the lateral hypothalamus (red) in the rat brain. This small population of neurons plays a major role in regulation of sleep, feeding, and arousal. Image credit to @odrake.bsky.social

How does experience change the brain at the molecular level? The inaugural #NeuroExpSRC will bring together researchers studying experience-regulated transcription and neuronal plasticity to share the latest discoveries and build new collaborations. Find out more and register: buff.ly/qoyt0rW

Applications are open for the 2027 Scholar and Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards from the McKnight Foundation. Recent UAB awardees include Dr. Lillian Brady (2026 Scholar) and Dr. Jeremy Day (2022 NBDA awardee). Apply here: www.mcknight.org/programs/the...