vivekdna.bsky.social
Geneticist, neuroscientist, behaviorist @Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. www.kumarlab.org
👤 Joined on 15 September 2023
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@vivekdna.bsky.socialCongratulations to grad student Damián García-García on winning 2nd prize in the best poster category at the 7th Biennial Salamander Meeting 2026! 📸 Sonia Olguín García and Keninseb García Rojo / Press and Communications Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM
Show PostMy mom rang the bellon Thursday. We’re still on the road to healing, and her surgery is coming up but I’m so happy we caught her breast cancer early. Doesn’t she look amazing for 86??? 💕 💗💖💞💓🌸💐🌺💘💝🌷 #Pinks #SheShed #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
Show Post💡 Learn to design behavioral workflows, apply ML approaches to behavioral modeling, and connect behavior to neural and experimental manipulations. Register: www.jax.org/education-an... Organized by: @vivekdna.bsky.social @antihebbiann.bsky.social @gordonberman.bsky.social @goldenneuron.bsky.social
Show PostJoin me on Zoom tomorrow at 10am PST for a high-level talk on our hypothalamus work, plus a fun preview of our mouse behavior forecasting project. Talk title shamelessly stolen from the most badass Larry Swanson paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16254987/ luma.com/pfj56a5v
Show PostWhat regulates the urge to sleep? William Joo and colleagues identified brain regions that reflect how long mice have been awake. Strikingly, inhibiting one of these regions reduces sleep by 70%, without the major behavioral deficits associated with sleep deprivation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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