📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026.

We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control

www.levine-lab.org

Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving Nature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and...

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.

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Potentiation of active locomotor state by spinal-projecting serotonergic neurons Fenstermacher et al. map the structure and activity of spinal-projecting serotonergic neurons and show that 5-HT populations are engaged in a context-dependent manner during locomotion. Activation of ...

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Where does learning through imitation happen in the brain?

In juvenile zebra finches, we pinpoint a synaptic locus of song learning in a cortico-basal ganglia circuit and leverage this localization to measure the timescale of consolidation and make birds learn faster! #neuroskyence (1/14)

Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn The dorsal horn of the mammalian spinal cord is organized into laminae where each layer is populated by different neuron types, has distinctive circuit connections, and plays specialized roles in beha...

Excited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org

This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations, Ariel! It looks great.

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Complementary cortical and thalamic contributions to cell-type-specific striatal activity dynamics during movement Coordinated motor behavior emerges from information flow across brain regions. How long-range inputs drive cell-type-specific activity within motor circuits remains unclear. The dorsolateral striatum ...

pretty cool

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are hiring a new research assistant! Official job post to follow. Please reach out or visit markrossilab.org if you are interested.

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Postdoctoral Associate: Corticospinal Circuits for Skilled Movement - New York City, New York job with Nelson Lab at New York University | 38767 Join the Nelson Lab at NYU to study how corticospinal circuits enable skilled behavior.

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📣📣📣 This is a call for PhD students in neuroscience!

✅ Are you a senior PhD student in neuroscience? 🧠
✅ Looking for career development opportunities?💼
✅ Want to visit NYC in spring?🗽
✅ Considering a postdoc at NYU? 🥼
✅Apply for CoNNExINS!
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Deadline extended to April 11th!

And science continues… check out our new work led by @rbrianroome.bsky.social

Differential modification of ascending spinal outputs in acute and chronic pain states Yarmolinsky et al. characterize the sensory tuning of mouse spinal projection neurons under normal conditions and in acute and chronic pain hypersensitivity. Using longitudinal in vivo calcium imaging...

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Same here. I've been pushing hard the past 6 months on my resubmission! Now what?

A brain-wide map of descending inputs onto spinal V1 interneurons Chapman et al. generate a brain-wide atlas of supraspinal inputs to cervical V1 interneurons. Monosynaptic input arises from over two dozen brain regions, some of which preferentially innervate molecu...

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Cell-type-specific auditory responses in the striatum are shaped by feedforward inhibition How neurons in the posterior striatum encode auditory information is not well understood. Druart et al. report that direct pathway neurons in the striatum respond more strongly to auditory stimuli. Th...

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Pharmacological blocking of spinal GABAA receptors in monkeys reduces sensory transmission to the spinal cord, thalamus, and cortex Mahrous et al. examine the controversial role of GABAARs in sensory transmission in the monkey cervical spinal cord. They find that blocking spinal GABAARs reduces sensory input to both motoneurons an...

More compelling evidence that axoaxonal GABA release in the spinal cord can increase sensory transmission. Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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✅ Are you a senior PhD student in neuroscience? 🧠
✅ Looking for career development opportunities?💼
✅ Want to visit NYC in spring?🗽
✅ Considering a postdoc at NYU? 🥼
✅Apply for CoNNExINS!
wp.nyu.edu/connexins/

Please RT!

Submit a Sidewalk Shed for the Sheddies The sidewalks of our city should be safe, clean, and welcoming. Unfortunately, scaffolding and sidewalk sheds have made our sidewalks places New Yorkers now steer clear of. Not only are sidewalk sheds...

Nice shot. Certainly not a contestant for the Sheddies: www.nysenate.gov/questionnair...

We are now accepting applications for 2025 Connexins! This is an in person symposium for senior graduate students to share their works with the NYU neuroscience community. Please RT!!! wp.nyu.edu/connexins/

It's official, the Rich lab is now part of the Center for Neural Science at NYU! I'm thrilled to be joining CNS! At the same time, I'll miss my amazing colleagues at Sinai (even though we're not going far).

Here's to new adventures in the new year!🥂

This year WPI reformulated Kwik-Cast to have a lower concentration of pigment. This increases the shelf stability of the product but unfortunately makes it transparent. Are there alternative cold-curing and biocompatible products?

old school 🤝 new school

old school 🤝 new school