Timmy Lê

🎃 Don't drink and fly...driving is a bad idea, too! 👻 The best way to celebrate Halloween is to brush up on your #NIAAA #RethinkingDrinking resources 🎃

Link: rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov

The big question is if our Chair will give this seminar in a costume? 🤔

Miso Mac N Cheese? Yeah, why not

@wickedneuro.bsky.social she got an entire condition all on her own today!!!

Same issue when I coached wrestling #CPChatNow

Thanks! I went into lab the next day and all of my friends told me to go home 🤣 #CPChatNow

UMass Chan scientists show how the non-neuronal brain cells communicate to coordinate rewiring of brain A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, explains how two different cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input.

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, in Cell explains how cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input to remodel synapses: direc.to/nJHH

Alzheimer’s and ALS patients have synaptic damage.

@travisfaust.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social

Can always count on @femmeinstem.bsky.social and the Winder Lab for hyping you up!

How do opioids disrupt the brain’s internal clock, and how does this differ between sexes? Our new study uses RNAseq to examine the suprachiasmatic nucleus across different opioid exposure states in genetically diverse rats. ✨https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772392525000458

Uhh…10 days #CPChatNow

Small win! #CPChatNow

I heard about how they climbed back to the top of the AL Central #CPChatNow

This bed feels like a faraday cage 🤣

Cream tabby Maine Coon cat staring intensely at the camera

so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know

- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures

That sounds very interesting! Going to put it on my reading list!

My 8 yo cousin just asked me what part of the brain is responsible for his love of potato chips

First cell patched!

What’s more interesting is fetal alcohol syndrome is a hot topic of the 1960’s and 70’s. But the earliest evidence of investigating sex differences was in 1989? It seems like someone realized they should start studying the effects of alcohol on female rodents AFTHER giving them alcohol for decades

What really blows my mind right now is that human civilization has been consuming alcohol since 7000 BC, but alcohol research in CNS has only been relatively recent. Early evidence in the literature…1948 AD (to be clear). That’s definitely a huge gap. Earliest study examining sex differences? 1989

A view of an ornate ceiling and two pigeons looking a the photographer. Caption reads: The photographer was lying on the ground, trying to shoot this ceiling. The pigeons were concerned.

two police officers are sitting at a table talking to each other and one of them is saying `` pain '' . ALT: two police officers are sitting at a table talking to each other and one of them is saying `` pain '' .

#CPChatNow

I finished a draft of my dissertation last week #CPChatNow

Nice!!!!

My project is done, it’s in peer review right now. The post doc (he has his own lab now) in lab led a study on identifying a group of neurons that functions to stop binge drinking. I’m planning to finish in August, so just right there #CPChatNow

My lab discovered something cool! And it’s published! #CPChatNow

Gilles Martin identifies neurons associated with the suppression of binge drinking UMass Chan researchers identify neural ensemble that suppresses binge drinking

Gilles E. Martin, PhD, identifies a group of 500 neurons associated with the suppression of binge drinking: direc.to/npLM

Suppression of binge alcohol drinking by an inhibitory neuronal ensemble in the mouse medial orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience This study demonstrates that high alcohol concentrations during binge drinking activate a small GABAergic neuronal ensemble in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, which subsequently reduces further alcoh...

🚨 I am pleased to share w/ everyone a new Nature #Neuroscience paper led by Dr. Pablo Gimenez-Gomez from the lab of Dr. Gilles Martin @umasschan.bsky.social

In this paper, we found a specific #alcohol activated neuronal ensemble that functions to suppress binge drinking behavior.

#AlcoholResearch

Still want to be a professional pierogi eater if anyone is wondering

Building bridges: Worcester Magazine's top college volunteers of '25 change people's lives Every year, Worcester Magazine honors college students who have dedicated countless hours to volunteering and serving their communities.

I feel honored to have been selected by UMass Chan to represent the university as this year’s college volunteer for my work as a K-12 science outreach volunteer in the Worcester, MA public school system.

We also have a Dunkin every mile that makes your coffee differently from the other ones