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Isabella Wagner

@isabellacwagner.bsky.social

Assistant professor at University of Vienna • Cognitive neuroscience • Gut microbiome-brain interactions • Neuroimaging • Neural plasticity & memory • Aging & dementia

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Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...

✨My first first-author paper is out✨
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social

20.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 62    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 1

New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com by PhD candidate Luise Graichen ➡️ saccades 👁️are tied to grid-like codes 🕸️ in the entorhinal cortex 🧠during memory formation: rdcu.be/eLRm2

Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social

20.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

26.06.2025 16:53 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Final call to all Austrian microbiome researchers! Extended deadline for the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025 is June 10th! Submit your MSc/PhD thesis or paper to gain recognition. Find more info at microplanet.at. Don't miss out!
@fwf-at.bsky.social

06.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
Senior Scientist Senior Scientist

Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna!
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

04.06.2025 16:36 — 👍 7    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1
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We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

15.05.2025 08:24 — 👍 19    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1

Wooowww congrats!! 💐💐🙏

08.05.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nice!! I’ve been looking forward to more of your bread content! :)

05.05.2025 04:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...

Excited to share our new study:

"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"

by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

24.04.2025 15:00 — 👍 100    🔁 33    💬 5    📌 8
3y_PhDposition_univie_ScanUnit.pdf

🚨 Come work with us!

3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.

More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2

Please share widely 🔁

16.04.2025 10:55 — 👍 29    🔁 38    💬 1    📌 5

We are looking for an excellent and highly motivated PhD student in Chemical Biology for a position in our group within the AIDD docfunds program @univie.ac.at to investigate anti-infectives from antagonistic microbial interactions. Apply until 03.05.2025:
vds-phanuspo.univie.ac.at/application/...

22.04.2025 17:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Clinical trials test the safety of stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Two clinical trials show that it is safe, but more evidence is needed to prove its effectiveness.

Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease

https://go.nature.com/4cxFWPk

16.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 80    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2
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Polyglot brains A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.

Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.

01.04.2025 20:01 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

28.03.2025 07:06 — 👍 122    🔁 140    💬 1    📌 3
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🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology

27.03.2025 15:26 — 👍 70    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 3
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A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation Memory consolidation is thought to rely on the interplay of sleep-related brain oscillations. Drawing on recent findings that highlight the influence of respiration on these rhythms, we outline a fram...

In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social

23.03.2025 19:17 — 👍 36    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 2

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

21.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 1844    🔁 793    💬 51    📌 42
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

20.03.2025 18:36 — 👍 483    🔁 165    💬 20    📌 22
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A new Master in Microbiome Science 🦠🧫🔬👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 @univie.ac.at

Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025

studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

#microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts

17.03.2025 09:55 — 👍 31    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1
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Waarom de ene persoon gevoeliger is voor PTSS dan de andere Waarom krijgt de een na een schokkende gebeurtenis posttraumatische stress en de ander niet? Radboud Universiteit deed hier samen met de Nationale Politie onderzoek naar.
11.03.2025 16:55 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Science Advances’ special issue on women’s health highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Articles cover a range of studies from the interplay between menopause and Alzheimer’s risk to the menstrual cycle’s influence on the brain-heart connection. It also describes the opportunities pregnancy provides to research aspects of both physical and mental health. By prioritizing women’s unique physiological and psychological experiences, research can expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that benefit everyone.

Science Advances’ special issue on women’s health highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Articles cover a range of studies from the interplay between menopause and Alzheimer’s risk to the menstrual cycle’s influence on the brain-heart connection. It also describes the opportunities pregnancy provides to research aspects of both physical and mental health. By prioritizing women’s unique physiological and psychological experiences, research can expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that benefit everyone.

A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.

Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)

11.03.2025 19:46 — 👍 292    🔁 83    💬 4    📌 11

New preprint together with Jingyuan Ren, @dresler.bsky.social and others on unique neural representations in one’s “memory palace” 🧠

02.03.2025 11:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

24.02.2025 18:13 — 👍 185    🔁 51    💬 5    📌 10
Common octopus

Common octopus

I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

22.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 373    🔁 134    💬 15    📌 7
Graphical abstract from the paper depicting the overall study design

Graphical abstract from the paper depicting the overall study design

Updated from the preprint, our paper, "Spatiotemporal analysis of gene expression in the human dentate gyrus reveals age-associated changes in cellular maturation and neuroinflammation" is now published.

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

22.02.2025 02:49 — 👍 120    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 3
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American chaos: standing up for health and medicine Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

The Lancet, considered by some to be the world's leading medical journal (no, it is not a radical-Marxist-left-wing-rag), is living up to its well-deserved reputation and is not mincing words about the Musk administration's actions and their consequences: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

09.02.2025 08:46 — 👍 172    🔁 89    💬 7    📌 6
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Special Issue on Scientific Histories of Hippocampal Research: Hippocampus Hippocampus is an international neuroscience journal exploring the hippocampal formation and its interactions with other brain regions.

Check out this issue of Hippocampus dedicated to recollections of big milestones in memory, hippocampus, and LTP research!

I'm to read Elisabeth Murray on studies challenging the role of the hippocampus in anterograde amnesia.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

#neuroskyence

31.01.2025 20:16 — 👍 25    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

After years of work designing and running this study with a multi-University team, we have our first preprint 🎉🎉 showing how a memorization technique builds neural representations through conjunctive representations! See thread and preprint link ⬇️

27.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

SPM goes Python for its 30 year anniversary! Great news for #neuroimaging! 👍

24.01.2025 23:12 — 👍 42    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1

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