Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD

🚨 Reminder: Applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now OPEN!

Don’t miss your chance to join an incredible week of science, discovery, and connection with the brightest minds in optogenetics 💡🧠

Apply now for the best chance of acceptance: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

Introducing co-vice chair @gisellavetere.bsky.social!

Gisella is a team leader at @espciparispsl.bsky.social and is most excited about the immersive exchange and new ideas #OptoGRC2026 will inspire.

Fun fact: when she’s not studying neurons, you can find her spinning on a pole 💃💪

In 2016, the first Opto GRC was created to bring together scientists pushing the boundaries of optogenetics research 🧠🌟

Join us to celebrate 10 incredible years of collaboration and discovery—applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now open!

Apply now: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026!

We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues.

More details coming soon👇🏽
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It's time to meet your #OptoGRC2026 chairs!

Co-vice chair @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social is an assistant professor at @princeton.edu who spent the summer building a van for weekend adventures 🚐✨

She's most looking forward to meeting new people & exploring areas outside of her usual wheelhouse!

Smiling scientists taking a selfie!

You know SfN will be awesome when you run into old friends and meet new ones before the conference even starts!!

Thank you @bjmarlin.bsky.social @thiagoarzua.com and @stutzman-alexis.bsky.social for stopping by on Friday!

Also @nbaumgar.bsky.social (not pictured…yet!!!)

Marlin Lab Posters & Talks

Postdoc Posters

Marlin Lab #SfN2025✨

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

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Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

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Profiling Maternal Behavior Responses During Whole-Brain Imaging Recent advancements in whole-brain imaging tools have enabled neuroscientists to investigate how coordinated brain activity processes external cues, ...

In this methods protocol, we report differences in spontaneous, head-fixed behavioral responses to pup calls between mothers and naïve virgins and share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments.

Profiling Maternal Behavior Responses During Whole-Brain Imaging Recent advancements in whole-brain imaging tools have enabled neuroscientists to investigate how coordinated brain activity processes external cues, ...

🚨New Marlin Lab publication✨ app.jove.com/v/67112/prof...

In this #JoVE, we share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments (🧵1/2)

Led @brimcr.bsky.social & @AmirLawen, a @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social collab w/ @ItamarKahn.

Thank you Pew Trust for this honor. Thank you to my amazing communities who have supported me and our “radical and rigorous, ambitious and meticulous,” Marlin Lab Science .✨

Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD

Congratulations to @bjmarlin.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Pew Biomedical Scholar! Her research dives deep into what is innate, what is learned and what is chosen by biology to be passed down from generation to generation. 🧠 🌟
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Thanks @hypothesisfund.bsky.social! I’m thankful for you and our beautiful community ✨

Big congrats to Hypothesis Fund Awardee @bjmarlin.bsky.social! We're proud early supporters of her research on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, and can't wait to see what she'll discover next! Go Bianca! 🌟

Come celebrate with me - I’m telling a story at @storycollider.bsky.social 15th anniversary show on June 3! ✨🧪

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A collaborative study between the labs of @danmucida.bsky.social and @victora.bsky.social earlier this year showed how immune cells in the gut distinguish between food and harmful pathogens, shedding light on the origins of food allergies: bit.ly/4hyS18b

#FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek

🧵 1\New Preprint! Social pain, the emotional pain caused by aversive experiences with other individuals, is an umbrella term that includes experiences such as social isolation, social exclusion, social rejection, and social loss and can be used as a signal to drive a need state

✨Valentine’s Defense Day ✨

We invite you to learn from #MarlinLab ‘s Val Andreu learn why “Mother *Nose* Best!”

Today marks the first World Hormones Day!
🧠🫀 Hormones are the body’s messengers, guiding us through each phase of life with their subtle yet powerful influence 🙌🏼
@socendocrinology.bsky.social @women-in-endo.bsky.social @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
📸: Prof.Catteau Jonard at the ESE annual meeting

Dr. Marlin, a Black woman neuroscientist, is smiling proudly in her lab space. She’s wearing a white shirt, simple necklace, small hoop earrings, dark red lipstick and has a beautifully shaved head.

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠

The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭

#BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social

Six women stand close together, smiling at the camera in a well-lit indoor space with arched windows at a professional conference. The background features black-framed doors and a glimpse of palm trees outside.

Attended my first @cziscience.bsky.social #Neuroscience 2025 Meeting 🧠

Grateful to speak alongside such amazing theorists, see old & new friends & connect across academia & industry

Shoutout to @bjmarlin.bsky.social, @muraronara.bsky.social , @erinmgibson.bsky.social & all these wonderful folks🌟

The Brain Observatory's Brain Explorer Camp

Today, for #BrainAwarenessWeek I want to share this brainy map commissioned by The Brain Observatory for last Summer's Brain Explorer Camp.

If you pass by San Diego, make sure to check out this little hidden gem of a museum: www.thebrainobservatory.org 🧠

#SciArt #neuroscience

A giant brain at the center of a futuristic city, radiating a complex network of roads (a metaphor for the peripheral nervous system)

Since it's #brainawareness week, I want to take a break from the ongoing dystopia to celebrate my favorite organ and repost some of my favorite #neuroscience #sciart!

Let's start with this #scifi brain city I just made for an upcoming Italian graphic novel 🧠 🏙

#cervello #comics #graphicmedicine

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
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Sunday planner time is my golden hour ✨ 📖 ☕️

Marlin Lab’s @nourmimouni.bsky.social ✨

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women advancing scientific discovery and working towards a better world. Like postdoc @nourmimouni.bsky.social, a neuroendocrinologist and champion for women’s health. Discover her story: tinyurl.com/53mue4pn
#womeninscience