Ames Sutton Hickey

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇

"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I LOVE this!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Building a strong neuroscience community means actively supporting emerging researchers.

Tonight’s Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.

Drop by! 🔗 sfn.org/ecps

#neurosky #SfN25

In the Monday PM session, postdoc @taymccork.bsky.social is updating y'all on our findings about dietary fat sources driving obesity (teaser: those plant-based diets are just as bad!) in the late-breaking posters (LBP171). 🍔

In the Monday AM poster session, PhD trainee Sushma Hegde will show sex-divergent baseline behavioral predictors to weight loss susceptibility in activity-based anorexia in the late-breaking posters (LBP144). 🏃

Tonight, MiNDS scholars Ava Bellino and Dami Adeyemi are demonstrate how we are leveraging SLEAP to quantify mouse behaviors across activity-based anorexia and food aversion paradigms, respectively. 🎉

The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!

Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning - Nature Neuroscience Ravenelle et al. show that systematically increasing serotonin has sex-specific effects on fear learning in mice. In females only, increasing serotonin in the BNST enhances fear memory by promoting co...

Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning in mice

@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social

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

Future of NIH in the hands of five senators.

Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy

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🎉Celebrated @thefortylab.bsky.social’s move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan

I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!

She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬

It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.

Reggie Miller and Larry Bird figurines hanging from an office basketball hoop in Ames' office

Uncle Reggie and Larry Legend are out here trying to help me beat my Pacers sadness today #NBAsky #Cers

My Cers 💔💔💔

A simple action reduces high-fat diet intake and obesity in mice Diets that are high in fat cause overeating and weight gain in multiple species of animals, suggesting that high dietary fat is sufficient to cause ob…

This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Energy state guides reward seeking via an extended amygdala to lateral hypothalamus pathway - Nature Communications The lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) mediates reward seeking. Here, the authors show how LHA afferent connections promote reward seeking by shaping synaptic strength according to energy state, processe...

Excited to share our latest paper led by Kuldeep Shrivastava out now in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🫥🫥🫥 ....yes.

The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation or… "Reparative" or "conversion" therapy is a dangerous practice that targets LGBTQ youth and seeks to change their sexual or gender identities.

We know ‘conversion therapy’ doesn’t work because many of us have been subjected to it and still bear the consequences of it today. We will not allow another generation of young LGBTQ+ people to bear this burden. Learn more: www.hrc.org/resources/th...

Somehow, in some way, it keeps hurting, more, and more, and more.

WHAT that just blew my mind

Ames sitting on a zoom call on her back patio with her cat looking ahead in the same direction

The only vibes that matter these days are Ola on zoom call vibes.

WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr.

"What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"

Bummer - I am so sorry to hear this, Kevin. Thank you for standing up for your science and being such a wonderful mentor. Sending you strength!

The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague!

jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...

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We are (sadly) replacing our wonderful research tech who is headed to grad school in the fall. If you, or anyone you know, may be interested, please consider applying! Please RT. @latinasinneuro.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social #LGBTQInNeuro

temple.taleo.net/careersectio...

I don’t know how it’s possible, but my heart keeps breaking. 💔🏳️‍⚧️ Sending love to my trans and queer community. Rest and recover, and then resist. 🚫

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