Susanna Molas

Hiring: Research Technician and Postdoctoral opportunities!
My lab is looking for candidates to join or research in systems neuroscience at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago @uofilsystem.bsky.social. See details below. Please share! lujanlabuic.squarespace.com/joinus

Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning

🎊So excited to share our new publication! We identified a novel circuit underlying threat processing and adaptive learning. Deeply grateful to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social and all the co-authors who made this possible! @ibg.colorado.edu @umasschan.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Such a pleasure to have Moriel Zelikowsky visit us at CU Boulder! An incredible scientist and amazing person! Looking forward to connect again soon!

🚨 Last Days to Apply! Submit your application for the postdoctoral position in my lab! We'll be starting interviews very soon!
If you have any questions or want to learn more about the position, feel free to reach out — happy to chat!

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ACNP Travel Award Submissions open on Thursday, March 31, 2025. For more information, visit https://t.co/zSCC9OJZ51 #ACNP2026 #travelawards

🧪🧠2 weeks left for EARLY bird registration!
Neurobiology of social behaviors meeting- ESC Coimbra 2025!

Join us in Coimbra (Portugal) for intense discussions and exciting science on Social Neuroscience.
esc-coimbra2025.cnc.uc.pt

🚨Hiring Alert: Postdoctoral Opportunity!🚨 My lab is looking for a passionate postdoc to join our research in systems neuroscience @colorado.edu @ibg.colorado.edu. See details below. Please share!
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#Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity #SystemsNeuroscience

Good science and amazing discussions in the I Meeting of the Spanish Network of the Stress Research 🤩
#REIS
#Bilbao
#UPV
#Grenec-Neurobio
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Dear #WCBR2025 attendees: Don’t miss the presentation by my graduate student, Elora Williams - WCBR Travel Awardee. She’s an outstanding presenter and will be sharing new data on OUD. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated! @ibg.colorado.edu

Anyone who studies schizophrenia or major depression want to give a talk on Sunday at #WCBR2025? We have unexpectedly had a speaker drop out. It’s a great opportunity!

Our Perspective article on the neuroscience of addiction remission will appear in the February 2025 issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Kudos to first author Michel Engeln who did all the heavy lifting!

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

Projecting neurons from lateral entorhinal cortex to basolateral amygdala mediate the encoding of incidental odor-taste associations Daily choices are determined by prior direct or indirect associations between low-salience cues and reinforcers. In this study, we used a mouse odor-taste sensory preconditioning task combined with ge...

And today, happy to share the second preprint from the lab: Projecting neurons from lateral entorhinal cortex to basolateral amygdala mediate the encoding of incidental odor-taste associations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy Holidays from the Molas Lab! @ibg.colorado.edu

It was fun to write this article with Gaby and thank you @bensaunders.bsky.social @bellonec.bsky.social for the opportunity!

"How dopamine enables learning from aversion"

🔜 I think we're in for a lot more cool science on this topic in the next few years

Paper figure showing Allen Inst snRNAseq UMAPs of genes marking dopamine neuron clusters, relevant channels, and receptors

Nothing says cozy reading by the fireplace like our new review, “Molecular heterogeneity and development of the VTA”
Thanks @bensaunders.bsky.social and @bellonec.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this special issue on #Dopamine!
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