Silvana Valtcheva

Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits - Nature The anterior cingulate cortex encodes affective pain behaviours modulated by opioids; targeting opioid-sensitive neurons through a new chemogenetic gene therapy replicates the analgesic effects of morphine, providing precise chronic pain relief without affecting sensory detection.

Nature research paper: Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits

go.nature.com/3L6vhCd

Mom Brain or Mental Over-Load? What if Mom Brain had more to do with the Mental Load of Motherhood...check out my @substack.com for more. https://drjodipawluski.substack.com/

Mäuse schnuppern an Grapefruits und haben dann keinen Hunger mehr: Wie praktisch: Geruch kann satt machen Kölner Wissenschaftler finden einen überraschenden Auslöser für Sättigungsgefühl – nämlich das Riechen. Ein neuer Weg zum Schlankwerden? Leider funktioniert es bis jetzt nur bei Mäusen.

Thrilled our discovery of a novel sensory pathway controlling satiety in mice is featured in the General-Anzeiger @gabonn 🐭👃🍽️!

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Kölner Studie: Geruch macht satt (zumindest Mäuse) ga.de/news/wissen-...

Go ahead and apply to the @cga-age.bsky.social ⚡⚡

We are looking for a PhD student
www.ageing-grad-school.de/phd/host-lab...

📢🚨Teamassistenz gesucht! Unterstützen Sie die Abteilung Neurobiologie 🧠 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social – bitte weitersagen.
📢🚨 We’re hiring an administrative assistant in the Department of Neurobiology! Spread the word.
⏳Deadline: 15. September 2025
Learn more & apply: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...

Photo of Professor Tiago Branco, SWC Group Leader with the quote "I am delighted to receive this Wellcome Discovery Award. It is a testament to the lab and will allow us to pursue an exciting new research direction."

Congratulations to Professor Tiago Branco on receiving a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award.

His lab will investigate how the brain sets sensitivity to threat, and how both genetics and experience shape this threshold.

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

Apply now for a fully funded #PhD position at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research and become part of our vibrant #AgingResearch commmuny.
🗓️ Deadline: November 3, 2025.
ℹ️ More info: www.ageing-grad-school.de
📣 Spread the news!

Thanks Johannes!

📣 Attention neuroscience grad students and postdocs! Only one week left to apply for NeuroMEETS. Present your research, visit MPFI as an invited speaker, and connect with our faculty. Travel, lodging, and an honorarium included. Don't miss out! Apply by July 15 and share with peers. buff.ly/dqXZnTU

Understanding the Brain's Response to Motherhood Silvana Valtcheva's research group studies neuroplasticity in the maternal brain during the postpartum period.

www.sf.mpg.de/2112068/Silv...

🚨 Calling all early-career researchers!

Applications are now open for the #FENS/#IBRO-PERC #ExchangeFellowships Programme – don't miss out! 🌟

🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025
👉 https://loom.ly/DhYSWlQ

@ibroorg.bsky.social

Attention Neuroscience Postdocs:
Call for speakers for the 2026 SPiNES lecture is now open!
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Heading to EBBS? (ebbs2025.azuleon.org) Don’t miss our session (co-chaired with Suzanne Dickson) on how physiological states shape behavior. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers (Linda Engström-Ruud, @amdouglass.bsky.social, @neuronico.bsky.social, @neuroadept.bsky.social). See you in Bordeaux! 🍷

🔬 Join us for the next #iBehave Seminar!
🧠 Dr. Henning Fenselau @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social on The Synaptic Mechanism of Metabolism Regulation

📅July 4, 2025 | 🕛 12:00 PM
Host: Prof. Grunwald Kadow & Prof. Beck, @unibonn.bsky.social UniklinkBonn

📧Zoom: ibehave@uni-bonn.de

#Neuroscience #Metabolism

Lecturer / Associate Professor - London, England job with University College London (UCL) | 12840324 About usThe Division of Biosciences at UCL is one of the world's foremost centres for research and teaching in the biological sciences. We have an out

🚨🚨Job Alert🚨🚨!! Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology are recruiting a new lecturer/associate professor! an amazing opportunity to join our fantastic dept! @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social post here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity

Last week to register to this amazing conference!!! Cross species cord meeting, you can't miss it!

Thanks a lot for a fantastic #ParentalBrain2025 to @susanacarmona.bsky.social and Oscar Vilarroya, @drjodipawluski.bsky.social and Joe Lonstein. Let’s see where we meet in 2028 😊

Thanks Sanja!

Thank you, Anna!

This wouldn't be possible without the tremendous support from our colleagues at @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social during the critical first 3 years after lab opening in May 2022

Lab news: Excited to join @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social as part of the Lise Meitner Excellence program 🚀 A new era for the (now doubled in size) lab. We keep digging into the postpartum brain and unfolding plasticity layers, you'll hear from us soon.

Epic news & huge congrats!! 🔥🔥

Rise up! funding for Anna Schroeder Anna Schroeder has been awarded funding of around 600,000 euros from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation.

Very grateful 🙏 to have been selected for the Rise up! program from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation 🎉. The €600,000 in funding 💰 will help advance our research into the neural circuits that drive fear, anxiety and emotional behavior @lmumuenchen.bsky.social! 🧠
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

We’re hiring!
The Masseck Lab (University of Cologne) is looking for a full-time Technical Assistant (permanent position).
Focus: neuroscience, behavior experiments, and cell culture.
Apply by May 1st → jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
#JobAlert #Neuroscience #LabTech #BTA #UniCologne

New preprint ✍️🚨

✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling

-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups

tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc

👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social

My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date

Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour.

Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org

Reduced Notch signaling in hypothalamic endothelial cells mediates obesity-induced alterations in glucose uptake and insulin signaling Short-term transition to high-fat diet (HFD) feeding causes rapid changes in the molecular architecture of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), BBB permeabi…

A thread 🧵: Our study redefines current concepts of insulin entry into the brain under conditions of nutritional excess.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@www.helmholtz-munich.de @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social

Dr. Graziana Gatto — Stories of WiN studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Graziana Gatto (@ggatto.bsky.social)
studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.

Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

cosyne 2025 talk: Projection-specific cortical processing of vocalizations, Friday 3/28 5:15

Who’s at #COSYNE2025 ? Excited to present my postdoc work on projection-specific and multi-area auditory processing of (mouse) baby cries on Friday: