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Off to a new adventure in Chicagoland! I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an assistant professor position at @NIUlive ! The Ortiz Neuroscience Lab will be starting this fall! I am forever grateful for all of the people that have helped guide me! TEAM PRAIRIE VOLE!
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Who runs the world? VOLES
As the world warms, scientists are eager to know whether the world’s tundra will continue to pull carbon from the atmosphere. A crucial part of that equation: three-ounce voles. @brdemuth reports: theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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New paper by @LindsaySailer in @CommsBio!
DREADD activation of the lateral septum increases general affiliation for strangers but maintains social selectivity for partners in male #PrairieVoles during a life-history transition in reproductive state
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Heeey prairie vole researchers @VoleBase! Our latest, led by @jeannempowell, examines adult aging and shows that social behavior is plastic not only throughout early development, but also well into adulthood.
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Prairie voles would never have done this
We've been thinking that the Omicron variant evolved from an immunocompromised individual with accelerated in vivo mutations. A new report @PNASNews raises the potential that it emanated from mice -> humans
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Very excited to share the work of Kristen Berendzen and Ruchira Sharma and our collaborators in the @BalesLab and @Shah_Laboratory Strikingly, we find the oxytocin receptor is NOT required for partner preference or parenting behaviors in prairie voles.
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As I put my poster together for the @SBNTweets conference, I made some illustrations of prairie voles at four days old, fifteen days old, and adult voles. Feel free to use them :) I have .svg and .ai for most of them as well!
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Being with friends and family may be a positive experience for some voles but it is merely tolerable to others, suggests a new study elifesciences.org/articles/7…
ALT Two prairie voles stood side by side
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The goal of this research topic is to spotlight the function of oxytocin during challenging periods of life. Thank you to our authors, my co-editors, and the Frontiers team for putting this together. @BowenLabTweets @BenjaminJurek 👏👏👏
📣 Presenting the newly-completed research topic, “The Oxytocin System in Fear, Stress, Anguish, and Pain”.
Read this excellent open-access article collection here 👉 fro.ntiers.in/dF1R
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Excited to share our study of social motivation in prairie and meadow voles. eLife did a great writeup so I don't have to! With Sarah Lopez, Katrina Blandino, @volesinlove, and @natalie_bourdon
elifesciences.org/for-the-pr… . . .
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The Empathy Research Lab is seeking curious scientists at all levels! PhD students, postdocs, research assistants, and lab techs who are curious and excited about science are encouraged to apply! And did I mention that our Department has an open search for Assistant Professors?
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Super excited to share the second paper utilizing our repeated social defeat model in prairie voles! This time we looked at how SSRI or oxytocin (OXT) treatment affected social behavior and neurobiology following defeat in BOTH sexes. A short thread... (1/7)
New article from our lab highlights a sexual convergence of the neurobiology of social anxiety in prairie voles. Chronic schedule of oxytocin reduced stress in females but its complicated. 👀
Great work from Luanne Hale & @mariatickerhoof @ELSneuroscience
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New article from our lab highlights a sexual convergence of the neurobiology of social anxiety in prairie voles. Chronic schedule of oxytocin reduced stress in females but its complicated. 👀
Great work from Luanne Hale & @mariatickerhoof @ELSneuroscience
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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VOLE MEETING 2021 STARTS TOMORROW! Learn about these little creatures that eat ornamental plants, fall in love, can mate while swimming, and live in some very improbable habitats. Make new research connections and gain access to VoleBase! Registration is still open.
Virtual Vole Meeting 2021 is TWO days away! Registration is free and remains open. Come learn about new efforts to distribute resources and the latest research in our growing community (teasers in the thread below!). Details and registration: colorado.edu/project/volecri…
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I'm very excited to introduce something that a number of us have been working on over the last year: The formation of a new Society for Vole Research, along with @VoleBase, a new resource-sharing platform based on the @OSFramework.
microtus.org
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Thanks @evolbrain! Happy to work on this exciting venture... Vole researchers can get access to the database via forms.gle/nDg5qb5oF5uTR3ZZA
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@DrZoePhD, Dev, and the @VoleBase team, are looking forward to sharing these details, along with advances in genetic methods for voles, at the vole meeting online next week.
colorado.edu/project/volecri…
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Lastly, we are looking for folks to help define the structure and scope of our new Society for Vole Research. Nominate someone -- better yet, nominate yourself -- by going here:
microtus.org/team
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Vole are fascinating beasts. Some form pairbonds, others don't. They have strange chromosomes, and diversified very quickly upon arrival in North America. Their ability to form bonds has made them a leading animal model for studying the neural and hormonal mechanisms of bonding.
ALT Photo of a pair of prairie voles with pups by @AubreyMKelly
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First time trying out the use of a pre-print server! bit.ly/3j4uIXa How does social reward relate to preference in prairie voles? With Sarah Lopez, Katrina Blandino, @volesinlove, @natalie_bourdon, @toddhahern