Mena Lab

Systems Neuroscience Lab at @RutgersU interested in dissecting neuronal circuits underlying behavior

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

@hb_cell @biorxivpreprint @CSHL Agree, honorable and free. "There will be some way"... that's what we are trying to figure out. There isn't (so far, after one full week already trying). No email addresses besides the one above, no contacts listed. No regulation, no transparency. But BIG responsibility.

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

Who is behind the email [email protected] in @biorxivpreprint? Honest question. Is it an editor? IT staff? Interns? Terrible handling of a very delicate situation. No accountability. Maybe @CSHL can help? We just need a name, a real person, instead of anonymized empty replies.

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

@hb_cell @lab_bevan @biorxiv_neursci Thank you for your interest, but it is not my intention to have a trial by Twitter. Rather, to have @biorxivpreprint react to my repeated requests of removing from their server plagiarized data originated in my lab and stopping its wrongful dissemination.

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

Our lab has been intentionally plagiarized by a former postdoc and the data posted in @biorxiv_neursci. Not only that, but the manuscript contains misleading information despite the author knowing about it, who also negated us from examining the raw data.

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

@lab_bevan @biorxiv_neursci Thanks, Mark. Every single piece of data in this manuscript was collected in my lab. A betrayal of this magnitude from a former lab member hurts and brings the whole lab morale down.

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

We requested the removal of the fraudulent material 72 h ago, nothing has happened.

We’ve always been enthusiastic about preprint servers for quick dissemination of honest results but not as an unruly haven for scientific fraud.

Is there anybody listening in @biorxivpreprint?

[Drew B. Headley @DrewBHeadley]

Psyched to be starting as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers-Newark, with an R01, in January ‘23. Now I just have to get the second one…

[Andreas Horn @andreashorn_]

Last talk for the day by Nadine Gut on PPN and gait modulation #optoDBS2022

[Elizabeth Holly @ENHolly]

Very happy to share that the Holly Lab will be opening at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience @Rutgers_Newark in Jan 2023! We’ll study the neural circuits driving decision making, and how these circuits and behaviors are changed by stress. Recruiting @ all levels

[McGinty Neuroeconomics Lab @McGintyNeuro]

Please RT: We are hiring! Seeking a postdoc. research scientist, or advanced technician for an externally funded project on multi-focal neural ⚡️stimulation ⚡️ and value-based decisions in nonhuman primates. Requirements: Must love the 🍾🍿🍾 of in-vivo neural activity...

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

In addition, we found striking similarities with parkinsonian features, such as the impairment of voluntary movement while other motor activity is preserved (e.g. forced locomotion), a phenomenon in PD that is referred to as paradoxical kinesis.
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[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

Purposive movement (but NOT overall motor behavior) is modulated by an inhibitory group of neurons in the midbrain that regulate dopamine release in the striatum. Our latest manuscript led by @nadinekgut is now available in BioRxiv (thread 👇).
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https://t.co/pC6LAmJ7ZK

[Mena Lab @MenaNeuroLab]

Our results expand the role of the mesencephalic locomotor region and highlight the influence of this region in basal ganglia function.
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