Brenna McMannon

grad student @PrincetonNeuro | previously @Vassar ‘21 @vcneuroscience | she/her 🧠

[UVM Men's Soccer @UVMmsoccer]

𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣���𝗢𝗡𝗦!

KISSEL WITH THE WINNER
#MCollegeCup | #LetsRally

[Princeton University @Princeton]

Congratulations to #PrincetonU professor @IlanaWitten who has been named to the 2024 cohort of #HHMIInvestigators by @HHMINEWS!

Witten's research investigates the brain circuits behind learning and decision-making. https://t.co/huUml8asIL

[Chris Zimmerman @ZimmermanNeuro]

How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects, like food poisoning 🤢🤮, that arise minutes or hours later? My new preprint with @IlanaWitten digs into how the brain solves this credit assignment problem. 1/4 https://t.co/aTYl5hQ1dk

[Lindsay Willmore @lindsaywillmore]

Final piece of my PhD thesis published @NeuroCellPress 🧠 Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in mouse VTA dopamine neurons 🐭 Pushed over the finish line by the awesome @AddieMinerva, @IlanaWitten, @Cate_cholamine, @bmcmannon https://t.co/lUuvYBICBq 🧵

[International Brain Laboratory @IntlBrainLab]

We are excited to present a Brain-Wide Map of neural activity during a complex decision-making behavior, a product of the monumental effort of 22 labs: 547 Neuropixels recordings in 267 brain regions from 115 mice collected in 11 labs 🐭 (1/8)
https://t.co/5W0RqM6xpB

[Lindsay Willmore @lindsaywillmore]

🧠 New preprint from a great team 🌟 @AddieMinerva @IlanaWitten @Cate_cholamine @bmcmannon @muruganmalu 🔬we saw overlapping sets of VTA DA cells responsive to food and social stimuli & tracked these cells across motivation states. ➕ compared snRNAseq from VTA across states. 🧬

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

A day to remember.

We think you might enjoy these, Reds...😁

[Victoria Corbit is leaving 👋 c u at bsky @VCorbit]

It's a bit sad to leave a career I put so much of myself into, but all change involves loss, and I am very excited for a new chapter.

Will NOT miss driving ~2hr every time I go to lab 🚗
WILL miss the amazing people I got to work with the last 3yr 💜 (some pictured here) 6/

[Brenna McMannon @bmcmannon]

happy #FluorescenceFriday from @PrincetonNeuro 🧠 2-photon calcium imaging of VTA DA neurons while mouse is getting a sweet treat 🐭🍦

[Brenna McMannon @bmcmannon]

@theiStone @RebekahRashford awesome congrats!!!!!

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

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[Dr. Rachel Lee @rachel_s_l]

Can we update neural models of RL to account for heterogeneous signaling of DA neurons? Read my new preprint with Ben Engelhard, @IlanaWitten, and @nathanieldaw to learn more about our Vector RPE model.
Explainer 🧵below:

[Victoria Corbit is leaving 👋 c u at bsky @VCorbit]

Witten (Stone) lab murder mystery party was a success! SO MANY thanks to my fellow creators @AddieMinerva @AnnaZhukovskaya and brave participants @theiStone @IlanaWitten @bmcmannon @alexpan_neuro @ZimmermanNeuro @lindsaywillmore @Emma_F_K and "murderer" @SagivYotam 😈👻☠💉🔬

[Kristin Winchell @Kmwinchell]

What a beautiful fall morning @Princeton!

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

HAT-TRICK HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lisa Boulanger 🧠🔬🧬 @BoulangerLab]

Are you using AAV to deliver genes to the nervous system? Good news / bad news. https://t.co/rugNaVdOln

First the bad news: we found AAV can shrink dendrites and disrupt synaptic transmission. The good news? We figured out why it happens, and can tell you how to avoid it. (1/n)

[VTDigger @vtdigger]

Hundreds turn out for Winooski High soccer game after superintendent says team faced racist abuse https://t.co/zo8GKzYder

[Ed Clayton @edcclayton]

Big day! Applications for the 2022 @PrincetonNeuro Summer Internship Program are now open! If we're in person (🤞) we've got competitive stipends, travel to and from @Princeton, housing, meals, an incredible research experience and fantastic programming https://t.co/6pschllIfn

[Princeton University @Princeton]

Scientists from #PrincetonU, @AllenInstitute and @BCMFromtheLabs have released data that marries a 3D wiring diagram with the function of tens of thousands of neurons — creating the most detailed examination of mammalian brain circuitry to date. https://t.co/mBfFzG1OUM

[Ryan Cho @ryanjhcho]

Check out our lab’s new preprint! DMS activity is required for making decisions, much more so in a cognitively demanding tasks than simple ones, with D1/D2 to opposite directions. Also its contribution fluctuated as mice change their strategy. @IlanaWitten