Carolina Rezaval

Professor @unibirmingham, investigating how the brain resolves conflicts. @FENSKavliNet Scholar

bluesky: @crezaval.bsky.social

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Honoured to receive a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to study how competition is encoded in the brain.

https://t.co/bQUxTpBE0W

This builds on the discoveries of great past/present lab members

Grateful to mentors/collaborators/colleagues for their support

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

We’re recruiting!

Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a @wellcometrust:

• Postdoctoral researchers
• Research assistant/PhD students

Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making.

Deadline 26/04

Apply here: https://t.co/qtysReXMIr

@SAN_neuroAr

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Honoured to receive a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to study how competition is encoded in the brain.

https://t.co/bQUxTpBE0W

This builds on the discoveries of great past/present lab members

Grateful to mentors/collaborators/colleagues for their support

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

We're recruiting postdocs, research assistant and PhD students. Please get in touch! More info: https://t.co/5HMJJSVSJi

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Honoured to receive a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to study how competition is encoded in the brain.

https://t.co/bQUxTpBE0W

This builds on the discoveries of great past/present lab members

Grateful to mentors/collaborators/colleagues for their support

[Arkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov]

📣 New publication 📣

Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @NiklasBuergi Gökhan Aydogan @ChristianCRuff

(1/n)

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

The School of Biosciences
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
is recruiting five Assistant/Associate Professors working across a range of areas, including neuroscience. Join a vibrant interdisciplinary research environment. Deadline: 14 April 2026

https://t.co/YmLWqSbGy5

#NeuroJobs

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

The School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham is recruiting Assistant or Associate Professors (Research & Education). Areas of interest: • Engineering biology • Epigenetics • Mycology • Plant science • RNA biology

https://t.co/YmLWqSbGy5

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Starvation suppresses shock responses only with food odours, via a defined neuromodulatory circuit that biases action selection towards goal-directed behaviour.

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Our new preprint is out! A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts

https://t.co/EU1TlxQKD6

Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, featuring Şevval Demirci.

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

To survive, animals must balance opportunity and risk. We show that hunger gates nociceptive avoidance in Drosophila, enabling food approach under conflict.

[Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @MCCStweets]

Meet the #MCCS25 speakers!

Check out talks from Drs. @crezaval & Priya Rajasethupathy at our Symposium on November 14.

Register now: https://t.co/MG06VRhGBu

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

@ChengHuangThu impressive!

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Where do the dopamine hits does from? A new reward center in the brain is discovered (yes, single cell, spatial omics at work again)
@ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/S75R6yq7Vp
https://t.co/euAX1bAcqq

[Dan Tracey @Hoosierflyman]

Nice news coverage of our work! Velvet ants have the Swiss Army knife of venoms https://t.co/8Aqjgsk8QJ

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

@MeitalOren Fantastic!

[Meital Oren-Suissa @MeitalOren]

In time for the new year! Our single-cell dataset of male and hermaphrodite brains is online! & a freely available website https://t.co/ys4sdHhdNE
A Blueprint of Sex-Specific Neuronal Regulation in the C. elegans Nervous System at Single-Cell Resolution https://t.co/23p1ELw8zd

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

If you want to learn more about our work, check out this thread.

https://t.co/RC3PrjJ5vj

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our @Nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict.

We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating.

https://t.co/ZZ0UoKTqgn

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Previously, it was also highlighted in a dispatch article @CurrentBiology by @KatrinVogt3

https://t.co/xJJveaRClN

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

We're delighted to see our study, "Mating proximity blinds threat perception", https://t.co/h5WxRpn2Ge, featured by @NatureSMB

Thank you for spotlighting our work!

https://t.co/js1dkypHdc

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

@TareqSaquib @unibirmingham thank you!

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

@RayesDiego @eLife @NakedScientists Congrats @RayesDiego et al!