The Mills Lab

[The Mills Lab @themillslab]

With a new lab fridge, fabulous reusable straws, and Costco palettes of sparkling water, life in lab is more civilized than ever 😌 #blessed

[The Mills Lab @themillslab]

Wonderful lab outing climbing at the Front!! Lots of firsts for new climbers, and tons of fun! 😁😁😁

[Fergil Mills @fergilmills]

Come by LBP088 to see the first @themillslab data poster “Valence and Behavior Encoding in the Dorsal Striatum During Fear Learning”!!

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L.A. officially connected to the lab 😎🌴
(Los Angeles not the lateral amygdala)

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The Mills lab is delighted to welcome NGP rotation student (And former @kaymtye lab member :D) @tbtuazon to the lab!!

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Welcome @ardiliberto to the Mills Lab!! 🎉 She’ll be joining us as our new technician, helping with mouse behavioral and imaging experiments. Excited to have her on the team!

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The Mills lab just bid a fond farewell to @NicholasPoll1!! Nic was a phenomenal member of our lab, and such an instrumental part of our calcium imaging efforts that we christened our electronics bench "Nic's Garage" (featuring the UCLA Miniscope @MiniscopeTeam)!

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Wonderful talks between departments at the Neuroscience & Computing Working Group organized by Rajeev Balasubramonian and @jamesgheys1!

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Everyone with Sprinkles!🧁❤️ - It’s always better with a little dessert around. Sorry we missed you both @LemmonDani & Merrin 😰🙏🏻😞

[Fergil Mills @fergilmills]

The Mills lab is hiring!! We are looking for a part-to-full time technician to assist with mouse behavioral and imaging experiments in our lab! https://t.co/5d7h1Ype6T

Check out https://t.co/8pW0pluZtA for more information about the posting and our research!

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Congrats & welcome to Merrin Maughan @myboredomrelief, who was awarded a UROP to join us in the lab for Summer 2025! Merrin is already making great contributions to the lab, today presenting a journal club on @kaymtye circuit motifs in valence processing!

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The Mills Lab is thrilled to welcome Chris Heyman, our first PhD student, to the team! Chris is a UCSD alum with an outstanding range of electrophysiology and behavior skills learned in the @laramrangel, @andrea_chiba, and Nitz labs. Excited to do great science!!

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Delighted to announce that the Mills lab has received a Whitehall Foundation Research Grant!! We are very grateful for the support, and excited to do some great science! 🔥🔥🔥

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Wonderful rotation presentation by Chris Heyman, who survived (and thrived!) through his first encounter with “the MedPC experience”.

If you know, you know.

[Ismail Ahmed @iaahmed123]

1/3 Exciting News! We're hiring at all levels immediately for our lab @UUNeurobiology Join us in cutting-edge research at the intersection of neuroscience and chemical biology! We aim to explore how neuropeptides modulate behavior and physiology.

Pls RT!

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A surprise appearance by Moo Deng in @NicholasPoll1’s lab meeting slides 😂

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Nic heroically attempting to cut baklava into shareable bites

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We are thrilled to welcome Fabiha Bushra to the team!! 🥳 Bushra is pursuing her https://t.co/TYcMKMQtNd in Computer Science, and will be using her background in deep learning to work on behavioral analysis in the lab!

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We are delighted to welcome recent @UUtah graduate Nic Poll @NicholasPoll1 to our team!!

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(Though the next day the switch flipped and it was winter in May 😅)

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Pics from a great hike in the hills with the Wachowiak lab!!