Learn about Elena Kozina, PhD, a 2024 Early Career Policy Ambassador and Parkinson’s researcher at Thomas Jefferson University, as she details how growing up and attending college in post-Soviet Russia has instilled in her a passion for science advocacy.

Elena Kozina, PhD, is a faculty research associate at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa., dedicated to the exploration of neuro-immune interactions and cell biology of Parkinson's disease.

Questions about submitting to The Journal of Neuroscience, getting more involved with peer review, or scientific publishing as a whole? This town hall is your opportunity to have them answered directly by Editor-in-Chief Sabine Kastner and other members of the JNeurosci Editorial Board.

Valéria Muoio, a neuroscientist and neurosurgeon at the University of São Paulo and Neuronline Community Leader, describes the important work being done in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest to implement initiatives to help care for and preserve the local inhabitants, as well as the rainforest itself.

Hugo Sánchez Castillo shares his journey of finding a postdoctoral position after completing his doctoral studies at the National University of Mexico. He discusses the challenges he faced, including societal pressures and the importance of aligning personal interests with the chosen institution. Ultimately, he emphasizes that a postdoc is not just an opportunity for scientific growth, but also for building networks, learning about culture, and personal development.

Read onto learn about Thomas Xin, fourth-year graduate student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at Yale University, interested in communicating science to the public and advocating for those affected by uncertain NIH funding.

Join this interactive session as Behzad Iravani and Josef Parvizi discuss their paper, “Intracranial Recordings of the Human Orbitofrontal Cortical Activity during Self-Referential Episodic and Valenced Self-Judgments”, with JNeurosci Reviewing Editor Erin Rich.

Cocaine produces widely recognized rewarding effects, but also produces aversive effects that occur several minutes after rewarding effects dissipate. Prior work shows these aversive effects are particularly strong in some animals, in whom they produce conditioned avoidance effects that reduce overall cocaine-seeking. The sources of these individual variations are largely unknown, but we found evidence for contributions from heritable influences. Using outbred male and female Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Heterogeneous Stock (HS) rats, we found that offspring of individuals expressing higher versus lower levels of conditioned avoidance to cocaine on a runway operant task are themselves higher or lower in this trait. These results did not differ between sexes, and are consistent with a heritable influence driving conditioned avoidance of cocaine, which could either be genetic or non-genetic. Runway latency to obtain cocaine also differed markedly between seven inbred rat strains (tested in males only), again cons...

Mary Kate Joyce discusses her paper, “Subgenual and Hippocampal Pathways in Amygdala Are Set to Balance Affect and Context Processing,” published in Vol. 43, Issue 17 of JNeurosci in 2023, with Megan Sansevere from SfN’s Journals’ staff.

Aaron Nichols discusses his paper, “Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors within Cells: Temporal Resolution in Cytoplasm, Endoplasmic Reticulum, and Membrane,” published in Vol. 43, Issue 13 of JNeurosci in 2023, with Megan Sansevere from SfN’s Journals’ staff.