Catherine Dulac

I am thrilled to share our latest work led by @zurisullivan.bsky.social in collaboration with @moffittlab.bsky.social ! We find that the brain encodes distinct, pathogen-specific sickness states across behavior, physiology, neural activity, and gene expression 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge J. Michael Luttig: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

Thank you MaryBeth: it was such a nice event and I was so happy to see my long time friend -- and she reminded me, former member of my PhD thesis committee @mbhatten.bsky.social!

👏👏👏 If you aren’t yet supporting this group, please consider it. They are not just a force for good in dire times but they’ve also proven that they are effective. Thank you, @cdelawalla.bsky.social and team.

I'm very honored that our research was covered by the New York Times! @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social wrote a beautiful piece that captures the science & mystery of cephalopod camouflage: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/s... I want to emphasize that this project is the result of an incredible team effort...

Profile of an outstanding scientist!

Best place to do neuroscience in the world.

Congratulations to @deisseroth.bsky.social ! Optogenetics has transformed neuroscience. I'm also grateful for the open-source spirit Karl and colleagues championed by sharing optogenetic tools freely from the start. It made a huge difference for the field.

Harvard Alumnus Karl Deisseroth ’92 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvard.edu @harvardmagazine.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Do you love learning about marmosets and tamarins in the Amazon rainforest, but not love Amazon dot com? Anti-Prime Day at @bookshop.org is a great day to buy my book! bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🧪

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

This was so long overdue!... optogenetics truly revolutionized neuroscience and more. Congrats @deisseroth.bsky.social

Finally!! So happy for my colleague and buddy @deisseroth.bsky.social!!

Congratulations @deisseroth.bsky.social 👏👏

FishExplorer Opens New Window on How Brains Evolve Across Species 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @engertlab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @embl.org @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @owenrandlett.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com

Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd #MLSky www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social@harvard.edu @mitpress.bsky.social @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

I am highly humbled to be this year recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize for outstanding women in biomedical research: its first awardee was my PhD advisor Nicole Le Douarin, an extraordinary scientist and mentor! Importantly, this award also recognizes the amazing scientists from my lab.

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

My postdoc work at @uclacollege.bsky.social in the #CorreaLab is now published at @pnas.org! 🙌 Our broad question was - do estrogens act on the brain to coordinate thermoregulatory adaptations during pregnancy? 1/8

From Breakthroughs to Better Health: Biochemical Sciences Tutorial Centennial Continues October 3 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvard.edu @harvardmagazine.bsky.social

New preprint! TLDR: We mapped the genetic architecture of neonatal vocalization in deer mice, and found candidate genes expressed in the cerebellum that could be contributing to the evolution of temporal structure in infant cries #Bioacoustics #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wow!... is this real?!.... 😲

Today in Nature @nature.com, we report a new approach to studying human brain development and modeling disease in vivo. Open article link below 👇

Happy to share the version of record of our locus coeruleus paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Prior thread on some of our discoveries in this study: bsky.app/profile/jere...

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

"The world can feel like a cruel jungle, but human care persists." I love the excerpt from my book that Lisa Sibbetts published at The Auntie Bulletin today: theauntie.substack.com/p/what-predi... 🧪

Well done @jieyusz.bsky.social and @mameister4.bsky.social!... 👏 I always joke that a key role for the cortex is to protect the most essential and way less studied brain areas below it 🤣😜

Tien Nguyen Awarded NIH Fellowship to Study Bacterial Cell Division 🔬 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @harvardmed.bsky.social @harvard.edu @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

Well deserved! When I was searching for an example of how a discovery about the brain unlocked an entirely new class of therapies (while writing Elusive Cures), orexin is what I pointed to. It doesn't always happen this way. When it does **it's epic** and we should celebrate.

Colin Kim Recognized with Three Early-Career Research Awards 🔬 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @cyhkim.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social @harvard.edu

1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

Harvard MCB BioCamp Brings Science to Life in Inaugural Summer 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @boschildmuseum.bsky.social @museumofscience.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

NIH's Aug 2026 proposal would scrap exact scores and percentiles for three broad bins (top = top 25%). With funding rates at 5% or lower, too much then rides on administrative discretion. It devalues peer review and is a deterrent to engage. Tell NIH before Oct 13. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.

FUEL Program Gives First-Year Students a Foundation for Undergraduate Research #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @harvard.edu @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

Finally out: a very cool study by @jenbussell.bsky.social from the Axel lab--summarized here by @thetransmitter.bsky.social-- on the urge to know in mice, even without any immediate benefit for the animal

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

Amazing first publication: cortical representation of social cooperation, congrats @herbertwu.bsky.social!

This work is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! Thanks to co-authors H McCalmon, G Cai, C Tsibouris, @noehamou.bsky.social, J Hoskins, F Pashakhanloo, @sueyeonchung.bsky.social and V Kapoor.

Dudes love a podcast that claims it's telling you about how to attract women based on like, EVOLUTION. But not a single one of them are giving the real mating advice that I have seen in the scientific literature! Not a single dude has ever rolled me up a ball of dung at a bar and it shows.

Extraordinary....

Haim Sompolinsky Awarded 2026 Dirac Medal 🧠 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @harvard.edu @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

A brand new lab with an amazing PI and terrific new ideas and projects: I highly recommend @harriskaplan.bsky.social!...

Ryan Nett Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Ancient Plants with Modern Medical Promise 🔬 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvard.edu @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social

Read about our latest work here www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... or let Alessandro tell you all about it (link below)!

Two MCB and Neuroscience Concentrators Receive 2026 Gen Ed Prize 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @harvard.edu @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardmagazine.bsky.social

Great piece on octopus ribosomes — and on the importance of following unexpected observations and looking in new places to find new things :) current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/octo...

Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...