ZVR Lab
@urneuroscience.bsky.social research lab of @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social, dedicated to understanding #discriminationlearning and #psychopathology using #VR, #MRI, and #ML. Happy to connect with the research community on Bluesky!
- Ever notice how a power nap can improve your memory? During deep sleep, your brain replays neural activity patterns from your day, strengthening important connections and weakening less useful ones. It's like your brain's natural memory optimization! #BrainFacts #EEG
- "Oh, the places you'll go!" ~Dr. Seuss We are bursting with pride celebrating our amazing undergrads, Kendal Jordan and Mary Halvorsen! #Congratulations on your graduation! 🎓🌟 #URochesterResearch #academicweapons #graduates @kendaljordan.bsky.social @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
- Thank you, @urneuroscience.bsky.social for another inspiring #Neuroscience Graduate Program Retreat! @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social #URochesterResearch 📸🧵 1/8
- We’re spending the day at the Neuroscience Retreat at the Memorial Art Gallery! A day of speakers, posters, and collaboration. @urneuroscience.sky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social #URochesterResearch
- We were happy to attend Abby's dissertation update today! @abigailbossa.bsky.social is a PhD student in Translational Biomedical Science in the Clinical Translational Science Institute (@ur-ctsi.bsky.social) @urochestersmd.bsky.social, and a researcher in our #neuroscience lab. 🧠👏#URochesterResearch
- 🎉PhD student Abigail Bossa earned a Top 25 Trainee Poster Award from the CTSA at the 2025 ACTS Conference for her poster, "Investigating sociodemographic influences on trauma exposure and neural alterations in young adults”! Congratulations, @abigailbossa.bsky.social! #URochesterResearch
- Thank you, Kelsie Smith Hayduk and @urneuroscience.bsky.social for this excellent write-up about our recent publication, "Using Virtual Reality to Study Spatial Mapping and Threat Learning." #URochesterResearch #neuroskyence @zvr-bsj.bsky.social 🧵1/2 www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publica...
- A rare group #selfie in the lab with our favorite, PI, Ben Suarez-Jimenez! We're ready for another week of #neuroscience #research @urneuroscience.bsky.social. #PTSD #discriminationlearning #URochesterResearch #academicweapons #neuroskyence @urochester.bsky.social 📸: @zvr-bsj.bsky.social
- Tomorrow, April 16, at 4pm, we welcome Elisabeth A. Murray, PhD and NIMH Section Chief on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, to the Doty Lecture @urochestersmd.bsky.social, via Zoom! Dr. Murray will be presenting "Prefrontal-amygdala interactions in social cognition and decision making."
- 🚨NEW PAPER! In "Using virtual reality to study spatial mapping and threat learning," ZVR Lab and co-first authors @pavelrjabtsenkov.bsky.social and @clairemarino.bsky.social used #VR to examine the effects of #anxiety in contextual threat learning. #URochesterResearch #neuroskyence rdcu.be/edD0m
- Don't forget to join us today, April 10, in SMD 1-7619 at @urochestersmd.bsky.social for another inspiring NEUROYES speaker, Cellas A. Hayes, PhD! #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social ⤵️ 🧵1/2
- Congratulations Tanya Garg and all of the presenters at yesterday's first-ever International Graduate Research Showcase @urochester.bsky.social! The showcase was put on by the International Services Office as part of Global Week & Graduate Student Appreciation Week. #URochesterResearch #globalweek
- Thank you, @coryjwhite.bsky.social for an engaging #research talk! We are delighted to welcome another NEUROYES speaker, Dr. Cellas Ari’ka Hayes, on 4/10/25! @c3llas.bsky.social @drnathanasmith.bsky.social #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social #neuroskyence
- Tomorrow at 4pm in SMD 1-7619, NEURO-YES welcomes Dr. Cory J. White to @urochestersmd.bsky.social. See you there! ⤵️
- Join us on Thursday, April 3rd from 4-5pm for @coryjwhite.bsky.social, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and NIH Blueprint D-SPAN K00 Fellow from Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. White will present "Evaluating how HIV infection and antiretroviral therapies impact brain lipid metabolism". 🧵 2/3
- Tanya Garg presented, “When Expectation Meets Experience: A Virtual Reality Study on Threat Expectancy & Physiological Arousal in Trauma Exposure” at the @urochester.bsky.social Graduate Research Day! Congrats Tanya! #URochesterResearch #neuroskyence #vrcademicsky #research #science #academicweapon🧠
- @marissasobolewski.bsky.social on the importance of studying iron overload, its influence on neuronal damage, and its association with neurodegenerative disease. #ADHD #dementia #neuroskyence #neuroscience #research #healthcare #brainhealth #URochesterResearch
- "Iron overload is a common phenotype associated with neurodegenerative disease and an important area for future research focused on neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD," - Marissa Sobowleski, PhD of @ur-ihhe.bsky.social #URochesterResearch via @medicalnewstoday.bsky.social 👇
- Follow @urneuroscience.bsky.social and Neuroscience Perspectives for updates on #URochesterResearch in #neurocience #neuroskyence
- Are you a fan of Neuroscience Perspectives? Thanks for being a part of our global audience!🌎 Is the map below giving you FOMO⤵️ Subscribe & listen today👉 urmc.info/1YC
- The NEUROYES speaker series, hosted by @urneuroscience.bsky.social and @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social, welcomes two exciting NEUROYES speakers to @urochestersmd.bsky.social this April! 📅 🧵 1/3 #diversity #equity #inclusion #neuroscience #science #URochesterResearch
- The February edition of NEUROYES featured Eric Garr, who presented "Learning cause and effect with the help of mesostriatal dopamine". Thank you to @garrface.bsky.social, and to @urneuroscience.bsky.social & @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social for hosting! 📸: @kendaljordan.bsky.social #URochesterResearch
- By freezing foreign aid, "Trump has placed many thousands of people across the world at risk of some of the most profound violations of their fundamental rights as research participants." #research #ethics www.bmj.com/content/388/...
- 🧵 This #ValentinesDay, we love seeing our PI share about how collaborations like this bring together technology, art, humor, and #science to advance #healthcare and #research! ❤️ 🧠 1/2
- At #AppliedMachineLearningDay, an AI artist captured the essence of talks by generating real-time drawings based on conversations. 🎨🤖 Some speakers had fun sneaking in words like giraffe just to see how the AI would interpret them! A creative blend of tech, art, and humor! #AIArt #Science
- Thanks for the great news, @altcdc.bsky.social ! 🎉🎉
- Today and every day we celebrate the contributions of women in science 🔬 #WomenInScienceDay #WomenInScience #URochesterResearch
- Please share widely! #URochesterResearch
- Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk "Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
- "You can be the light that shines in the darkness - for each other." -Giancarlo Esposito Many thanks to @urochester.bsky.social and Giancarlo Esposito for an engaging and inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Address last Friday. #bethelight #URochesterResearch
- NOT-OD-20-031, Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity, is no longer available on their website (404 error: Page Not Found). It can still be found online in PDF form, if you wish to save it for future reference: bit.ly/4hrORDI #diversity #science #biomedicalresearch
- This is something I encourage everyone to do; your voice does matter, and this only takes a minute of your time. Speak up and join the fight #forscience and #biomedicalresearch. @neurosky.bsky.social #neuroscience
- I recently received an email from @sfnjournals.bsky.social highlighting the importance of advocating for sustained biomedical research funding. They've made it incredibly easy to reach out to our representatives tinyurl.com/sfnadv. Your voice matters! #NeuroAdvocate #ScienceFunding #science
- This is an excellent thread that provides much-needed clarity on current events. Thank you, @altnih4science.bsky.social 💡
- Thanks for the link, @wvschaik.bsky.social! #bookmark added for future reference. #forscience #research #europepmc #URochesterResearch
- europepmc.org is the European (and better) version of Pubmed if the latter goes down due to fragile state reasons.
- Meet the @zvrlab.bsky.social team: Skylar DeWitt, Grad Student, NGP. “I’m interested in the intersection of #neuroscience & #psychology, particularly the neurobiological underpinnings of mental illness. Fun fact: I love dancing, and I was on a competitive team for 15 years!” Welcome, Skylar!
- We kicked off the 2025 @urneuroscience.bsky.social and @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social NEUROYES speaker series with "Divergent reward cue representations in prefrontal cortex underlie developmental differences in reward-seeking." Thank you, Dr. Gabriela Manzano Nieves! #neuroscience #URochesterResearch
- Happy #newyear @bsky.app! Happening today, January 9th at 4pm: Gabriela Manzano Nieves, PhD MPA, shares her research as the first NEURO-YES speaker of 2025 @urochestersmd.bsky.social #neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social #URochesterResearch
- 📢 📅 Our first NEURO-YES speaker of 2025 @urneuroscience.bsky.social is Gabriela Manzano Nieves, MPA PhD, presenting “Divergent reward cue representations in prefrontal cortex underlie developmental differences in reward-seeking.” on January 9th. See you there! #URochesterResearch
- This social media manager couldn't let 2024 pass by without thanking everyone in #thebestlabever for their kindness, dedication, tireless support, and work in advancing #neuroscienceresearch and #urochesterresearch Thank you! (❤️~julie) @zvrlab.bsky.social Image made with @biorender.bsky.social
- #WomenInSTEM trading cards by @1000womeninstem.bsky.social ...in case you still need stocking stuffer ideas! #collectthemall 🎄🎁
- The #WIP 1000 portraits of #womeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social trading cards are directly inspired by the fantastic work of @zombiegammarid.bsky.social If you want to find out more about his work on women mathematicians (in French), have a look here ➡️ docs.google.com/presentation...
- New #VRresearch tech under construction @unibonn.bsky.social, a Visual Computing Incubator! #volumetricscanner #visualcomputingincubator #vci
- Update: We started construction on the new volumetric scanner at @unibonn.bsky.social yesterday. Find more information on the visual computing incubator on our sister project's website: cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/project/visu... #3dscan #4dscan #volumetricscan #visualcomputing #vci #invirtuo #vrresearch
- Congrats on your first year @urochester.bsky.social, Floria @avispatica.bsky.social! 👏 #URochesterResearch
- #teamwasp 2024, including our mascot Rocky the yellowjacket @urochester.bsky.social! #ProudPI Wrapping up my first year as a TT professor! Mil gracias (a thousand thanks) to everyone who has supported me. Those of us from non-traditional trajectories and minoritized backgrounds belong in academia!
