With a new lab fridge, fabulous reusable straws, and Costco palettes of sparkling water, life in lab is more civilized than ever 😌 #blessed
Wonderful lab outing climbing at the Front!! Lots of firsts for new climbers, and tons of fun! 😁😁😁
Come by LBP088 to see the first @themillslab data poster “Valence and Behavior Encoding in the Dorsal Striatum During Fear Learning”!!
The Mills lab is delighted to welcome NGP rotation student (And former @kaymtye lab member :D) @tbtuazon to the lab!!
L.A. officially connected to the lab 😎🌴
(Los Angeles not the lateral amygdala)
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!
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)!
Wonderful talks between departments at the Neuroscience & Computing Working Group organized by Rajeev Balasubramonian and @jamesgheys1!
Everyone with Sprinkles!🧁❤️ - It’s always better with a little dessert around. Sorry we missed you both @LemmonDani & Merrin 😰🙏🏻😞
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://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/183950
Check out http://www.themillslab.com for more information about the posting and our research!
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!
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!!
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! 🔥🔥🔥
Wonderful rotation presentation by Chris Heyman, who survived (and thrived!) through his first encounter with “the MedPC experience”.
If you know, you know.
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!
A surprise appearance by Moo Deng in @NicholasPoll1’s lab meeting slides 😂
We are thrilled to welcome Fabiha Bushra to the team!! 🥳 Bushra is pursuing her http://M.Sc in Computer Science, and will be using her background in deep learning to work on behavioral analysis in the lab!
Nic heroically attempting to cut baklava into shareable bites
We are delighted to welcome recent @UUtah graduate Nic Poll @NicholasPoll1 to our team!!
Pics from a great hike in the hills with the Wachowiak lab!!
(Though the next day the switch flipped and it was winter in May 😅)
Stereotaxes arrived!! 🤩🤩🤩
Our lab stickers arrived from the printers today!!! 🤩 A small but joyous milestone in setting up the lab!
Afternoon meetings were immediately put on hold so we could run around putting them on everything 😁
The first week of the Mills Lab at @UUtah is in the books (including a joint lab retreat + snowshoe trip w @jamesgheys1 amazing team)!! Might have been the best week of my life, truly grateful to be here and can’t wait to keep building the lab!🙏
We are thrilled to announce that @fergilmills will be joining @UUNeurobiology as an Assistant Professor next year! His lab will be focused on uncovering fundamental circuits underlying learned and innate motivated behaviors. Welcome Fergil!
