New work from the lab is up on bioRxiv, where we introduce “SpikeLab: Agentic tools for spike data analysis” was led by postdoc Tjitse van der Molen and supported the crew at @ucscgenomics.bsky.social and @baskinengineering.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sequences are everywhere! In every brain region. And are written in stone. Invariant Activity Sequences Across the Mouse Brain. Out today, by Célian Bimbard, with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social. Based on data by Célian and by @intlbrainlab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New research led by #BaskinEngineering Prof @talsharf.bsky.social suggests the brain might be preloaded with a kind of internal template for reading the world, even before the world reaches us - via @discovermag.bsky.social bit.ly/4rFJMx8

Slate status: not blank

I was told it would take about three years to get a new lab up and running. Nearly three years later, our work on preconfigured neuronal firing sequences in human brain organoids is finally out in Nature Neuroscience: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We can, should, and will use cerebral organoids to discover new medical treatments, study brain development, reduce the demand for animal testing, and even power computers and more energy-efficient AI." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

In an NSF-supported study, @talsharf.bsky.social and collaborators will investigate the capacity of human brain organoids to learn and adapt, with implications for #organoid research, #bioethics, and science education. news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/lear...

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Awesome work by @mrbadash.bsky.social and the crew at @ucscgenomics.bsky.social Goal-directed learning in cortical #organoids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our manuscript preprint is out!

I’m thrilled to share our revised work on neuronal sequences in brain #organoids. It has been an absolute joy to collaborate with an incredible team of talented experimental and computational neuroscientists brought together by this project. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...