Congratulations Dr Anggi Hapsari and Dr Oliver Barnstedt at our Campus on their new ERC Starting Grants! Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu

We are super excited that our project ***LearnMamBo*** Neuronal Dynamics of Learning and Memory in the Mammillary Body gets an #ercstartinggrant @erc.europa.eu – we will dissect the associated circuits supporting episodic memory – REACH OUT if interested in joining this project!

There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article. www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...

🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨 Check it out 👇👇 'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila' It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞

@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!

It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

Impressive study from Richard Morris's group: Hippocampal reactivation of planned trajectories is required for effective goal choice in an allocentric memory task #hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:

Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans.  doi.org/10.1038/s414... With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik

Our paper is out in Nature. By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned. Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to share part of my postdoctoral work from the @tjryan.bsky.social lab, out now in @nature.com. Here, my brilliant co-author @andreamunozz.bsky.social and I explored the link between memory engrams and whole-body metabolism. A thread: 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis! Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠 🧵(1/8)

Neurons involved in forming memories of a cold environment communicate with the part of the brain that regulates metabolic responses to cold stress https://go.nature.com/4lP2EHa

Pleased to share the final published version of @glopez.bsky.social's work in @currentbiology.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Region-specific nucleus accumbens dopamine signals encode distinct aspects of avoidance learning" Congrats, Gaby!!!

Does your research involve comparing experimental conditions? Then our latest publication is for you: We developed generalized contrastive PCA (gcPCA), a tool for comparing high-dimensional datasets. 🧠📊 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012747 This tool was born out of necessity, here is the story. 🧵 1/

Thrilled to see this part of my PhD work with @rcbagot.bsky.social now out in @natcomms.nature.com! (1/14) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nachum Ulanovsky's book "“Natural Neuroscience” on taking a more ecological approach to neuroscience came out! Nachum is one of the world leaders in studying the brain using bats, and his studies are always incredibly interesting and original. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...

1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🌈Today was a good day for the lab! 🌈 We celebrated our first lab member's birthday at ENI – Happy Birthday, Xiaoyu! 🎂 We got a grant accepted from @dfg.de 🙏 for a super cool project with @tobiasackels.bsky.social (stay tuned!) and the table for our new 2P has arrived 😀 #neuroskyence

How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later? Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala. 📄: nature.com/articles/s41...

The latest work from the Lammel lab is out today! Discover how changes in neurotensin signaling from the NAc Lat to the VTA lead to food devaluation in a mouse model of obesity 🧀🐭 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you coming to #NWG25 @neurowissg.bsky.social in Göttingen? Barnstedt Lab is having their first set of conference posters, all this WEDNESDAY! T27-1A (@lamqb.bsky.social: behaviour), T11-8A (Melika: mammillary), T25-8A (Oliver: subiculum). Do drop by and say Hi! 👋 if you're around! #neuroskyence

"How are memories formed and stored in the brain?...Long-term memory acquisition was found to be associated with a selective increase in multisynaptic boutons..". Groundbreaking new study from my friend and colleague Anton Maximov's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Bonus: My son Luca's first pub

Ji et al, Burgess lab: phase precession, theta skipping & theta modulation of head direction cells in the anteroventral thalamic nucleus (AVN). Explained using a ring attractor model with theta input and firing rate adaptation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Neuroscience #Neurons

Exciting new paper from David Dupret's lab, showing that hippocampal CA1 ripples can be categorized in 2 types, either driven by CA3 or entorhinal inputs, & are associated with different replay content. The categorization only requires pyramidal layer recording. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

Check out the new preprint by Manfredi @vitorlds.bsky.social et al., who find that hippocampal replays can be classified by their sinks in Radiatum or LM! Radsink -> recent waking motifs LMsink -> prior coactivity motifs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8

⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!) Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench 🧠🧪

New from the lab!! 👉🏼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgT43BtfH... 📝 @cellpress.bsky.social We discovered that genetically-defined neuron types in the hippocampus form unique manifolds! Dual color imaging, chemogenetics and topological analysis all at once! With Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social

Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)! Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:

Multiple maps in the hippocampus: www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

‼️🔬 I am looking for a PhD student to investigate the molecular signatures of memory engrams in Drosophila. 🎓 Fully funded 4-year PhD position (BBSRC NEEDL) 📍 Durham University, UK More details and instructions to apply: tinyurl.com/durhamPhD #Drosophila #Neuroskyence #Neuroscience #Memory

Applications are open for the @lakeconferences.bsky.social on Neural Coding & Dynamics in Seattle – co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel! 📆 9/28 to 10/2 📍 Seattle, USA 🧠📈 All career stages welcomed. Apply to attend by May 23: alleninstitute.org/events/lake-... #LakeConference

The first PinkyCaMP plasmids are now available on Addgene🧬… more coming soon 🚀! Stay tuned! www.addgene.org/Olivia_Masse...

Nature An opponent striatal circuit for distributional reinforcement learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👉 Only two days left to use your chance and submit a Late Poster for the Göttingen Meeting 2025 👈 #NWG2025

Great opportunity to work with a brilliant mind on exciting projects in a great research environment! 👇

Open positions in our lab. Just sayin…

Want to hear more about hippocampus-to-cortex feedback circuit? Our paper with the Basu lab is out in Nat Neuro! rdcu.be/eak1k . Well done Tanvi Butola!

🕷️ Spiders have a modular visual system with 8 eyes 👀 that are able to specialize for varying tasks Turns out, a pair of secondary eyes 👀 (the two smaller ones flanking their large ones) are specially tuned for perceiving biological motion! 🦟🪰 Check it out!: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)

Great to see the Multiscale Bioimaging Excellence Cluster (MBExC) 🔬♥️🧠 at Bluesky now! Welcome, @mbexc.bsky.social ! 🎉

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social #KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com @kavlifoundation.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Paper is accepted 🚨 I continued it besides my main PhD project. Thanks to everyone involved. It's about 👇 👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...