New study on axon initial segment plasticity by Chloé Benoit and Dan Ganea. Using a deep brain imaging approach, we find that AIS length changes dynamically during associative learning. Thank you to the wonderful team and collaborators who made this work possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just in time for Xmas! Check out some new work from my lab looking at noise-invariant representations in excitatory cell-types! Congrats to Tommy Suarez-Omedas! 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...

BonnBrain 2026 is officially sold out! Last admission decisions will be sent soon. Thank you for the overwhelming interest! We are looking forward to a fantastic meeting in Bonn next March.

My first paper just got published last week! *Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p* elifesciences.org/articles/107...

🎉 New Year New LOOPs webinar Join us for our January webinar with Shizuko Hiryu from @doshishauniversity.bsky.social and see how bats “see” with sound and how their biological sonar inspires both biology and engineering. 🦇🧠 🗓️ January 21st ⏰ 10:30 AM CET 📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

New preprint from the lab! A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.

A neuron type-specific microexon in Ank3/ankyrin-G modulates calcium activity and neuronal excitability www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

Today we honour the memory of Adam Kampff, whose passing leaves an immense void in our community. We are profoundly grateful to Adam. The best way to honour him is to continue innovating, collaborating, and sharing generously, as he taught us. Thank you, Adam Kampff.

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...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neurons that dampen electrical brain activity influence emotional memories more than expected. DZNE's @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social and colleagues report in @nature.com Communications that these cells are key for how memories form - offering new clues to anxiety and PTSD. 👉 www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

Detecting absence: A dedicated prediction-error signal emerging in the auditory thalamus arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21605

Join us for BonnBrain 2026! The official deadline for abstract submission is December 15th, but we only have a few slots left and might be sold out before the deadline. Apply quickly 👉 bonnbrain.de to be considered by our Scientific Committee!

Memory traces bias new learning for hippocampal generalization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690297v1

✨ New preprint ✨ What if we could watch AND control thousands of individual neurons in behaving mice—with stable access over months? 🧠⚡ Our work introduces transgenic all-optical tools that make this possible - and a resulting surprising discovery! 🔭💡 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/13 🧵

Out now: Favila, Capece Marsico et al. 2025, Nature Communications: Using longitudinal deep-brain imaging, we report that amygdala interneurons exhibit complex and heterogeneous plasticity during associative learning, at both the single-cell and population level. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come to #Bonn next March and join the #BonnBrain Conference 2026! There’s still time left to register and submit your abstract: 🌍 https://bonnbrain.de/ @bonnbrainconf.bsky.social ⏰ March 23–25, 2026 📍 @dzne.science#Bonn#BonnBrain#DZNE

Learning-dependent cholinergic plasticity reconfigures cortical circuit dynamics. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687664v1

Latest from the lab: Laura Haetzel finds that excitatory transmission from auditory thalamus to tail of striatum is accompanied by a sparse inhibitory projection. This allows for state-dependent control of striatal output. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Next-generation enhancer AAVs for selective interspecies targeting of midbrain dopaminergic neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.687071v1

Plateau potentials are instructive signals for behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the neocortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.07.687250v1

How do VTA DA neurons sculpt downstream representations to reinforce actions? VERY excited about our new preprint (by Alex Pan Vazquez & @czimmerman.bsky.social )

Sickness engrams modulate anticipatory immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686140v1

Ephaptic-Axonal Interactions Shape Radial Biases DuringNeural Self-Organization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686361v1

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are hiring 🎉 Brandeis Neuroscience is looking for an Assistant Professor. The search is in the broad area of cellular/circuit neuroscience. It’s a fantastic place to do research and train students.If you’re interested, apply and reach out with any questions! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

I am thrilled to share our latest work: we identified a population of central amygdala neurons that promote the earliest and perhaps most important social behavior: pup suckling!... We also developed new tools for pup neuroscience Work by @Jeff Moore now at USC, a collaboration with @Sam Pfaff lab

Selective coupling and decoupling coordinate distributed brain networks for precise action https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.19.683309v1

Registration open: eveeno.com/applicationb... Under the theme “From Genes to Circuits and Behavior”, top neuroscientists - incl. Cori Bargmann, @edvardmoser.bsky.social, Rosa Paolicelli, Maude Baldwin & Zachary Knight - will meet at to explore how neural circuits drive behavior.

Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island. doi.org/10.1126/sci... With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others

Impact of serotonin transporter deficiency on parvalbumin- and neuropeptide Y-producing interneurons of the basolateral amygdala https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680627v1

👀“experience of a punished outcome generates a BLA representation that is selectively replayed when animals subsequently abort choice of the large/risky reward option.” ⚡️“… risk leads to the incorporation of newly encoding BLA neurons into the pre-choice representation”

🔬 Join us for the next iBehave Seminar Series 2025 lecture with Prof. Dr. Mark Schnitzer @Stanford on Oct 9, 11:00 DZNE Bonn. Host: @jangrundemann.bsky.social Title: Cell-type specific voltage imaging of neural spiking, oscillations, waves, and memory dynamics 📧 Zoom info: [email protected]

Sensory origin of visually evoked activity in auditory cortex www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

A couple of new preprints out from Kash Lab!

Using a new genetically-encoded voltage indicator in an all-optical approach to measure synaptic plasticity in awake behaving mice. Great work by @jacquescarolan.bsky.social and colleagues. Check out www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679721v1

Exploring the correspondence between gene expressionand thalamic nuclei using the THALMANAC resource https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679413v1

Wow!

Why early birds sing early www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

Astrocytic Activation Completely Corrects Memory Performancein an Alzheimer's Disease Model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679133v1

The Reinstatement of a Forgotten Infantile Memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678956v1

We are hiring a postdoc to work @istaresearch.bsky.social on an @erc.europa.eu funded project, investigating the control of behavior and physiology by the hypothalamus. Please apply and share! ist.ac.at/en/job/postd...

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

CS - plasticity and behavioral-state integration in the posterior insula during auditory fear learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678609v1