New preprint from the lab on synapse development in the nascent neocortical hierarchy!
Using mice that label MAGUK proteins developed by Seth Grant we find key differences in the laminar maturation of association and sensory motor cortices, including delayed, cortex-wide maturation of L1 synapses.
Region- and layer-specific glutamatergic synapse development in the nascent cortical hierarchy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706315v1
Will this be available in the UK or EU? :)
Photo of James McAllister from Ulster University giving a presentation on his work on brain-inspired reservoir computing
Lovely time today at the 2nd All-Ireland Computational Neuroscience Symposium at Queens U Belfast. It's a small but growing community on the island. imo the talks were all genuinely great and I'm really excited for the future
Round 3 back in Dublin next August apparently if anyone wants to join! ☘️🧠
This is so fab! What a brilliant resource, thanks John!
Very well done!
@camneuro.bsky.social our amazing PhD student James McAllister is giving a talk at 2pm in CBL on drosophila-larva connectome-based recurrent neural networks
talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
This makes me very happy!
Amazing, thank you so much! And thanks for such an awesome network tool.
Thank you!
I was using graph-tool (it's fabulous btw!) in Colab a month or so ago and it worked perfectly, but it now is complaining at the part "from graph_tool.all import *" saying "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'graph_tool'"...is there something that hasn't yet been updated in Colab? Thanks!
This is a great write-up of a brilliant paper! :)
Schematic diagram of reservoir computing neural network, with drosophila larva connectome overlaid as reservoir connectivity.
Delighted @jajmca.bsky.social's abstract was accepted for COSYNE 2025, for his work on linking neural circuit structure to function via drosophila-connectome-based reservoir computing. With @conjh.bsky.social, John Wade and myself.
I wouldn't have thought to work out the probability (either as a frequentist or Bayesian) of being Rick rolled by the first footnote!! 😂
