Returning as #OptoGRC2026 co-chair, meet @bjmarlin.bsky.social!
She's an assistant professor at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & is most looking forward to seeing old friends & new data.
Bianca is also a proud bug mom, welcoming her first walking stick bug babies to her collection in September 🐛
There’s still time to apply for #OptoGRC2026! 🙌
All applications are considered for support, including the opportunity for full registration coverage. Poster submissions & statements of interest encouraged!
Apply by 2/20 to maximize your chances👇
www.grc.org/optogenetic-...
It's time to meet your #OptoGRC2026 chairs!
Co-vice chair @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social is an assistant professor at @princeton.edu who spent the summer building a van for weekend adventures 🚐✨
She's most looking forward to meeting new people & exploring areas outside of her usual wheelhouse!
🚨 Reminder: Applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now OPEN!
Don’t miss your chance to join an incredible week of science, discovery, and connection with the brightest minds in optogenetics 💡🧠
Apply now for the best chance of acceptance: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...
Introducing co-vice chair @gisellavetere.bsky.social!
Gisella is a team leader at @espciparispsl.bsky.social and is most excited about the immersive exchange and new ideas #OptoGRC2026 will inspire.
Fun fact: when she’s not studying neurons, you can find her spinning on a pole 💃💪
Meditations on memory | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It was an honour to review @okaysteve.bsky.social ’s How to Change a Memory for Science. The book speaks for itself, bold, inspiring, and full of soul. I’m just proud to highlight the incredible work behind it. So proud of you, Steve
In 2016, the first Opto GRC was created to bring together scientists pushing the boundaries of optogenetics research 🧠🌟
Join us to celebrate 10 incredible years of collaboration and discovery—applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now open!
Apply now: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...
📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026!
We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues.
More details coming soon👇🏽
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I'm delighted to be in Verona for this year's Spring Hippocampal Research Conference. So many inspiring talks and exciting #Neuroscience research being done! I have some pretty cool colleagues 🧠 #Neuroskyence
@tjryan.bsky.social, @okaysteve.bsky.social, @gisellavetere.bsky.social
Fun times at #SOBP2025 with @gisellavetere.bsky.social @franklandlab.bsky.social Sheena Josselyn, Satoshi Kida, and Jessie Muir
Then @gisellavetere.bsky.social gave us a nice summary of the current state-of-the-art on how memory engrams control behavior
Our new preprint on experience dependent adaptation of the visual looming response instinct.
Representing the PhD work of Paul Conway at @tcddublin.bsky.social, and combined efforts of Ryan Lab investigators - in collaboration with @gisellavetere.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/3 How does visual input affect the heading direction (HD) network?
In our latest lab preprint, Ryosuke presents "visual landmarks" to larval zebrafish and shows that the HD network tethers to the visual environment. The experiments are again inspired by the beautiful recent work in Drosophila.
An amazing collaboration to be a part of: We helped @gisellavetere.bsky.social & @clementpouget.bsky.social simultaneously deliver 3 AAV constructs to Ca1 neurons.
What they then acheived blew me away - the tagging of cells recruited in memory encoding with a temporal resolution of mere seconds!
We also uncovered fascinating findings on neuronal drift, acquisition vs recall engrams differences, pre-allocation, optogenetic manipulation vs natural recall and many more.
Exciting discussions await!
Do you think you’ve conquered the enigma of the memory engram? News flash: You’re only scratching the surface. :)
In our latest work (led by @Clement), we dissected the engram to uncover what information is processed during encoding and becomes the essence of the recalled memory.
New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9)
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This is figure 1, which shows the identification of a cortical-to-brainstem slow breathing circuit.
A study in Nature Neuroscience identifies a prefrontal–pontomedullary pathway that slows breathing and reduces anxiety in mice. The findings explain a circuit basis for top-down control of breathing, which can influence emotional states. 🔒 https://go.nature.com/3CUtPy3
Join us!
Postdoc position for a Data Scientist in Neuroscience
Dive into multidimensional datasets from cutting-edge research on human behavior, stress & motivation
@EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
🔗 Check it out at @FENSorg website: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#Postdoc #DataScience #Neuroscience
Our resident octopus envelops all eight of its legs around a finger coral and turns itself white as a ghost while seeking a crabby treat 🐙👻🪸🦀 #octopus #colorchange #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #octopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
How the brain coordinates the activity of its many muscles to achieve successful control remains an enigma. www.cell.com/issue/S0896-...
