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Our paper on short-term memory in worms is out
More commentary to come, but for now, enjoy the paper! Congrats to Ray and the team.
Oct 151 min read
"Large-scale compressive microscopy via diffractive multiplexing across a sensor array" preprint released
Kevin Zhou , former postdoc in the collaborating lab of Laura Waller at Berkeley, and who recently started his own lab at University of...
Jul 251 min read
"SurfDist" pre-print posted
We developed an "interpretable machine learning" system to find and characterize blobs in volumetric images, such as microscopy images of...
Jul 131 min read
Nature does a news piece on our tardigrade work
This is a nice news article by Benjamin Plackett in Nature covering our science and community building work to establish tardigrades as a...
Jul 101 min read
"Recombinant dynamical systems" pre-print posted
This is an idea and a small but curious result that I've been sitting on for a very long time. Finally got around to sharing it. It the...
May 201 min read
Ray defends his PhD thesis
"Working Memory by Distributed Neural Oscillations in a Simple Nervous System" Congratulations to Ray on completing an impressive body of...
Apr 281 min read
Our tardi-preprint picked up in Science
https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-ancient-mammals-show-their-true-colors Nice mention, with a quote from Ana ....
Mar 141 min read
Article in the Transmitter on our tardigrade work
Dori Grijseels wrote a great article about our work and preprint on tardigrades for neuroscience. https://www.thetransmitter.org/animal-m...
Mar 131 min read
FoCoLab wins a Kavli Foundation Collaborative Grant
In partnership with the Kirst Lab , we received a collaborative grant from the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, for the...
Jan 311 min read
Our paper "Unifying community whole-brain imaging datasets enables robust neuron identification and reveals determinants of neuron position in C. elegans" is out.
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/fulltext/S2667-2375(24)00354-0 Congrats Yutaka and the rest of the team! It has been a...
Jan 211 min read
Our preprint "The tardigrade as an emerging model organism for systems neuroscience" is up.
We have been making the case for some time that tardigrades, aka water bears, would be an amazing new model organism for certain big...
Jan 141 min read
Video: "Community infrastructure and data diversity boosts AI performance" Talk
Saul gave this talk at UMass on Dec 19 Here is the video of the whole conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srB5fhZjw-I Saul's talk...
Dec 19, 20241 min read
Saul gives Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience Seminar at UCSF, "A primordial working memory and origin story of cognition"
Should be a barn burner!
Oct 19, 20241 min read
Another Nobel for the worm
Another Nobel Prize was awarded for research in our favorite nematode C. elegans . Here's a NYT article covering.
Oct 16, 20241 min read
Grants awarded from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to work on Autism and Schizophrenia
We are part of two amazing UC teams led by colleagues Alex Pollen and Tom Nowakowski that were awarded large grants as part of the new...
Sep 10, 20241 min read
"Relative phase of distributed oscillatory dynamics implements a working memory in a simple brain" is posted to bioRxiv.
Congratulations Ray and team! Seven years in the making. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.11.607402v1
Aug 23, 20241 min read
"Unifying community-wide whole-brain imaging datasets enables robust automated neuron identification and reveals determinants of neuron positioning in C. elegans" is posted to bioRxiv.
Congratulations Daniel and team! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.28.591397v2
Apr 29, 20241 min read
Saul's new mini-course, The Encoder Decoder Framework for Neuroscience (NS219), starts.
This is a new introductory mini-course Saul designed this year. Co-directed with Reza Abbasi Asl and Karunesh Ganguly. Course...
Apr 21, 20241 min read
Daniel receives a National Science Foundation GRFP fellowship
For his proposal entitled "Investigating Information Processing, Cognitive Architecture, and Control in Compact Neural Systems". Congrats...
Apr 2, 20241 min read
The fourth annual FocoSkiTrip goes off, flawlessly.
Fun times in North Tahoe.
Mar 20, 20241 min read
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