Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes in a lab notices a phenomenon that has been under the noses of researchers for a long time but ignored as a distraction. After more careful observations, replications, and basic experimental characterization, a study of prior literature, and discussion with experts in the field, it can be worth sharing with the world. In this case the fresh pair of eyes were those of new lab member May Li . As May was getting her experimental sea legs in the lab

Current Biology published a perspective article, " Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history" which covers our recent paper about short-term memory in the worm. It's a nice piece by Tomke Stürner which contextualizes our work in the larger body of neuroscience research on how nervous systems implement short term memories, using oscillatory network dynamics, in the service of decision making. This could be an ancient, deeply conserved architecture s

More commentary to come, but for now, enjoy the paper! Congrats to Ray and the team.

Kevin Zhou , former postdoc in the collaborating lab of Laura Waller at Berkeley, and who recently started his own lab at University of...

We developed an "interpretable machine learning" system to find and characterize blobs in volumetric images, such as microscopy images of...

This is a nice news article by Benjamin Plackett in Nature covering our science and community building work to establish tardigrades as a...

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...

"Working Memory by Distributed Neural Oscillations in a Simple Nervous System" Congratulations to Ray on completing an impressive body of...

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-ancient-mammals-show-their-true-colors Nice mention, with a quote from Ana ....

Dori Grijseels wrote a great article about our work and preprint on tardigrades for neuroscience. https://www.thetransmitter.org/animal-m...

In partnership with the Kirst Lab , we received a collaborative grant from the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, for the...

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...

We have been making the case for some time that tardigrades, aka water bears, would be an amazing new model organism for certain big...

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...

Should be a barn burner!

Another Nobel Prize was awarded for research in our favorite nematode C. elegans . Here's a NYT article covering.

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...

Congratulations Ray and team! Seven years in the making. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.11.607402v1

Congratulations Daniel and team! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.28.591397v2

This is a new introductory mini-course Saul designed this year. Co-directed with Reza Abbasi Asl and Karunesh Ganguly. Course...