Gift supports postdoctoral research in the physics of intelligence…
Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neurons
Amo R, Uchida N, Watabe-Uchida M. Neuron. 2024 Jan 22:S0896-6273(23)00979-0. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.019. PMID: 38278147…
GSAS highlights Buckner lab student
Wendy Sun, an MD/PhD student in BBS, is profiled for her work in the CBS Neuroimaging Core…
Swartz Postdoctoral Fellowship
We have one opening for a Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow, beginning in summer or fall of 2024….
Ölveczky lab paper makes the cover of October Nature Neuroscience
Describes circuit mechanisms of complex motor sequences…
Gazette highlights NIH grant to Lichtman
NIH BRAIN CONNECTS grant awarded for mouse brain connectome…
Transcriptomic analysis of the ocular posterior segment completes a cell atlas of the human eye
Monavarfeshani A, Yan W, Pappas C, Odenigbo KA, He Z, Segrè AV, van Zyl T, Hageman GS, Sanes JR. PNAS 2023 Vol. 120 No. 34 e2306153120. https://doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1073/pnas.2306153120…
Neural mechanisms of parasite-induced summiting behavior in ‘zombie’ Drosophila
Elya C, Lavrentovich D, Lee E, Pasadyn C, Duval J, Basak M, Saykina V, de Bivort BL. Elife. 2023 May 15;12:e85410. doi: 10.7554/eLife.85410. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37184212…
Carolyn Elya profile in Gazette
“Zombie” fruit fly work in Ben de Bivort’s lab is described….
Bellono lab back-to-back Nature articles covered in Gazette
The story includes striking photos and a video. Photo credit: Anik Grearson…
Structural basis of sensory receptor evolution in octopus
Allard CAH, Kang G, Kim JJ, Valencia-Montoya WA, Hibbs RE, Bellono NW
Nature. 2023. Apr;616(7956):373-377. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05822-1. Epub 2023 Apr 12. PMID: 37045920…
Sensory specializations drive octopus and squid behaviour
Kang G, Allard CAH, Valencia-Montoya WA, van Giesen L, Kim JJ, Kilian PB, Bai X, Bellono NW, Hibbs RE
Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7956):378-383. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05808-z. Epub 2023 Apr 12. PMID: 37045917…
Ba, Konkle, Pehlevan, and Sompolinsky named inaugural Kempner Institute Associate Faculty
Demba Ba, Talia Konkle, Cengiz Pehlevan, and Haim Sompolinsky were named the Institute’s inaugural cohort of “associate faculty.”…
Yun Zhang story in Harvard Gazette
You can read “Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating” by following the link to the paper…
Nick Bellono cover story in Harvard Magazine
Nick, his lab, and his research are profiled in the current issue….
Encoding of environmental illumination by primate melanopsin neurons
Liu A, Milner ES, Peng YR, Blume HA, Brown MC, Bryman GS, Emanuel AJ, Morquette P, Viet NM, Sanes JR, Gamlin PD, Do MTH
Science. 2023 Jan 27;379(6630):376-381. doi: 10.1126/science.ade2024….
Coordinated drift of receptive fields in Hebbian/anti-Hebbian network models during noisy representation learning
Qin S, Farashahi S, Lipshutz D, Sengupta AM, Chklovskii DB, Pehlevan C
Nat Neurosci. 2023 Jan 12. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01225-z. PMID: 36635497…
Rapid synaptic and gamma rhythm signature of mouse critical period plasticity
Quast KB, Reh RK, Caiati MD, Kopell N, McCarthy MM, Hensch TK
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan 10;120(2):e2123182120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2123182120…
Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating
Taihong Wu, Minghai Ge, Min Wu, Fengyun Duan, Jingting Liang, Maoting Chen, Xicotencatl Gracida, He Liu, Wenxing Yang, Abdul Rouf Dar, Chengyin Li, Rebecca A. Butcher, Arneet L. Saltzman & Yun Zhang
Nature (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05561-9
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Population codes enable learning from few examples by shaping inductive bias
Bordelon B, Pehlevan C
Elife. 2022 Dec 16;11:e78606. doi: 10.7554/eLife.78606….
Neural representational geometry underlies few-shot concept learning
Ben Sorscher, S. Ganguli, H. Sompolinsky
DOI:10.1073/pnas.220080…
Proper acquisition of cell class identity in organoids allows definition of fate specification programs of the human cerebral cortex
Uzquiano A, Kedaigle AJ, Pigoni M, Paulsen B, Adiconis X, Kim K, Faits T, Nagaraja S, Antón-Bolaños N, Gerhardinger C, Tucewicz A, Murray E, Jin X, Buenrostro J, Chen F, Velasco S, Regev A, Levin JZ, Arlotta P.
Cell. 2022 Sep 29;185(20):3770-3788.e27. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.010. PMID: 36179669
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Triggers for mother love
Margaret S. Livingstone
September 19, 2022
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Haim Sompolinsky deepens ties to Harvard
Haim Sompolinsky has joined Harvard full-time, as a Professor in Residence….
RL at Harvard workshop
Thank you to everyone, especially Paul Masset, for helping to make the CBS NeuroTheory workshop a success! Click on the link below to see some photos Souvik Mandal took at the event….
Learning-induced changes in the neural circuits underlying motor sequence execution
Kadmon Harpaz N, Hardcastle K, Ölveczky BP.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2022 Aug 25;76:102624….
A Double Dissociation between Savings and Long-Term Memory in Motor Learning
A. Hadjiosif, J. Morehead, Maurice A. Smith
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.18.504373
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Pyramidal neuron subtype diversity governs microglia states in the neocortex
Jeffrey A. Stogsdill, Kwanho Kim, Loïc Binan, Samouil L. Farhi, Joshua Z. Levin & Paola Arlotta
Nature volume 608, pages 750–756 (2022)
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Temporally divergent regulatory mechanisms govern neuronal diversification and maturation in the mouse and marmoset neocortex
Wen Yuan, Sai Ma, Juliana R. Brown, Kwanho Kim, Vanessa Murek, Lucia Trastulla, A. Meissner, S. Lodato, Ashwin S. Shetty, J. Levin, J. Buenrostro, M. Ziller, P. Arlotta
Nature Neuroscience volume 25, pages 1049–1058 (2022)
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Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice
Nicole L Bedford, Jesse N Weber, Wenfei Tong, Felix Baier, Ariana Kam, Rebecca A Greenberg, Hopi E Hoekstra
Evolution Letters 6, 330-340 (2022)….
A chromosomal inversion contributes to divergence in multiple traits between deer mouse ecotypes
Emily R Hager, Olivia S Harringmeyer, T Brock Wooldridge, Shunn Theingi, Jacob T Gable, Sade McFadden, Beverly Neugeboren, Kyle M Turner, Jeffrey D Jensen, Hopi E Hoekstra
Science 377, 399-405 (2022). DOI: 10.1126/science.abg071…
Cell atlas of the human ocular anterior segment: Tissue-specific and shared cell types
van Zyl T, Yan W, McAdams AM, Monavarfeshani A, Hageman GS, Sanes JR….
Conservation and divergence of cortical cell organization in human and mouse revealed by MERFISH
Fang R, Xia C, Close JL, Zhang M, He J, Huang Z, Halpern AR, Long B, Miller JA, Lein ES, Zhuang X.
Science. 2022 Jul;377(6601):56-62….
A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness
Osterhout JA, Kapoor V, Eichhorn SW, Vaughn E, Moore JD, Liu D, Lee D, DeNardo LA, Luo L, Zhuang X, Dulac C.
Nature. 2022 Jun;606(7916):937-944….
Joshua Sanes awarded honorary doctorate
Josh was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem….
Haim Sompolinsky wins Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize
Haim has been awarded the Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize, along with Larry Abbott, Emery Brown, and Terry Sejnowski “for pioneering contributions to computational and theoretical neuroscience.”…
Tle4 controls both developmental acquisition and postnatal maintenance of corticothalamic projection neuron identity
M. Galazo, D. Sweetser, J. D. Macklis
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On neural network kernels and the storage capacity problem
Jacob A Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
Neural Computation (2022) 34 (5): 1136–1142….
A Third Somatomotor Representation in the Human Cerebellum
Noam Saadon-Grosman, Peter A. Angeli, Lauren M. DiNicola, Randy L. Buckner
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.13.488247
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Multi-animal Pose Estimation, Identification And Tracking With Deeplabcut
Jessy Lauer, Mu Zhou, Shaokai Ye, William Menegas, Steffen Schneider, Tanmay Nath, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, Valentina Di Santo, Daniel Soberanes, Guoping Feng, Venkatesh N Murthy, George Lauder, Catherine Dulac, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, Alexander Mathis
Nat Methods 19, 496–504 (2022)….
Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
V. Trubetskoy, A. Pardiñas, …, Randy L. Buckner,…, M. O’Donovan
Nature volume 604, pages 502–508 (2022)
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Face neurons encode nonsemantic features
Alexandra Bardon, Will Xiao, C. Ponce, M. Livingstone, G. Kreiman
PNAS 2022 Vol. 119 No. 16 e2118705119
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The role of state uncertainty in the dynamics of dopamine
John G Mikhael, HyungGoo R Kim, Naoshige Uchida, Samuel J Gershman
Current Biology Volume 32, Issue 5, 14 March 2022, Pages 1077-1087.e9….
Autism genes converge on asynchronous development of shared neuron classes
B. Paulsen, Silvia Velasco, …, P. Arlotta
Nature volume 602, pages 268–273 (2022)
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Forgetting generates a novel state that is reactivatable
He Liu, Taihong Wu, Xicotencatl Gracida Canales, Min Wu, Myung-Kyu Choi, Fengyun Duan, J. Calarco, Yun Zhang
Science Advances 11 Feb 2022 Vol 8, Issue 6 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi9071
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A self-supervised domain-general learning framework for human ventral stream representation
Talia Konkle and G. Alvarez…
Retinal ganglion cells expressing CaM kinase II in human and nonhuman primates
Alyssa K. Baldicano, Subha Nasir-Ahmad, Mario Novelli, Sammy C S Lee, M. H. Do, P. Martin, U. Grünert
J. Comp. Neurol. 2022 Jun;530(9):1470-1493. doi: 10.1002/cne.25292. Epub 2022 Jan 14.
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Stretchable Mesh Nanoelectronics for 3D Single‐Cell Chronic Electrophysiology from Developing Brain Organoids
P Le Floch, Q Li, Z Lin, S Zhao, R Liu, K Tasnim, H Jiang, J Liu
Advanced Materials 34 (11), 2106829….
Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice
Siyuan Zhao, Xin Tang, Sebastian Partarrieu, Shiqi Guo, Ren Liu, Jaeyong Lee, Zuwan Lin, Jia Liu
bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.29.466524
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Motor planning under uncertainty
Alhussein L, Smith MA
Elife. 2021 Sep 6;10:e67019. doi: 10.7554/eLife.67019. PMID: 34486520
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