Congratulations to Marge on this award, which she shares with Winrich Freiwald, Nancy Kanwisher, and Doris Tsao! Follow the link to read more….
Takao Hensh awarded Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
Congratulations to Takao, whose decoration notes that he “contributed to the promotion of scientific exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States.”…
Catherine Dulac made Officer of the Légion d’honneur
Congratulations to Catherine who, having been appointed in 2022, was awarded the medal in Boston on October 26, 2024!…
Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives American Physical Society Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Jacob on receiving the 2024 Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Follow link for more information…
Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Congratulations to Jacob, a Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows! The award will fund his work on recurrent neural network theory. Follow the link to more information….
Nick Bellono receives SfN Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Nick and his entire lab on this well-deserved honor! Follow the link to more information….
Sam Gershman named Schmidt Science Polymath
Congratulations to Sam on this apt award! It will fund an expansion of his research on learning and memory in single-cell organisms….
How the tempo of sequence memories can be set by learning rules
Farrell M and Pehlevan C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Aug 6;121(32):e2309876121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2309876121…
Film about 2024 Brain Prize winners
Follow the link to the 10-minute film called “The Brain Prize 2024 Ceremony film,” which features Haim Sompolinsky with cameos by others in the Harvard community. It isn’t about the ceremony; it’s an impressionistic portrait of the prizewinners….
Human cortex connectome
Team led by Jeff Lichtman unveils connectome of a slab of human temporal cortex containing all six layers. Links to paper, gallery, and Boston Globe article…
NTT Research gift establishes CBS-NTT Fellowship Program
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…
Haim Sompolinsky awarded The Brain Prize
Haim, Larry Abbott, and Terry Sejnowski received the 2024 award for their “pioneering contributions to the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience” and “seminal contributions to our understanding of the principles that govern the brain’s structure, dynamics and the emergence of cognition and behaviour.” Follow the link for more information….
Marge Livingstone awarded Scolnick Prize
The McGovern Institute at MIT announced that the 2024 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience will be awarded to Margaret Livingstone, Takeda Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School….
GSAS highlights Buckner lab student
Wendy Sun, an MD/PhD student in BBS, is profiled for her work in the CBS Neuroimaging Core…
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….
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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Haim Sompolinsky deepens ties to Harvard
Haim Sompolinsky has joined Harvard full-time, as a Professor in Residence….
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.”…
Venki Murthy joint research agreement with NTT Research
Harvard and NTT Research have established a joint research agreement to support a collaboration between Venki Murthy and Gautam Reddy on flexible navigation. By combining experiments and theory, they anticipate advances in learning representations from sensory input that support efficient reinforcement learning….
A self-supervised domain-general learning framework for human ventral stream representation
Talia Konkle and G. Alvarez…