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…
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….
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…