PI at meep-neep (MPI for neurobiology of behavior) studying worm feeding and foraging behavior. I ❤️ imaging, watching worms wiggle and Friday experiments.
scholz-lab.com
Monika Scholz
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I am so not surprised! RL is in essence 'fitting' a High-Parameter, non -linear dyn. model to move a fly body. We know motor actuation isn't super high dimensional so why wouldn't a low N neuron model be able to do it? The connectome adds some reasonable sparsity and structure-even better.
Such an exciting time to be in neuroscience. To study how animals do the amazing things they do: from collective behaviors to navigation, camouflage and more. How can we define the constraints of a sensory system if we don't study diverse animals and their behaviors?
Oh and #fundscience.
What do #neuromodulators do in the #brain? Two recent papers give new insights:
@nishantjoshi.bsky.social shows they do not only reshape individual cellular properties, but also the architecture linking them, thereby expanding the computational repertoire.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Monika Scholz
Piali Sengupta
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.
Anyway: fund basic research.
👀 looking forward to reading it!
Oh this is awesome! 🤓
On my way to @mpiforbi.bsky.social to share our recent work tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing Herwig, @fleyes.bsky.social and others there!
Also it involves a beautiful train ride diagonally through Germany, and working on a train cannot be beat.
