Live from San Juan: the Connectomics & Brain Simulation Winter School is underway! A week of hands-on connectome analysis, modeling, and student-led projects—can’t wait to see the final presentations. @andrew-seeds.bsky.social, Sebastian Seung, Steffi Hampel, Srini Turaga, Sven Dorkenwald
Apply now!!! 🔥
Applications are now open for our course on connectomics & brain simulation.
Organizers: Sven Dorkenwald (MIT), Stefanie Hampel (UPR), Andrew Seeds (UPR), Sebastian Seung (Princeton), and Srini Turaga (Janelia).
Interested? Apply here ➜ sjcabs.com
Congratulations to the Seeds/Hampel Lab on their new manuscript on BioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Today we welcomed 50 students from UPR Ponce to the Institute of Neurobiology in Old San Juan! They explored our research and learned about the building’s unique history. 🧠🏛️ #NeuroBoricuas #ScienceOutreach #UPRPonce #OldSanJuan
Exciting news - Drs. @andrew-seeds.bsky.social, Sebastian Seung, and Stefanie Hampel just received Simons Foundation and NSF awards to launch the San Juan School on Connectomics in 2026. Stay tuned - it's happening!! 🎉🧠🔥
Congratulations to the lab of Dr. Cristina Velazquez for the acceptance of their paper "Comparative mRNA Profile Analysis from NAc of Adolescent Male Mice after Binge-Like Alcohol Exposure Eliciting Deficits in Context Fear Extinction Learning".
1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain, highlighting remarkable similarities between how parrots and humans learn to produce sounds.
https://go.nature.com/4bImwai
Study section tracking sheet update of the day answers your burning question: Is my study section rescheduled? I've rearranged to put sections that didn't meet on the left and added a column noting if it's been rescheduled. Subject to change as FRNs go out! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...