New preprint from the lab. @markgergues.bsky.social and crew show that the PVT gates ventral hippocampal salience coding, shifting output between threat- and reward-weighted representations during associative learning and anxiety-related behavior.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
My main postdoc work is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...! We (myself, Isabel Low, Frances Cho, and @lgiocomo.bsky.social) discovered task-relevant remote representations in entorhinal cortex independent of CA1. #paperthread below! 1/13
Proposed structures/ mechanisms for magnetic sensing in bird (so far):
1) In the beak/ trigeminal Nerve (biogenic magnetite)
2) radical pair-Cryptochrome mediated reaction in the retina
3) The lagena
4) Vestibular canals (electromagnetic induction)
5) Supermagnetic macrophages in the liver.
I had the wonderful opportunity to be part of Rising Stars Symposium this year and it was amazing! Great science, great people and a great place!!
It was one of my highlights of this year!
If you are a neuro grad student, I highly encourage you to apply! ✨
Excited to share the upcoming 6th Annual Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium @utah.edu! great lineup of graduate students presenting exciting neuroscience research.
Looking forward to a fun couple days of science and discussion with a fantastic group of early career scientists.
Feeling energized after hearing this year’s Rising Stars in Neuroscience speak about their science. It has been a real pleasure getting to know this talented group over the last three days.
My mom represents many people who haven’t typically been as politically active but recognize that this is such a critical moment for everyone to speak up. Go mom! #NoKings
To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.