I'm really proud of my two graduate students, Hyein and Hayagreev, for getting this challenging and exciting project across the finish line. We reveal the state-dependent logic that underlies callosal signaling between the somatosensory cortices. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stellar lineup at Barrels this year... please register soon!!
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Hi friends, If you haven't seen it already, I was part of a mess this week — about science in the United States, and about NIH research aimed at understanding things like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, and depression.
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Across the neural hierarchy, sensory maps are thought to transition from a faithful representation of receptor space to a map weighted by learned associations. Where does this transformation occur? In our latest paper, we explore a value-based spatial transformation between cortex and midbrain.
I'm hiring a full-time research technician to work in my lab at Nathan Kline. Benefits included! Some lab experience preferred... experience with mouse surgeries a huge plus. If you live in NYC, there are two daily shuttles that take ≈20 min from upper manhattan. nki.applicantpro.com/jobs/3663631
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How sensory signals from both sides of the body are integrated into a single percept is not well understood. Park et al. show that callosal signaling supports the integration of bilateral tactile stim...
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The Emotional Brain Institute (EBI) is a multidisciplinary institute aimed at addressing fundamental questions in neuroscience and neuropsychiatry. We seek to hire a research technici...
The 38th Barrels Meeting
November 13–14, 2025
(just before #SfN)
UC San Diego
Registrants may submit requests for short talks and poster presentations.
Invited speaker list and registration link in replies ⬇️
Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE.
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Jordan Hamm
🚨 Paper alert! What if you could eavesdrop on a neuron's electrical dynamics without ever breaking in? Our new study uses DNA origami tiles that self-insert into live neuronal membranes, even dendrites, to form stable ion channels. In fact, even repeated intracellular access from the same cell 🧬⚡
Happy to have contributed a chapter to this book and excellent resource!
Randy Bruno
Jeremy Berg
Krishna Jayant
Krishna Jayant
Self-inserting DNA origami tiles form stable nanopores across live neuronal membranes, enabling intracellular-like voltage recordings, small-molecule delivery and access to hard-to-reach dendrites wit...
Looking forward to hearing about new traveling wave work next week from @kjayant.bsky.social
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
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www.biorxiv.org
Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 01 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02180-7Self-inserting DNA origami tiles form stable nanopores across live neuronal membranes, enabling intracellular-like voltage recordings, small-molecule delivery and access to hard-to-reach dendrites without membrane rupture.
