Neuroscientist, postdoc in Stephenson-Jones lab at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Ole Christian Sylte
Out now in @plos.org CB: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Neural representations of tasks change over time, even in the absence of changes in task performance. But neurons change tuning at different rates. How does a neuron's stability relate to its interactions with the population?
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🧠 Opportunity for a PhD position: Studying interneurons and memory, using cutting-edge techniques, such as patch-clamp electrophysiology, in vivo calcium imaging, optogenetics and behavioral experiments.
Interested? Have a look here for more information:
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Latest article from the lab is out: "Behavioral dynamics of different stages of sexual motivation in male and
female rats".
New preprint from the lab!
A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.
Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊
Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules.
Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I’m happy to share our new paper (with @mbartos.bsky.social) now out in Nature Neuroscience:
"The dentate gyrus efficiently converges LEC and MEC inputs into multimodal, highly specific and reliable environmental representations"
Download it @ rdcu.be/famDE
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🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments?
Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme.
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Congratulations to @olechsylte.bsky.social on receiving a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🎉
Ole will investigate how the brain transforms spatial knowledge into goal-directed actions.
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 30 June:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Now that the science days are over, I can happily share some of my designs :)
Thanks to all the @in-code.bsky.social members who made these days a success! It was intense but worth it!
And huge thanks to @sophiekb.bsky.social that was in charge of making this happen
Sexual motivation is a complex concept involving both the initial drive to begin mating and the motivation to sustain copulation. Disruptions in sexua…
Author summary Activity in the brain represents information about the outside world and how we interact with it. Recent evidence shows that these representations slowly change day to day, while memori...
Flexible behaviour requires transforming abstract cognitive representations, such as value preferences, into concrete motor actions. During economic decision-making, individuals evaluate options to gu...
