We've tracked changes in signal quality over months, which has stabilized. We are using this data for future refinements, including collaborations with materials engineers.
This project has been led by Dr. Sujaya Neupane, who is currently looking for faculty positions!
In our first attempt we've recorded hundreds of neurons from cortex down to hippocampus across almost 4 months, in some cases from the same neurons, and have wireless logging capability thanks to our collaboration with SpikeGadgets.
Very honoured to be receiving a Brain Star Award! I will be giving a talk about this work next week at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Conference in Montréal.
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We're very excited about the detailed insight this technology will give us into neural control, especially in tasks that leverage our wireless capability. Look out for job postings in our lab coming up for researchers interested in questions that take advantage of this technology!
We've finally started moving into our brand new neuroscience facility! 🥳
So excited to be getting into this beautiful space after a long construction period. Be on the lookout for our exciting science – and photos of my new office once I finish interior designing it 👀.
It's been wonderful being part of more and more of these collaborations bringing our markerless tracking technology (ATHENA) into the clinic!
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🚨🧠 Our paper is out! We introduce a simple computational model that generates macroscopic, long-timescale dynamics as seen in large-scale neural recordings. #neuroscience #dynamics @marius10p.bsky.social @zhong-lin.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Link: go.nature.com/4tRNjIu
Jonathan A. Michaels
Jonathan A. Michaels
Jonathan A. Michaels
Jonathan A. Michaels
Jonathan A. Michaels
Jonathan A. Michaels
Jonathan A. Michaels
Amazing talk from @michellemonje.bsky.social on the neuroscience of cancer proliferation. Incredible opportunities for treatment.
Many of the scientific questions we're interested in tackling require studying learning over long periods of time across the brain. This is challenging – which is why we're excited to say we've been developing a system for chronic wireless recording using long Neuropixels probes in macaque monkeys.
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Nature research paper: A critical initialization for biological neural networks
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Basic properties of symmetric random matrices can explain the emergence of macroscopic patterns in neural networks, suggesting that initialization conditions of connected neural populations may confer computational advantages across the mouse brain.
