Flavio Donato
@FlavioDonato82
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Interested in all things memory, space, and the infant brain. @FensKavliNet Scholar. Assistant Professor @biozentrum @unibasel_en.
Basel, Switzerland
Joined July 2011
How can memories persist in the brain when their properties and supporting biological substrates change over time and experiences? Our latest work newly published in @ScienceMagazine proposes that a balance between memory dynamics and persistence is achieved through the
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1/10 Our latest research, led by Monika Moissidis, identifies a mechanism regulating the maturation of PV interneurons in the cerebral #cortex. This is the story @CellCellPress
https://t.co/R94qlCglm6 ⬇︎ thread @dev_neuro @MRC_CNDD @KingsIoPPN @KingsCollegeLon @wellcometrust
cell.com
Neuronal activity triggers PGC-1α-mediated transcriptional programs that drive the late maturation of PV+ interneurons, essential for cortical circuit function. PGC-1α partners with ERRγ and Mef2c to...
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ABBA+BraiAn, an integrated suite for whole-brain mapping, reveals brain-wide differences in immediate-early genes induction upon learning
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Chiaruttini, Castoldi, Requie, et al. present ABBA+BraiAn, a suite for automated whole-brain atlas registration, image analysis, data management, analysis, and visualization of histological sections....
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Super proud PI moment today when my first PhD student @VildeKveim received the Shepherd price for her PhD work at today’s @biozentrum symposium @biozentrum_phds . So lucky to have started my lab with you, Vilde!!
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JUST dropped! Neuron Review on the Evolving Neurobiology of Early-life stress with @mtbirnie . Where is our field? what are our challenges? Where and how are we going? 300 refs. https://t.co/pI78Zua3V3
@UCIrvine @UCIMedSchool
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Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks
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Are you using GCaMP8 or planning to switch from GCaMP6? Then check out this new preprint from our lab! https://t.co/TZcjFdeYG4 - Calcium imaging - GCaMP8 vs. GCaMP6 - Spike inference - Imaging + ephys ground truth With F. Helmchen, K. Svoboda @svoboda314, M. Rozsa & X. Fang.
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Check out the latest preprint from our lab, led by Aytac Kadir Mutlu, on the role of topographically organized dorsal raphe (DRN) activity in regulating forebrain function and adaptive behaviors! 🧵👇@NTNU @KISNeuro
https://t.co/KCLdQShV3j
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New from the lab!! 👉🏼 https://t.co/2JaDgloPLq 📝@NeuroCellPress We discovered that genetically-defined neuron types in the hippocampus form unique manifolds! Dual color imaging, chemogenetics and topological analysis all at once! With @Julio_EI @JuanPQuinta @JAlGallego
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Registration & Abstract Submission is open for the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at @tcddublin in May. Abstract deadline February 14. #EngramsandEnsembles2025 Preliminary Agenda at event website: https://t.co/i9RDN3u0Rp
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See you on the other side, folks! @flaviodonato82.bsky.social https://t.co/zJXJLmrrT6
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Really looking forward to working with @KatieRLong in this exciting @dev_neuro collaboration!!
Neuronal cells in the brain are connected by trillions of synapses; how these connections are formed in mammals are not well understood Prof @L_andreae and Dr Katie Long have been awarded a @UKRI_News BBSRC grant to investigate this further #Neuroscience
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We are organizing a webinar "Mental Health and Challenges in the #LGBTQIA+ Neuro-Community" @network_alba 🏳️🌈. When? On Friday 25 October 🗓️ Do not hesitate to register and actively participate. 👉 https://t.co/SknEXtUU8e ✨Science is better and stronger when is inclusive!✨
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Thrilled our work #SiegelbaumLab @ZuckermanBrain demonstrating a role for the hippocampal CA2 in broader social episodic memory by establishing CA2 as a critical component of the social fear circuit is out! 1/n: https://t.co/nr1GQj6nzm
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Nature Neuroscience - The hippocampal dorsal CA2 enables the recognition of novel conspecifics. Kassraian et al. show that it is also required for discriminating safety- versus threat-associated...
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Dulcis in fundo 😉 don’t miss @noah_leibold ‘s poster today!! #sfn2024
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And here he is now! #SfN24 last day…
Come and hear the latest developments on this story (it gets cooler...😎!) at #SfN24 from @noah_leibold - Wed PM (yes, the graveyard slot, but if you're still around come and chat to us) - PSTR433
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This sounds super interesting, I can’t wait to dive in!! Congrats Lora and team!!!
Check out how spinal cord #celltype diversity exponentially scales up with the #swimtolimb transformation during frog metamorphosis. And, for those of you #evodevoneuro lovers, we also find striking conservation in motor and inhibitory neuron types between amphibians 🐸 and
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The Donato Lab is at #SfN2024! Come by on Wednesday morning to see what we’ve been up to and discuss all things learning, memory, and development. @VildeKveim will present her latest results on how parallel encoding of multiple memory traces in developmentally defined neuronal
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@mattperich clarifies some misconceptions about neural manifolds and argues that they present a conceptually appropriate level at which systems neuroscientists can study the brain. https://t.co/9qoJIrmGDO
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When you cut away the misconceptions, neural manifolds present a conceptually appropriate level at which systems neuroscientists can study the brain.
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The final version of our PyShell🥧🐚 paper is now online @CellCellPress. Check out how diatoms soak up 20% of the Earth's #CO2!🌏 📜 https://t.co/vm0A20XKaS Brilliant work by @DemulderManon, @Jorgendottir, Ginga, Aki, Giovanni, Genji, Yusuke, and all the rest of our collabs 🤗
Meet the PyShell!🥧🐚 Diatom pyrenoids fix up to 20% of the Earth's #CO2🌏. We discovered that their Rubisco is encased in a tight protein lattice that is essential for efficient carbon fixation and cell growth🌱 Super excited to share our new preprint📜: https://t.co/zkYHHLbvBy
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