I'm psyched to share that my PhD paper is now out in @NeuroCellPress ! It's also my first paper as both first author and corresponding author, which means even more to me! 🥳 Thank my partner @ChiChiehLee_tw for her contribution to the most adorable ever graphic abstract 🥰

(1/8) My latest study is out in @Nature ! Kudos to coauthors especially @jess_cardin and to @KavliAtYale and @WuTsaiYale for support. We find that gamma power in mouse visual cortex is caused by brief events supporting visual processing

This paper may solve a core neuroscience question of the last decades: What is the cortical code? Cognitive cortex also uses tuning, and latent variable span a non-linear manifold. Unlocking this work requires understanding why PSTHs are bad. Here is my toy model and notes:

Finally preprinted! TL;DR: thalamic head-direction neurons can shape their activity regardless of input. Big thanks to @apeyrache and master experimentalist @SSkromne.

The primate visual system is a marvel of nature, inspiring the convnet. But how did it evolve? Do all highly visual mammals possess a ‘ventral stream’—a hierarchy of brain areas with increasing selectivity for complex forms? In our new study, we tackled these questions using

Wrote a little GUI (#TIFFAlign) for manual alignment across multiple calcium imaging sessions. Supports either tiff or Scanbox sbx formats. https://t.co/SkMCbqRKDr #2P #Neuroscience #calciumimaging #miniscope #imaging #scanbox

Our lab’s 1st paper is out on bioRxiv! What many (including us) thought were temporal prediction/error signals, turn out to be intrinsic interval-timing signals. Led heroically by my student Yicong @yicong4ever with amazing support from the whole lab. https://t.co/5bKkcvpC72

New in @ScienceMagazine! 🎉 Thrilled to share my PhD project, we introduce a new optogenetic approach to study the developing brain - revealing how oxytocin shapes infant behavior. Thanks to my collaborators, @OferYizhar & my family❤️ https://t.co/DECnPvjEKS Here’s the story🧵

Curious about how mice follow odor trails? Excited to share our latest (long-time brewing)! We watched mice on an "endless" treadmill. Combining experiments with Bayesian modeling we show that mice use predictive (not reactive) strategies!

"Striatal visual responses increase prior to visuomotor learning" with: @andrada_marica bioRxiv: https://t.co/ltTfHJW8Og

New workshop! Just before SFN, join the @FlatironInst Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation for a workshop on pynapple and NeMoS. Learn how to use these open-source packages to analyze and model neural data! Accommodation & meals provided. Link⬇️

Awesome preprint from @kwanalexc and colleagues - Structural rewiring in the brain after psilocybin is dependent on what is going on DURING the acute psychedelic experience! https://t.co/FYuAs2ND9X

Honored to receive the Future of Science Fund Scholarship at the #KeystoneSymposia on #LongCOVID & Post-Acute Infection Syndromes. A truly inspiring meeting with new insights and collaborations! #KSLongCOVID26 #PASC #PAIS

Thanks for featuring our study! Check out our paper on binge eating!

tidyplots Time to say goodbye to ggplot2?🫡 "a significant reduction of code complexity" vs ggplot2 https://t.co/6wKFnRrjMn @JanBroderEngler bioRxiv 2024 https://t.co/rqvyMsj5JK

I’m very excited to share that I will join the University of Utah Department of Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2026!! 🎉🏔️🏜️ My lab will focus on body–brain interactions in learning & memory — how do signals from our internal organs remodel the brain & behavior?

Thanks for tweeting our paper! Glad to see it's online now 😁

Finally, some personal updates, since this year I have started my postdoc with @lukesjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, studying prefrontal dynamics in addiction models. Hopefully, soon I'll have something cool to show you all! 🙂

Thanks again to all authors: @malinda_lst Anke Schönherr, Laura Moreno-Velasquez, Lukas Faiss, @BRRost, @mattlark @benjulab Katharina Stumpenhorst @MarionRivalan York Winter

I'd like to highlight and thank @CanedoRiedel , the Kelsch lab, and @russo_eleon for their contribution, where they analyzed the functional connectivity between OT and aPC and showed the recruitment of OT –| aPC circuit after odor presentation! Crucial link between OT and aPC!

In this version, we identified the missing link in the last version, a circuit mechanism of how the olfactory cortex (aPC) is suppressed during binge feeding. The GABAergic neurons in the olfactory tubercle (OT) perfectly mirror the aPC neuronal dynamics during feeding!!