Julia
@JuliaJadeHarris
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Neuroscientist | Group Leader @SWC_Neuro | Let's all sleep more 💤
Joined June 2009
Apply to the best PhD programme in the world!
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🧠 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🖥️ Close links to @GatsbyUCL Apply by 3 Nov: https://t.co/8g0atYhP2g
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This has been a long time coming! Really happy to announce Aeon, the culmination of my main Ph. D. work! A true everything platform for behavioral / systems / computational neuroscience
New from @SWC_Neuro, @GatsbyUCL, @NeuroGEARS & @DataJoint: Aeon - an open-source platform combining long-term neural recording with naturalistic behavioural tracking in enriched habitats. 📑Preprint: https://t.co/gnFBvSa8vf 📄 Story behind the platform:
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This is a great series - come and share your work at SWC!
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 10 July: https://t.co/Dl6HzX8PYh
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Come join us at SWC for a movie night and the chance to talk to the stars! Incredibly inspiring people living with acquired brain injury, who are also volunteering to be asked lots of questions about their lived experience by neuroscientists. They'll be quizzing us in return 🍿🧠
Join us for a film screening and panel discussion of Headway East London’s The Magic of Chaos, a short documentary about brain injury, community, and new identities. 📅 13 May, 6pm 📍 SWC, London 🎟️ Register
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Sleep-wake-related changes in intracellular chloride regulate plasticity at glutamatergic cortical synapses: Current Biology
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Alfonsa et al. show that sleep-wake history can account for variations in chloride-dependent EGABAA, which bidirectionally regulate glutamatergic LTP by modulating membrane potential dynamics....
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🤩 Wow! A @Pixar show on which I (wearing my sleep research hat) consulted, Dream Productions, has been released to the world early! Yesterday! I haven’t watched yet. Please watch 👀and tell me what you think. I’m so excited!!!!
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Huge congrats to @Karyna_mi for her paper published today in @ScienceMagazine! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠 https://t.co/6RgR5Iu6FL 1/7
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I am very lucky to have met some of the completely inspirational people in this film, and to have experienced the magical chaos at Headway. Working together on a project about memory was certainly one of the most memorable experiences of my life! @HeadwayELondon #braininjury
Watch @HeadwayELondon The Magic of Chaos, a film by Kit Vincent about #braininjury, community & new identities. Discover how the transformative power of art, music, food and community can bring light to lives forever changed by brain injury. https://t.co/HxF7dKDYAJ
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Beautiful work
I’m happy to share my main PhD work now published! 🥳🥳🥳 We found that a salient emotional experience can be linked with a memory from days ago, and this linking occurs through co-activity of the two memory representations during a period of rest.
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🌟 Cai Lab @Nature paper alert! In new work led by @mysteriousjoe_, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/9) Read it here: https://t.co/Ur8dbGfuP3
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Agreed! This is truly amazing
This will be amongst the most important papers on olfaction and, frankly, “sensory” neuroscience.
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Thrilled to share the first preprint from the lab! We find that mouse V1 contains a three-dimensional map of visual space with different populations of neurons responding to near and far visual cues! Led by @yiran25_ with @populusalba9 and @ant_blot. https://t.co/qYig6bEnih 1/n
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Depth perception is essential for visually-guided behavior. Computer vision algorithms use depth maps to encode distances in three-dimensional scenes but it is unknown whether such depth maps are...
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Are you working with in vivo optogenetics? Ever wondered what the impact of shining laser light within the brain in the absence of exogenous opsins has on neuronal activity? PLEASE SEE https://t.co/XS4TV867KE & READ 🧵👇 work done @SWC_Neuro, thx Mateo Velez-Fort & Troy Margrie
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Genetic engineering of exogenous opsins sensitive to a wide range of lightwavelengths allows the interrogation of brain circuits to an unprecedented temporal and spatial precision. In particular,...
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This is such an amazing PhD programme, taking students from around the world with diverse backgrounds and a passion for neuroscience. Apply and join SWC!
Applications now open! Join the SWC PhD Programme 2025 🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 💂 Based in London with close links to @GatsbyUCL Learn more and apply by 11 Nov: https://t.co/8g0atYhP2g
#PhD #Neuroscience
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@erlichlab @omgauld and the Duan lab are hiring 3 research assistants! To contribute to training head-fixed and freely-moving mice in economic decision-making tasks and related recording/imaging/perturbation experiments and analyses. Come join us!
We’re hiring 3 Research Assistants! Join @erlichLab and @AnnDuan2 in groundbreaking research aimed at uncovering how neural population dynamics drive flexible and cognitive behaviours. Learn more and apply: https://t.co/iRMU8XZpVo
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We are looking for postdocs funded by an ERC starting grant to investigate the mechanisms of cortical predictive learning! Opportunities to use in vivo whole cell recordings, 2-photon imaging VR for mice, and more. Please reach out if you are interested!
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We are looking for a motivated postdoctoral researcher to conduct basic research into sensorimotor plasticity in the visual cortex of mice, by utilizing virtual reality systems alongside in vivo...
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What is the nature of sensory prediction error signals in the neocortex? Our research published in @Nature reveals that these error signals are amplified responses to unexpected inputs, mediated by a cooperative thalamocortical circuit mechanism! 1/4 https://t.co/fS9ztjB1St
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Nature - Experiments in mice show that a cortico-thalamic circuit generates prediction-error signals in primary visual cortex that amplify visual input that deviates from animals’ expectations.
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Check out our new work led by @NateZuk, co-supervused by @MeravAhissar & me -- an EEG study in a perceptual decision making task, showing how neural & beh responses to feedback are different in ASD https://t.co/8cCms4KaRA Read this nice news piece too! https://t.co/BpsX5YBBi7
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People continuously track and adjust their behavior using external and internal signals. Autistic individuals manifest reduced sensorimotor error correction and slower updating of perceptual priors,...
A new @biorxivpreprint from Nathaniel Zuk, Yarden Weiss, @AthenaAkrami and @MeravAhissar explores whether reduced error monitoring could be a reliable biomarker for autism. Read the story: https://t.co/FVTZAcvL9Q
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For fun holiday reading: what is the role of neocortex? The amazing @SaraMederos_ shows that a specific corticofugal pathway is crucial for learning to overwrite instinctive reactions. An epic study going from neural pathway down to synaptic mechanism!
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Fast instinctive responses to environmental stimuli can be crucial for survival, but are not always optimal. Based on prior experience, animals can thus adapt their behavior and suppress instinctive...
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Thank you @katejjeffery for noticing we forgot the link to the paper! 🤦🏻♀️
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Active sampling in the olfactory domain is a fundamental aspect of mouse behavior, and there is increasing evidence that respiration-entrained neural activity outside of the olfactory system sets an...
Delighted to share our recent work together with @JuliaJadeHarris, Deborah Schenider-Luftman and @AndreasTSchafer on a study to observe correlation between respiration in freely moving animals and brain recordings now published in #journalofNeurophysiology!
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