Steffen Wolff
@SBE_Wolff
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Neuroscientist. Assistant Professor @UMmedschool. Studying motor learning in hope of becoming a better beach volleyball player. @[email protected]
Baltimore, MD
Joined October 2019
More than happy to announce that I will open my lab at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore this March! Big thanks to all who made this possible! The Wolff Lab will study all facets of motor skill learning and is hiring at all levels!
wolff-lab.org
We study all facets of motor skill learning.
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The Wolff Lab is looking for a #Postdoc for a NIH-funded project to study how distinct learning systems interact. Catch me at SfN or reach out via email if you are interested!.#Neurojobs #AcademicJobs
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First R01 for the Wolff Lab!!! .Extremely happy, grateful and excited! . We’ll be looking for a Postdoc now to explore how distinct learning systems interact - Ad will follow soon!
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If you are at #SfN2023 @SfNtweets - come and check out the first-ever posters from the Wolff Lab! Sophie and Tomi are both presenting Sunday afternoon. Hope to see you there!
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RT @JustusKebschull: The Kebschull Lab is hiring! Are you interested in developing the next generation of barcoded connectomics, and/or und….
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The Wolff Lab is hiring! Ever wondered if rats can learn to play beach volleyball (or other cool skills)? Looking for a postdoc position and want to find out? Check out our research on motor skill learning and hit me up at #sfn2022 or send me an email!.
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Great to see this out! Congrats to all, especially to @KrisTorpJensen !.
Long-term stable motor behaviors are generated by single neuron activity patterns in motor cortex and striatum that are themselves highly stable. New from @KrisTorpJensen @NKadmonHarpaz @AsheshDhawale @SBE_Wolff @BOlveczky @HarvardOEB @harvardbrainsci .
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RT @UMMedNeuro: Our Virtual Open House is TODAY at 5pm EST! Join us via Zoom to learn about our program & admissions process and talk with….
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RT @UMMedNeuro: Interested in a PhD in Neuroscience? Join our Virtual Open House on Nov. 8th to learn about our program here at the Univers….
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RT @BrianMathur1: What is the claustrum doing? 🧵. We synthesize a new theory. Network Instantiation in Cognitive Control (NICC) . It's buil….
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Very thankful for this award @klingensteinorg @SimonsFdn and super excited to explore multi-skill learning! If that sounds exciting to you, too, join us! Postdoc ad coming soon.
Congratulations @SBE_Wolff, @UMmedschool recipient of a 2022 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience for the project “Cortical-subcortical interplay in the execution of multiple motor skills,” @SimonsFdn
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Our research was on TV! Thanks to @nbcwashington for the nice piece on our recent paper with @BOlveczky :
nbcwashington.com
Researchers at the University of Maryland say they’ve discovered new clues about how the brain works when learning new activities such as playing an instrument or a sport. News4’s Doreen Gentzler...
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RT @_TomLongden: Delighted to share our latest manuscript on capillary #pericyte control of brain blood flow. We show pericytes can monitor….
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A brief write-up of our recent paper.
In a study by Steffen Wolff, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology at the @UMmedschool, and his @Harvard colleagues, rats showed how brain regions work together to train and carry out a practiced skill through "dancing." #UMSOM #Harvard
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PS.: If you find this story interesting, you should check out my lab website – we are currently looking for a postdoc! 17/17.
wolff-lab.org
We study all facets of motor skill learning.
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We’d like to thank the reviewers and the editor for helping to make the paper stronger and thank you for reading to the end! 16/.
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Nevertheless, much is left to figure out about how these behaviors are learned and controlled, but we hope our study will bring us a step closer to understanding the circuit logic by which the mammalian brain acquires new motor skills. 15/.
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In summary, our experiments show that cortical and thalamic inputs to the DLS play very different roles in learning and executing the motor skills we train. Our study also addresses the role (or lack of it) of DMS and somatosensory cortex. /14.
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Our new results show that the thalamic inputs play a role in generating these new task-specific movement patterns. Additional experiments even suggest that the thalamic input synapses may undergo plasticity during learning and ‘store’ at least part of the learned behaviors. 13/.
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