Gordon Berman
@gordonberman
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Associate Prof. of Biology @ Emory studying animal behavior
Atlanta, GA
Joined March 2011
New preprint on inferring time-varying couplings in dynamical systems, lead by @CalderonJosuan
https://t.co/IIyw1vr3ef
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First paper from our lab! Led by Emory graduate student Calvin Riiska, we found that skin microtextures remain intact in museum-preserved reptiles. Using this result, we found a new instance of convergent evolution in sidewinding!
royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract. Small-scale structures on biological surfaces can profoundly impact how animals move, appear and interact with their environments. Such textures
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Our newest preprint! Work led by Ben Dykstra (co-mentored by @gordonberman). Some of the first recordings from the iCA3 region during social behaviors. Ben found that iCA3 neurons more strongly represent social recognition information relative to iCA1 .
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My lab is seeking a research technician to study neural circuits & behavior in Drosophila 🪰🧠🧬🔬 Great opportunity for anyone looking to gain more experience before a PhD. Our recent techs have had independent projects and 1st author papers ✨ Info here
devinenilab.org
We are looking for motivated and curious scientists to join our team! We believe that diversity is critical to science, and we strive to create a lab that includes people of diverse backgrounds and...
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You know what they say, "save the best for the last". Come join us.
Excited about our minisymposium at @SfNtweets ! Join us Wednesday afternoon to hear about the functional organization of lateral septum - from molecules to circuits and computations! Session details here: https://t.co/JcLSqVSN2J
#sfn2024
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If you are going to be at SFN and want to see what we have been up to, we have five posters and a talk. All unpublished data, so come give us feedback! Feel free to retweet! Thanks!
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https://t.co/xnExKxwiFq Emory Biology @emorycollege is hiring! We invite applications for a tenure track Asst Prof position in the area of epigenetics, including chromatin biology, nuclear organization, cellular differentiation, development, and/or gene regulation. Please share!
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Come join us at @emorycollege Biology! TT position in epigenetics/gene regulation
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So excited to have this out on @NatureComms
https://t.co/LpGDM1oRFW Excited to see this work from @muruganmalu lab out today! Includes @EmoryMSTP first author @jennisisaac and several other @neurophd_emory grad students! Including @sonia_karkare @jarildy @emorycollege
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Check out the @BagotLab latest publication in @NatureNeuro featuring @esiyer and me! Here, we identify sex specific roles for nucleus accumbens afferents from the ventral hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex in encoding aversive information. 1/12 https://t.co/XaebUK8GXO
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In memory of Tali.
Organisms make decisions based on intrinsic motivation rather than external rewards. This algorithm maximizes empowerment — the capacity for potential actions to influence future states — and shows how it can be linked to organism behavior. 🔗 https://t.co/byaQjei9XG
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So proud of @TanielWinner on her publication showing individual differences in gait dynamics signatures across walking speeds! A product of our collaboration with @gordonberman & @NeuromechanicsL catalyzed by a 'winning' #BME PhD student (now Doctor)! https://t.co/uQ1ufUF3bO
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Gait signature changes with walking speed are similar among able-bodied young adults despite persistent individual-specific differences
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Register now for Year 3 of our 5-day course on Machine Learning for Behavior! Pose estimation, supervised behavior classification, unsupervised clustering (MotionMapper/Moseq), and analysis of behavior dynamics. Bar Harbor in fall is not bad either. https://t.co/FoZPkRByRi
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Thanks @Molas__S and @eLife for the great article highlighting our paper. https://t.co/VOCDEKpBR8
@MahaRashidNeuro @jennisisaac @sonia_karkare
elifesciences.org
A social memory pathway connecting the ventral hippocampus, the lateral septum and the ventral tegmental area helps to regulate how mice react to unknown individuals.
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Check out our reviewed preprint on elife. https://t.co/23YLDkgHCW Congratulations @MahaRashidNeuro , Sarah, @jennisisaac and @sonia_karkare.
Checkout our exciting new preprint. A fantastic effort led by Dr. Maha Rashid @MahaRashidNeuro with important contributions from Sarah Thomas, @jennisisaac, @sonia_karkare and Hannah Klein. https://t.co/X9oT89Sye6 (1/8)
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Why are power laws and heavy-tailed distributions so widespread in animal behavior? We show how behavioral plasticity might be the minimal necessary ingredient w/ M Vergassola @LP_ENS_, Gautam Sridhar @wyartlab @ClaireWyart
https://t.co/NKe2SsboPV (thread below) 1/12
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In this study, non-ergodic models accounting for slow behavioral adaptive changes explain universal long-term patterns observed in the motions of animals, such as larval zebrafish and C. elegans.
As animals shift priorities, their decisions impact how they move. Using a time-varying #model, scientists show how slowly adjusting strategy due to external cues or internal needs explains long-term locomotion behavior seen in C. elegans and zebrafish. https://t.co/eUf1TeOwUR
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I think this was my final senior honors defense! Congrats to Michael on his impactful work in the Weiss lab! Bacterial tolerance and heteroresistance- impressive work @emorycollege Michael will pursue his PhD in Molecular Biology next year @Princeton
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I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of social communication and cognition in budgerigars. We are cracking this system wide open. Please share.
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1/ I am excited to introduce my PhD work with @twit_tats2, @greg_stephens, and @shaevitz, on the 3D tracking and analysis of pairwise zebrafish fights! How do zebrafish interact socially to establish dominance? Check out the preprint! https://t.co/v9DjrCCFvf Thread below!
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Eric and I wrote a preview of the consortium paper by Sam Sober and colleagues on the Myomatrix array, a powerful new device for motor unit recordings. Check out the paper by Chung, Zia et al.! https://t.co/X61z7mBmbP
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