Van Hooser Lab

"Juvenile Shank3 KO mice adopt distinct hunting strategies during prey capture learning" by Chelsea Groves Kuhnle, Micaela Grimes, Victor Manuel Suárez Casanova, Gina Turrigiano, and Steve Van Hooser. eneuro.org/content/early/… @TurrigianoLab @KuhnleGroves @suarez_damien

New preprint, "Targeted cortical stimulation reveals principles of cortical contextual interactions", by Shen Wang, Agostina Palmigiano, Ken Miller, and Steve Van Hooser biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Preprint "Juvenile Shank3 KO mice adopt distinct hunting strategies during prey capture learning" by Chelsea Groves Kuhnle, Micaela Grimes, Victor Manuel Suárez Casanova, Gina Turrigiano, and Steve Van Hooser biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

The Van Hooser lab at Brandeis University is seeking a research assistant for a 1-3 year position. The lab studies the development and function of visual cortical circuits using brain imaging, electrophysiological techniques, and optogenetic methods (vhlab.org).

New paper: Construction and Implementation of Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Arrays for Chronic and Acute In Vivo Recordings by Kristen Reikersdorfer and Andrea Stacy, David Bressler, Lauren Hayashi, @kbhengen , and @vanhoosr in JOVE: jove.com/t/62760/constr…

Preprint "Impact of acute visual experience on development of LGN receptive fields in the ferret" by Andrea Stacy, Nathan Schneider, Noah Gilman, and Steve Van Hooser now on biorxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Come join us as a member of the Teaching faculty! Neuroscience at Brandeis is hiring a Lecturer, who will join our strong group of professional science Teaching Faculty and 25 research labs, 50 graduate students, and 180 undergraduate majors. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18378

New pre-print "Paired feed-forward excitation with delayed inhibition allows high frequency computations across brain regions" by Alex Cao and Steve Van Hooser biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Updated "NDI: A platform-independent data interface and database for neuroscience physiology and imaging experiments" by D García Murillo, O Rogovin, Y Zhao, S Chen, Z Wang, Z Keeley, D Shin, V Suárez Cassanova, Y Zhu, L Martin, O Papaemmanouil, and me: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our department is hiring! This is a great opportunity to come to an amazing and highly collaborative department!

Applying for PhD programs? Love Boston? Watch our video to request fee waivers and see why Brandeis is a nurturing, collaborative, interdisciplinary place for Biochemistry/Biophysics, MCB, or Neuroscience PhDs! @BrandeisNeuro @BrandeisMCB @BrandeisScience youtube.com/watch?v=d1ORM5…

New paper "Synaptic and intrinsic mechanisms underlying development of cortical direction selectivity" by Arani Roy, Jason Osik, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, Wesley Alford, Dan Leman, and Steve Van Hooser accepted/published at eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/58509

New paper "Experience-dependent development of dendritic arbors in mouse visual cortex" by Sarah Richards, Anna Moore, Alice Nam, Shikhar Saxena, Suzanne Paradis, and Stephen Van Hooser accepted at Journal of Neuroscience. Biorxiv version: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

On June 10, 2020, vhlab will participate in #ShutDownSTEM to plan to eradicate racism. shutdownstem.com

New paper: Autism-associated Shank3 is essential for homeostatic compensation in rodent V1, with @TurrigianoLab and our joint student Chelsea Groves Kuhnle: authors.elsevier.com/c/1bAbf3BtfGx2…

Preprint "NDI: A platform-independent data interface and database for neuroscience physiology and imaging experiments" by Daniel García Murillo, Ora Rogovin, Yixin (Peter) Zhao, Shufei Chen, Ziqi Wang, Olga Papaemmanouil, and Stephen D. Van Hooser: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Enhanced pre-print "Synaptic and intrinsic mechanisms underlying development of cortical direction selectivity" by Arani Roy, Jason Osik, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, Wesley Alford, Daniel Leman, and Steve Van Hooser now on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New publication in Nature Communications: Roy A*, Wang S*, Meschede-Krasa B, Breffle J, Van Hooser SD. An early phase of instructive plasticity in visual cortex before the typical onset of sensory experience. nature.com/articles/s4146…

New pre-print "Spatiotemporal input reorganization and enhancement of input-output gain sharpen cortical direction selectivity during development" by Arani Roy, Jason Osik, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, Wesley Alford, and Steve Van Hooser on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am excited to announce that we have a search this fall for an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience! Great department (Biology), great Neuroscience community, great University (Brandeis), and great place to live (Boston! MA!). Please spread the word academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14059