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🎉Thrilled that the lab’s first paper is out today in @Nature! Credit to the amazing @cesca_gst, @HernyMV and @YviJohansson. Thank you to everyone involved in this massive effort! nature.com/articles/s4158…

@shlotfipour @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Thanks Shahrdad :)

@StephensonJones @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Yeah!!!

🎉Thrilled that the lab’s first paper is out today in @Nature! Credit to the amazing @cesca_gst, @HernyMV and @YviJohansson. Thank you to everyone involved in this massive effort! nature.com/articles/s4158…

@MarkHowe72 Thanks Mark! We got there in the end.

@KardamakisAndre @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Thanks Andreas, I was lucky to work with a great team!

@StephensonJones @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Congrats Marcus on this major achievement!

@SilberbergGilad @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Thanks for all the support Gilli 💪

@StephensonJones @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Congrats @StephensonJones @YviJohansson and team!

@vijay_mkn @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Thanks Vijay! Lots more on the way :)

@StephensonJones @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Congrats Marcus and team!

@pgolshani @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Thanks Peyman! Feels special to get the first one out :)

@StephensonJones @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Congrats man!

@ian_wickersham @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Thanks Ian!

@StephensonJones @Nature @cesca_gst @HernyMV @YviJohansson Congratulations, Marcus! Superb work!

Stable maps from drifting neurons: CA1 solves the "representational drift paradox" through coordinated population dynamics. New preprint w/@AntjeKilias @bartos_marlene @JF_Sauer showing that representational drift isn’t random biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

“Where was I again?” Our study published today nature.com/articles/s4158… reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:

Two new postdoc positions available at UCL's Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, with job adverts to be posted shortly. Feel free to DM if interested...

Shelter experience boosts #dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, generating a goal-location memory. Reactivating a neuronal ensemble developed from shelter experience enables navigation to the goal during escape. @Hyungbae_Kwon @KanghoonJung nature.com/articles/s4159…

Super fun - watch in real time as contents are moved from one working memory slot to another :) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

come and join our team in Spain! we are looking for a researcher with a quantitative background to study the neurocompulational logic underlying visual attention-distractor networks

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! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Neuroscience Faculty Job @UniofOxford Our department is searching widely to fill TWO neuroscience professorships (tenured or on track). Deadline : 18th of Nov. Further info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… Apply and join our community. Any question drop me a line.

Cool new evidence of the importance of representations outside of SWRs mPFC neurons that *aren't* modulated by SWRs are more spatially tuned and directionally selective, and mPFC has non-local representations of the upcoming choice independent of SWRs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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 nature.com/articles/s4158…

@HillSchiff @OhioState @OSU_Dentistry Congratulations!! This is so awesome :)

Where in the brain is abstract map generated? It is the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), working together!! Here is our new finding published in @Nature Prefrontal and lateral entorhinal neurons co-dependently learn item–outcome rules Heechul Jun†, Jason Y. Lee†, Nicholas R. Bleza, Ayana Ichii, Jordan D. Donohue & Kei M. Igarashi* Nature (2024) nature.com/articles/s4158… When you learn new items, your learned knowledge is sorted into an “internal map” of the brain. An internal map, also called as an “abstract map”, is made of population activity of many neurons. In this new work led by Heechul Jun @jun_heechul and Jason Lee @jasonyensunlee, we found that the LEC deep layers and mPFC co-dependently generate abstract map during learning. These two areas had bidiretional anatomical connections, making a loop circuit. Inhibition of the LEC disrupted the abstract map in the mPFC, and mPFC inhibition deleted LEC abstract map. Our message is: LEC and mPFC are best friends! @AnatomyNeurobio @UCIMedSchool @uci_bme @UCIEngineering @UCI_NeurCircuit @ucicnlm @ucimind @UCIrvineNews @UCIrvine