Alessandro Sanzeni

I am excited to share the last work of my postdoc as a Swartz Fellow at NYU on the dynamic routing of large-scale cognitive networks in the neocortex! 🌐🧠 Here's a quick breakdown below : 🧵 preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@KordingLab This might be related nature.com/articles/natur…

We are reading the planning literature in CS at the moment. We can not find actual evidence that the brain represents possible trajectories into the future and then selects the best one. Lots of prediction work though: (e.g.journals.physiology.org/doi/prev/20091…). What do we miss?

Computational neuroscientists 👉 join us to explore new modeling & analysis methods to gather insights from connectomic data and uncover the mysteries of the nervous system 🧠 🏨 Hotel + meals + registration covered Apply by Dec. 3 @ janelia.news/NCR25 @HHMINews @HHMIJanelia @srinituraga @GjorJulijana #connectomics #neuroscience #computationalneuroscience

@TPVogels Nice idea! It would be great if the list could somehow be made public. I started at Bocconi University in Milan two years ago.

Help. I am keeping a running list of #neurotheory / #comp_neuro / #neuroAI / #quant_neuro groups that currently has 222 names; def. incomplete, especially re: younger groups. If you started a group since COVID, or if you want to know if you made my list, give me a ping. RT@ H'sD

Recruiting postdocs! Please get in touch if you wanna discuss projects on biologically plausible learning through TUM's global postdoctoral fellowship tum.de/en/about-tum/c…

It's been hard to find the words, but here goes: I have been given the wonderful opportunity to start as an assistant professor @CUAnschutz in July 2025. That also means opportunities for postdocs & grad students interested in models of motor circuits (simonsfoundation.org/people/laureli…).

@LLogiaco @CUAnschutz Congrats Laureline!

🚨Preprint‼️ 1/ Predicting neural activity is notoriously difficult and requires complicated models. Here we develop simple “minimodels” which explain 70% of neural variance in V1! 🐭🐒 #neuroai @computingnature @marius10p @NunezKant Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Recording 🔬 :

A simple mathematical model perfectly captures the shape and statistics of hippocampal place fields in mouse, rat, and bat, in one, two, and three dimensions. With @nischmainali and @yoramburak. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Luca Trevisan, a beautiful mind - friends, colleagues & students remember the brilliant academic gifted also with great humility and kindness, who sadly passed away yesterday unibocconi.it/en/news/luca-t…

Headed to Lisbon for #Cosyne24! If you're around, check out @vbuendiar's poster tonight (1-021). We're exploring how electron microscopy reconstruction of mouse visual cortex informs mechanistic models of feature selectivity. Your thoughts are welcome!

I am super happy to be giving a talk at this theoretical neuroscience workshop. I am looking forward to it. Please apply! It would be so much fun.

🚨Applications are now open🚨 for the Junior Scientists Workshop on Recent Advances in Theoretical Neuroscience at @ictpnews (June 2024). Check out the list of invited speakers 👇 (orga with @sebastiangoldt, @ai_ngrosso and Francesca Mastrogiuseppe) indico.ictp.it/event/10481/

Please apply! There are a lot of theory/computation people at Allen that you can work with! We work on projects at the interface of Machine Learning, Statistical Physics, and Neuroscience using one-of-a-kind datasets and contributing to design theory-driven experiments.

16/ For those who stuck around till the end, we reward you with @matteofarinella’s wonderful cover visualization of our work!

15/ Despite structural differences, mice and monkeys both exhibit remarkable cortical resistance to heterogeneous inputs, shedding light on circuit mechanisms governing sensory and modulatory effects

New work with @APalmigiano, Tuan Nguyen, @kendmil, and Nicolas Brunel at @NeuroCellPress : Unveiling the Mechanisms Behind Reshuffling Visual Responses via Optogenetic Stimulation in Mice and Monkeys 🐭🐒 (thread follows) cell.com/neuron/fulltex…