Emilie Mace

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in @ScienceMagazine!✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass!🧭 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵1/

8/8 Last but not least: Jose Maria is looking for a postdoc in computational neuroscience 🧠💻 Don’t miss the chance to recruit him — he comes highly recommended! 🚀

7/8. In sum: arousal engages a brain-wide hemodynamic wave independent of noradrenergic tone! Huge thanks to all the coauthors, institutions (@yourUMG , @MPIforBI ), and funders (DFG, EKFZ, @MBExC_de) for making this possible! 🙏

1/8. New preprint! Using fUSi in head-fixed mice🐭, we found that arousal events trigger a brain-wide wave of activity 🌊🧠. Surprisingly, this pattern was preserved during manipulations of the locus coeruleus, pointing to a minor role for noradrenaline. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Deadline extended for TENSS 2026 to March 15th!

@maxhodak_ @mardinly Congrats, @mardinly !

Some team updates at Science! My cofounder @mardinly has become Chief Scientific Officer Darius Shahida, an investor since the B, is joining full time to help turn our amazing technologies into an amazing business science.xyz/news/leadershi…

@mardinly @maxhodak_ Congrats Alan & the whole team!

New story: a protein engineering campaign to generate ambient light opsins. Engineering opsins has been limited by experimental throughput. We put an autopatcher on stilts, cut out the bottom, and made a custom lightpath to screen the response surface of over 1,500 opsins.

Excited to share our new work on the large-scale organization of the tree shrew visual system, led by @FrankLanfranchi with @joe_wekselblatt & Daniel Wagenaar! We trace the evolutionary roots of the primate ventral visual pathway—revealing surprises like face cells in a non-social animal and IT-like object coding in V2.

The primate visual system is a marvel of nature, inspiring the convnet. But how did it evolve? Do all highly visual mammals possess a ‘ventral stream’—a hierarchy of brain areas with increasing selectivity for complex forms? In our new study, we tackled these questions using large-scale Neuropixels recordings in the tree shrew, a small, highly visual relative of primates. (1/9) Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… Research Briefing: nature.com/articles/d4158…

@FlavioDonato82 @ScienceMagazine Thanks Flavio!

@EmilieMaceLab @ScienceMagazine Huge congrats, Emilie and team!! Such a cool study!!

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in @ScienceMagazine!✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass!🧭 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵1/

We currently have open positions for PhDs and Postdocs! Interested in learning fUS: please apply! 🧠 brainwidenetworks.uni-goettingen.de/open-positions/ end/

Big thanks to our institutions and funding sources for the support—and to everyone on the team for making this discovery possible! 🙏✨ : @yourUMG , @MBExC_de, @MPIforBI, @mcgillu 9/