(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬

Quick foray back here to say NEW PREPRINT OUT: "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding". I'm biased but I think it's super cool! You can find it here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648… and you can find a summary of it over on the sky place, same username :)

TOMORROW, 8/22! How does hippocampus (HPC) represent task-related stimuli across diff environments, given that HPC cells exhibit place-specific activity that changes across contexts (remapping)? FIND OUT as @Mr_Beto_Corona & @gabs_zb welcome Dr. Hannah Wirtshafter to #MSNseminars

How does hippocampus (HPC) represent task-related stimuli across different environments, given that HPC cells exhibit place-specific activity that changes across contexts (remapping)? 8/22, 3pm, FIND OUT as @Mr_Beto_Corona & @gabs_zb welcome Dr. Hannah Wirtshafter to #MSNseminars

How does hippocampus (HPC) represent task-related stimuli across different environments, given that HPC cells exhibit place-specific activity that changes across contexts (remapping)? 8/22, 3pm, FIND OUT as @Mr_Beto_Corona & @gabs_zb welcome Dr. Hannah Wirtshafter to #MSNseminars

99% off of this platform, find me at the blue place with the same username :)

At least 2,500 applications for research funding have been denied so far this year, more than double the previous two years go.nature.com/3F8kBzT

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@tararaam_ Oh god I didn’t think of this

does anyone know what happens to R00s for diversity K99s? 😭😭😭😭😭

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Interesting experiments! Navigating uncertainty: reward location variability induces reorganization of hippocampal spatial representations biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📣 As promised, here is our protocol paper on chemotagging! This new technique combines calcium imaging with chemogenetics to identify cell types in commonly used Miniscope recordings & can be used to tag ANY CELL TYPE! Read about the technique here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share that our paper is published in @Nature today! This incredible work was led by the amazing @IpshitaZ, one of the most inspiring neuroscientists I met during grad school. She has taught me so much about the pure love for science as well as the strength and resilience needed to navigate its challenges. As a junior PhD student, I was fortunate to learn from her example—her unwavering passion to ask the most important questions in the field, her strength in the face of adversity, and her thoughtfulness as well as warmth left a lasting impact on me. During moments when I felt overwhelmed or the road forward felt hopeless, her strength inspired me to push forward, to try just one more time. Having a role model like her early in my career has been invaluable, and I am deeply grateful to learn from her.

superb!!

@HasselmoMichael superb!!

I am pleased to announce the publication of our special issue on scientific histories of hippocampal research in the journal Hippocampus! This special issue contains articles by many influential contributors to our field. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.100…

The Grossman Center is hosting an RNN Workshop this week! Join us in learning from keynote speaker Alexander Reyes, PhD from NYU, and other presenters. 🗓️ January 9-10th, 2025 📍 SBRI J461 Check out the full schedule here: neuroscience.uchicago.edu/rnn-workshop

Maintaining and updating accurate internal representations of continuous variables with a handful of neurons nature.com/articles/s4159…

Distance-tuned neurons drive specialized path integration calculations in medial entorhinal cortex cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Kariko's publishing record is not, IN ANY WAY, a rebuke of our impact-obsessed publishing system. Only in the HHMI Comic Universe are these Kariko papers low impact. In the real world this is a high prestige, difficult to achieve publishing record. And you can see if you read Kariko's memoir how all the dysfunction we talk about with SNC permeates EVERY journal, and why we need to do more than paper things over by hiding journal names on our CVs - WE NEED TO BLOW THE WHOLE SYSTEM UP.

@leslievosshall @NobelPrize Not sure these are great examples (as pointed out by others too). Immunity has an IF in the 30s/40s and the others are in the 10-20 range! I agree with the sentiment of the tweet, but treating everything below CNS as low impact is also part of the problem...