Kevin Sean Chen

Out @eLife! @kevinschen13 & @contact_rui_wu report a new method to study odor guided navigation of worms & fly larvae on agar. Metal oxide sensors characterize the odor landscape experienced by the animal. In collab w/ Marc Gershow @NYUPhysics Congrats! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Do you perform optical imaging in behaving animals? An animal's behavior can introduce motion artifacts into fluorescent time traces. Our new method TMAC works by correcting artifacts *after* spatial alignment (1/4) @jpillowtime @AndrewLeifer @kevinschen13 doi.org/10.1371/journa…

My new preprint with @jpillowtime @AndrewLeifer @kevinschen13! An animal's movements during optical neural recordings can induce motion artifacts in the data. We introduce TMAC, a method that uses an activity-independent channel to remove these artifacts. arxiv.org/abs/2204.12595

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

Our symposia continue this semester, via Zoom. Excited by a great lineup of speakers, and about reaching new communities. Join us!

Excited to share our preprint on Directed evolution of microbial communities!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… No work can describe how much I enjoyed working with co-first @Oxfordvila and @asanchez_lab!!

Sad news. Horace Barlow, one of the great thinkers about the brain, has passed away. Born 8 Dec 1921, he saw almost a full century, and taught us about vision, perceptual inference, neural coding, learning, and more. #neuroscience #vision #NeuralNetworks

Grateful to be part of amazing @Princeton team developing monitoring system for COVID patients. Preprint: "Inexpensive multi-patient respiratory monitor for helmet ventilation during COVID-19 pandemic" w/ source, CAD and assembly video. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

The #PrincetonU Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and residential college. bit.ly/2YCctPR

A new preprint, brought to you largely by immigrants: Experiments reveal a connection between synapse formation and dendritic growth; impairing synapse formation turns Purkinje cell dendrites from squares to triangles. Modeling captures it & suggests why! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Albert Einstein giving a lecture on relativity in 1946 (after the war, before the civil rights movement). His peers criticized this appearance. The press purposefully didn't cover it. He simply wanted to inspire young minds with the beauty and power of science.

New from @jason_z_kim "Teaching Recurrent Neural Networks to Modify Chaotic Memories by Example" arxiv.org/abs/2005.01186. Principles for how neural systems sustain, manipulate, & extrapolate dramatic changes in complex temporal data simply by perceiving & imitating examples.

My rotation project in the Sanchez lab is out on bioRxiv! This work also serves as my first experimental project using microbes and it was a lot of fun! Many thanks for the amazing supervision by @metaboli3am and @asanchez_lab!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does brain wiring change after birth? We tried to answer that question by mapping the wiring diagrams, or connectomes, of eight C. elegans brains across different life stages. See our preprint (and this thread) for the insights we found: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/9

Sad news today. Farewell to Robert May. Science Board member at @sfiscience. He made huge contributions to the study of ecological complexity, including chaos theory, epidemiology, virus dynamics, biodiversity and evolution. researchgate.net/publication/23…

Coming soon. Apparently 1000 people registered (!). Guessing they have room for a few more. Very much looking forward to the discussion - join us!

If you have good contacts in underserved countries, communities etc, please help us get out the word for neuromatch academy (neuromatch.io/academy), the online 3 week summer school where neuroscientists learn computation. Application deadline 4/27. Participants so far:

@rachel_s_l Yes thanks for sharing:) I'll try to spread the word... people in Taiwan don't really use twitter though, haha

@kevinschen13 would you want to retweet to Taiwanese neuroscience-students to also join?

following @marcelomattar lead, encouraging anyone and everyone to sign up for the online 3 week summer school for neuroscientists to learn computation. also excited to see that Taiwan is showing up on the map!

RIP John Conway... Organisms may be mortal but the Game of Life goes on forever.