Norbert Fortin

A massive thank you and congratulations to you, @kw_cooper, for leading this humongous project. We hope this review paper is a fun and useful read to those interested in data analysis of neural activity data.

A huge thank you to my co-authors @NorbertFortin at @ucicnlm, @UCIneurobio and Babak Shahbaba at @UCIbrenICS Check out the paper and visit neurodatascience.org for updated resources and tools!

There is something in each section for everyone: students can get a field-level "big picture" (past), experts can stay current on new methods (present), and research program planners can identify the gaps (like data storage and training) we need to fill to reach the future.

From mechanical gears in the 1930s to deep learning in the 2020s, the way we study the brain has been a race between technology and analysis. How do we close the gap? Our new paper, doi.org/10.1080/269418… traces this journey, offers resources, and notes a plan for the future.

Can I interest you in some non-spatial sequence replay in hippocampal ensembles? Perhaps you’d prefer some ordinal or schematic representations in prefrontal ensembles? Check out our posters Tuesday afternoon: WW48-51 😉 @Neurogaelias @kw_cooper @mansi_saraf @ucicnlm

@ElDuvelle @NatureComms @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci @UCIbrenICS Yeah, I was planning a quick thread summarizing the findings and figures but I underestimated how much time this would all take. 😄 Hopefully I’ll get back to it soon.

Our paper on the hippocampal mechanisms supporting the memory for nonspatial event sequences just came out in @NatureComms! Very proud of our collaborative team of neuroscientists (@ucicnlm, @UCIBioSci) and data scientists (@UCIbrenICS). Details to come! rdcu.be/cGAHU

@markpaulbrandon This is awesome, congrats!

New paper! We provide an important clue into the neuronal basis that underlies spatial memory deficits commonly reported in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease. Spoiler alert... grid cells! Article here: nature.com/articles/s4146… Our preprint thread below!👇

"Moving bar of light evokes vectorial spatial selectivity in the immobile rat hippocampus" Now in @Nature. If O'Keefe & Nadel had walked into a bar with Hubel & Wiesel in 1960s, instead of hippocampal place cells they might have been called VEVS. rdcu.be/cGGNl 1/4

@NatureComms @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci @UCIbrenICS nature.com/articles/s4146…

Big congrats to @kw_cooper for landing a prestigious NSF GRFP! We're all proud of you and couldn't ask for a better team member. Looking forward to working on that ambitious project with you at the @ucicnlm! Some truly exciting stuff to come. 🥳

@adinvivo @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci Welcome to the team, Aditya! This will be fun. Looking forward to a lot of cool data. 😄

Happy to join the Fortin Lab at the Department of Neurolobiology and Behavior, UC Irvine. @NorbertFortin @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci

@adinvivo @ucicnlm @UCIBioSci Welcome to the team, Aditya! This will be fun. Looking forward to a lot of cool data. 😄

@kei_m_igarashi @NeuroCellPress @jun_heechul This is great, congrats!

Our new paper is out in Neuron @NeuroCellPress bit.ly/2OIPayn We found that "remapping" of hippocampus place cells is disrupted in Alzheimer's disease model, suggesting a circuit mechanism causing spatial memory impairment in AD. 3yr-work by Heechul Jun @jun_heechul!

Less than 3% of all psych & neuro faculty are Black Keep this in mind during your faculty searches. And don’t mention a “leaky pipeline”. Fix it. #RepresentationMatters 🧠

Couldn’t be prouder of our neighborhood. All these busy families showed up for a peaceful protest on short notice. Let’s keep this momentum going!

@AllenNeuroLab @Maanasa_Jay @Sunnyschlecht @svmahler Always a good feeling to see former lab members do well on their own. Congrats Tim (and team)! Great work!

Interested in prefrontal circuits involved in memory retrieval? Congrats to all the authors @Maanasa_Jay, @Sunnyschlecht, Stephanie Linley, @svmahler, and Bob Vertes! Prefrontal Pathways Provide Top-Down Control of Memory for Sequences of Events cell.com/cell-reports/f…

@brittneymcox Awesome! Glad to hear it’s out! Really cool work.

New paper from our lab :) 'Acquisition of temporal order requires an intact CA3 commissural/associational (C/A) feedback system in mice' nature.com/articles/s4200…

@kei_m_igarashi Welcome to the club. I think it’s harder to get one of those than landing an RO1. ;-)

Irvine Renegades - winter wars U12A champs! #letsgoducks