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Tianshu Li (LaCamera lab) will participate as speaker at Janelia Research Campus' Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Neuroscience, Nov 22-27, 2024. Congrats!

July 1

Xiaoyu Yang's paper (LaCamera lab) on the co-existence of synaptic plasticity and metastable dynamics in a spiking model of cortical circuits is out in PloS Computational Biology

June 11

Siddharth Paliwal will present his talk, "Metastability in networks of nonlinear stochastic spiking neurons", at The International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience in Dublin.

May 6

Josh Kogan's paper (Fontanini lab) on learning representations of taste-guided decisions in the mouse gustatory insular cortex is out in Current Biology

Apr 5

Tong Liang's paper (Brinkman lab) on statistically inferred neuronal connections in subsampled neural networksis is out on Physical Review E

Feb 29

Siddharth Paliwal's poster (Brinkman lab), "Interplay between reset and nonlinearity drives metastability in networks of stochastic spiking neurons", was presented at Cosyne in Lisbon, Portugal

Feb 7

Jake Crosser's paper (Brinkman lab) on the application of information geometry to spiking neural networks is out on Physical Review E

Jan 1

We welcome our new faculty member, Siwei Wang. Welcome Siwei!

2023

Dec 15

Tianshu Li (LaCamera lab) has successfully defended her dissertation titled "Neural Mechanisms for Strategy-dependent Decision-making in the Prefrontal Cortex". Congratulations Tianshu!

Oct 19

Giancarlo LaCamera will give a talk at the ICERM Workshop on Topology and Geometry in Neuroscience, Brown University.

Sept 20

Liam Lang (Fontanini lab) has successfully defended his dissertation titled "Metastable Cortical Dynamics During Taste-based Decision-making". Congratulations Liam!

July 16-21

Maria Isaac and Priscilla E Yevoo (Maffei Lab) presented posters at the Gordon Conference: Inhibition in the CNS. Priscilla E Yevoo also gave a talk at the Gordon Conference Seminar: Inhibition in the CNS, the pre-conference symposium with a committee that selects talks by trainees based on poster abstracts.

Jun 15

Memming Park will give a talk on “Persistent learning signals and memory in recurrent networks" at the Univerity of Heidelberg.

Jun 12-13

Members of CNCD presented their work at the NIH BRAIN PI meeting.

May 14-18

Giancarlo LaCamera gave a talk at the minisymposium on "Metastability: Transient Dynamics in Complex Systems" at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Portland, Oregon (US).

May 11

Piotr Sokol (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Geometry of learning and representation in neural networks"

May 1-5

Braden Brinkman gave talks on "Non-perturbative renormalization group analysis of collective behavior in networks of spiking neurons" at the Boston University Dynamics Seminar and the French-German Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation Seminar on Exploring New Topics with Functional Renormalisation.

Apr 19-22

Priscilla E Yevoo, Maria Isaac, and Hillary C. Schiff (Maffei Lab) presented posters at AChemS.

Mar 23

Memming Park will give a talk at the University of Lisbon on "Learning signals in recurrent networks".

Mar 9-12

Matthew Dowling (Park Lab) will give a workshop talk at COSYNE 2023.

Mar 9-12

La Camera's group will have one poster and Memming Park's group will have three posters at COSYNE 2023.

Mar 1

Tianshu Li (La Camera lab) will give a seminar at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science

Feb 28

LaCamera's group published a model of decentralized vision from dermal photoreceptors to explain visual orientation in sea urchins. The paper has appeared in the Journal in iScience.

Feb 24

Braden Brinkman will give a talk at the More and More Neurons Symposium titled "Non-Perturbative Renormalization Group Analysis of Collective Behavior in Networks of Spiking Neurons".

Jan 24

Tong Liang (Brinkman Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Statistical inference and mathematical modeling of nonlinear behavior in stochastic biological systems". Congratulations Tong!

Jan 19

Josue Nassar (Park Lab) was named a finalist for the SUNY chancellor distinguished PhD graduate dissertation. Read more here.

Jan 11

Maffei and Fontanini's groups published a paper in Science Advances titled "Experience-dependent plasticity of gustatory insular cortex circuits and taste preferences".

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