Past News

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".

2022

Nov 11

Memming Park will give a talk at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

Nov 4

Memming Park will give a talk at HHMI Janelia Research Campus on "Learning signals in recurrent networks"

Jul 14-15

Giancarlo La Camera will give a talk at the "Inquiring (the) mind" workshop in Rome, held to honor the memory of physicist and computational neuroscientist Paolo Del Giudice.

Jun 21-22

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

Apr 29

Giancarlo La Camera contributed a chapter for the Springer book "Computational Modelling of the Brain: Modelling approaches to cells, circuits and networks".

Apr 28

Ian Jordan (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Metastable Dynamics Underlying Neural Computation".

Apr 20

Josue Nassar (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Bayesian Machine Learning for Analyzing and Controlling Neural Populations".

Apr 7

Josue Nassar (Park Lab) was awarded the President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students.

Mar 14-18

Tianshu Li and Xiaoyu Yang (LaCamera lab) gave talks at the APS March Meeting in Chicago (session on "Information Processing in sensory and motor systems")."

Mar 3

The CNCD group has published a featured review on metastable dynamics in cortical circuits in Applied Physics Reviews. Read more here.

2021

Nov 26

Memming Park gave a talk at the Annual Symposium of Korean Society for Computational Neuroscience, titled "Real-time neuroscience".

Oct 9

Memming Park gave a talk at the CRCNS workshop titled "Challenges and perspectives on large-scale neural data analysis".

Sept 29

Josue Nassar (Park Lab) gave an invited talk at the Flatiron institute titled "Maximizing exploration in unknown dynamical environments with (potential) attractors".

Sept 23

Maffei's group published a paper in eNeuro on the impact of reduced dopamine signaling on pyramidal neuron excitability in mouse motor cortex. The work has potential implications for Parkinson's disease.

Jun 15-17

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

Apr 29

Memming Park gave a seminar titled "Neural Dynamics in Neuroscience and Machine Learning".

Apr 6

G. La Camera published a paper in Cell Reports on the link between behavioral performance and metastable neural activity in prefrontal cortex.

Mar 20

G. La Camera gave talk on metastable activity in cortex at AMS section meeting.

Feb 24-26

Memming Park's group will have three posters at COSYNE 2021.

Feb 23

Memming Park is hosting the COSYNE 2021 tutorial session: Lecture by Kanaka Rajan. TAs include Ayesha Vermani and Josue Nassar from Memming's group.