New book on navigation (open access). The result of the Ernst Strüngemann Forum 2024. Was great to be there and discuss for a week with 50+ wonderful colleagues. Many thanks to the organizers, Julia Lupp + ESF team, the editors
@noranewcombe.bsky.social, Ken Cheng
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Didn’t read the paper, but did you mean these flashes are the norepinephrine sensor? Never seen a such a sensor that “visibly” changes brightness.
This first person history by John O'Keefe of the discovery of place cells is a must read.
This whole special issue is full of gems. It's edited by my PhD advisor Michael Hasselmo. It's filled with first person accounts of famous discoveries. Fantastic idea.
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Huge field-of-view, fast, high res. two-photon imaging. This technology (paper link below) is available now, in the Ventana products.
Sold as complete turnkey systems, or components. pacificoptica.com/ventana/
Installations are happening now at some of the best labs in the world.
The solution to the binding problem is that there is no binding problem. The visual cortex represents naturally co-occurring patterns of information rather than processing isolated features.
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision
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To get good two-photon calcium imaging signals, you need photons. So you want bright indicators, like the GCaMP8 series.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
HOWEVER, that's not the whole story... (1/3)
Extremely proud of Johanne Egge Rinholm who won the students’ prize of best teacher at the medical faculty across all years. Almost 500 teachers, only one 🏆 🥇.
www.med.uio.no/studier/aktu...
First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Comparison of place field detection methods and their effect on place field stability and drift in mouse dCA1 for freely moving 1-photon imaging data
The most sensitive green and red #norepinephrine #sensors engineered to date are out in #naturemethods! Deeply grateful to all our funders and contributors who made this work possible. A true team effort. @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Agree this is a very cool paper.
The result is that soma-dendritic mismatch reflects an error (teaching) signal.
Below panel (5e) is key data, supporting the idea that their SD residual approach captures differences in their two populations as a function of the behavioral outcome (error).
We are #hiring 2 PhD students at the University of Oslo! 🇳🇴
1️⃣ Systems Neuro: Spatial memory & addiction
2️⃣ Neuro/Cancer: Glioblastoma invasion.
Details: vervaeke-lab.org/Hiring
Please RT! 🔄 @UiO_LifeSci #Neuroscience #PhD #SystemsNeuro #Glioblastoma
You know what? For €25, this is not a bad way to add a digital read-out to a stereotaxic frame.
I'm measuring about a 20 micron discrepancy per millimeter between the DRO and the stereotax; not terrible.
#neuroSkyence 🧠
We had a lot of fun doing these experiments! Theta sweeps in MEC and internal direction signals in parasubiculum track moving objects during pursuit and reverse during backward movement. Simultaneously recorded HD cells in other areas remain locked to head direction across behaviors:
A split view of a single PDF document. Two different pages from the same document are shown
Maybe this isn't new, but I just noticed in the new @zotero.org version 8 that you can do split view of a PDF. Really nice feature for quickly checking results against methods
Coincidence of thalamic HD signal and retrosplenial visual input is detected in the Presubiculum! 🎯 This may be the neuronal basis for landmark anchoring of the HD signal. Pleased to announce the VOR is now available elifesciences.org/articles/92443 Congrats first author Louis Richevaux 🙌
Awn
Will this show up in the lab - or home use?
Congratulations Nao!
I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Surprising immune-neural function shown by Simone at the Imperial College London!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Funding wise, this seems to be my year 💪🤩
Now setting up an interdisciplinary convergence environment to figure out mechanisms of OPRM1 mutation & importance for addiction
Co-PIs @koenvervaeke @deopandey @osmangani
www.uio.no/english/rese...
How does the brain balance learning new things without overwriting what it already knows? Our new paper tackles this long-standing stability–plasticity dilemma during active navigation. With Tony Drinnenberg from the Deisseroth Lab (@deisseroth.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🧪 We got the privilege to write a Preview on the beautiful work of Morabito, Zerlaut, Rebola and colleagues that was recently published in Neuron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ripple contributions to human memory: making the spiking content count — a Review by Joel Reithler, Kelsey K. Sundby & Kareem A. Zaghloul
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information:
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...
