And tomorrow in Lisbon, @csdashm.com is presenting our poster on geometric scaling of dendrites, synaptic allocation, and metabolic constraints across cortical neuron types at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social! Sad I couldn't make it in person, but so glad Casey can be there on my behalf. (5/5)
...in a way that I think matters for how we model neurodegeneration spatially. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
B-BIND itself was also accepted at the Annals of Applied Statistics and is now in press; the caudate work is one of several applications we're developing on top of it (4/5)
Also out: a new SEA-AD consortium preprint led by Omar Kana on how the caudate nucleus responds to AD pathology. I contributed an updated B-BIND to model disease progression there. The caudate has some genuinely weird pathological features compared to cortical regions.. (3/5)
Apical-like vs. basal-like architectures aren't just anatomically different, they learn qualitatively different function classes and retrain differently. Glad this one found a home with the neuroAI/ML crowd. openreview.net/forum?id=8RO... (2/5)
It's been a busy few months of science!
My paper with @mabuice.bsky.social on dendritic morphology and neuronal computation got accepted at NeurIPS 2025. Does the shape of a neuron constrain what it can compute? Turns out yes - branching geometry places bounds on computational complexity. (1/5)
I used my PhD advisor’s “sink or swim” analogy for independent fellowships, but what felt metaphorical then are real challenges for me now: visa timelines, funding uncertainty, and the two-body problem. Let’s connect if this resonates, or if you like my research and want it to go on. (2/2)
Thanks to the @alleninstitute.org comms team for this feature! (1/2)
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