My laboratory is recruiting a postdoc to work on neural population dynamics for the adaptive control of locomotion. Our approach integrates large-scale recording in freely-moving mice, EMG, behavioral and optogenetic manipulations, and computation. Feel free to get in touch!

My PhD. work at Vatsala Thirumalai lab and my first, first-author work is up as a preprint! What makes cerebellar Purkinje neurons in zebrafish fire spontaneously at high frequency? We investigated which ionic conductances allow tonic firing (1/5) biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Zebrafish Rock!

Are you a postdoc doing neuroscience? Have you not yet had an occasion to be invited to an external seminar? Do you want an opportunity to come to MIT to present your research and explain why it is exciting? Please apply!

Have you ever looked at traces from an extracellular recording and wondered what kind of neurons you are recording from? Five labs across three continents working with two species joined forces to solve this decades-old problem in systems neuroscience. 🧵

1/4: 🥳🎤 Excited to finally share our Commentary on 'Fantastic Beasts and How to Study Them: Rethinking Experimental Animal Behavior' 📝 (🐀🐟🕷️🪰🪱 and more!) Check it out here 🔽 doi.org/10.1242/jeb.24… Please share and let us know what you think 🧐🤓

I'm looking for a postdoc interested in using brain-computer interfaces to study motor control using Neuropixels 🦾🧠. Get in touch! Connected Minds @ York & Queens funding opportunity: yorku.ca/research/conne…

We are happy to share our recent publication in Nature Communications. In this work, we analyzed data recorded simultaneously from the basal ganglia and cerebellum to compare their roles in processing reward and generating movements. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Dreams became reality through Michael Thornton tremendous PhD work! Thrilled this phenomenal collaboration with CU Neurophotonics Restrepo Lab is out in the wild. Looking forward to helping others leverage the powers of long-term three-photon microscopy 💪🏼🤓🔬

We're excited to share our new paper in Current Biology about how the brain can learn multiple tasks without catastrophic forgetting. It was led by Darby Losey, with Jay Hennig, Emily Oby, Matt Golub, Aaron Batista, Steve Chase, and team. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… (1/n)

[1/8] Pleased to share our work that studied cerebellar (CB) contributions to motor cortex (M1)-driven neuroprosthetic control- led by Aamir Abbasi, Ph.D. in the lab, published today in Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨 new paper! This review delves in the literature to answer the question: do motor and social behaviors rely on the *same* cerebellar cellular, synaptic, and molecular pathways? The short answer? They don't. The full text, open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

My lab's first paper is published today in Neuron (#openaccess). Thanks to the authors, collaborators, and reviewers for this milestone! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/

Cerebellar output shapes cortical preparatory activity during motor adaptation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

1/4 🌟 New Preprint! How do cortex and cerebellum team up for adaptive motor behavior? Dive into our latest study! 🧠👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #Neuroscience #MotorControl #BrainResearch #neurotwitter

New preprint post! We show that motor commands in the superior colliculus shift the internal representation of heading during REM sleep despite the immobility of sleeping mice. Thus, the brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep.🧵1/7 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

It's been hard to find the words, but here goes: I have been given the wonderful opportunity to start as an assistant professor CU Anschutz Medical Campus in July 2025. That also means opportunities for postdocs & grad students interested in models of motor circuits (simonsfoundation.org/people/laureli…).

🧑‍🔬Are you thinking of doing a PostDoc? We would LOVE to “CU” here!🎉 Come to PEAKS, our Postdoc Recruitment event taking place April 7-8, 2025! 🧪 Present your Thesis work 🧑‍🏫 Meet our Faculty 🏫 Campus Tours 🤝 Networking Opportunities 💬  Engage with the CU Anschutz Community

I'm delighted to announce the lab's first paper is finally out! Huge congrats to Eric and the team. rdcu.be/dRT7z

𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 & 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀 I’m co-organizing the SAF Life Sciences Conference on Nov 1-2, 2024, and we’re inviting abstract submissions for 10-minute flash talks. Deadline is Sep 15. Details below!