We have an open R01-funded postdoc position to study cortical circuit mechanisms of computation and perception in behaving mice using volumetric 2P imaging and optical perturbation approaches like multiphoton ablation and 2P optogenetics. Contact [email protected]. Please RT :)

New preprint from PhD student Tina Voelcker. Tina asked how sensory representations change from barrel cortex L4 up to L2 during active somatosensation by imaging mice performing a two-whisker object localization task. 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our last episode of the year is going to be our first mailbag episode! Comment or DM us any questions you have for the pod, and we’ll try to get through as much as we can. It can be about anime, other media, podcasting, our lives, anything is fair game!

Sensory cortical dynamics during optical microstimulation training biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

What happens when you create an artificial sensory percept? MD/PhD student Ravi Pancholi (Ravi Pancholi) decided to find out. (1/13) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interested in the neural basis of perception? We have a funded postdoc position looking at how sensory cortical circuits drive perception, using both natural and synthetic stimuli in the mouse whisker cortex. Details at: peronlab.org. Contact: [email protected].

Excited to share our bioRxiv out of the Liam Holt! Condensation of LINE-1 is required for retrotransposition biorxiv.org/content/10.110… See this Tweetorial for the bottom line(-1)! 1/5

New preprint, from Lauren Ryan. Lauren developed a micro-lesion approach that allows for columnar-scale cortical lesions. She used this to ask which types of single whisker behaviors depend on individual barrel columns: discrimination, not detection. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Microstimulation of sensory cortex engages natural sensory representations biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Really happy to see this out in the world!Kind of sad that Simon Peron deleted all my great memes tho…here’s one from the director’s cut

Congrats Lauren Ryan on her paper showing that highly focal laser-based barrel-scale lesions in vS1 permanently degrade vibrissal object localization task performance. eneuro.org/content/9/6/EN…

It’s officially our first episode’s two year anniversary! 🎉 To celebrate, we’re launching our very own Discord server! Come hang out with us and chat about the podcast, anime, and anything else that’s on your mind ⤵️ discord.gg/WkvfrsnmR6

Friends, we need your help. An Wu, a postdoc from UCSD is missing post-Cosyne. We're trying to locate her. We're worried she may have been staying at a building that had a bad fire this week. If you have any information about where An was staying or last seen please contact me.

So happy to see my first, first-author paper finally published! Thank you to everyone who helped along the way and I’m super excited to see what the community thinks!

Huge congrats to Ravi Pancholi for a successful Ph. D. defense today. You will be very much missed! Can't wait to see what you do in the years ahead.

Our paper on planning depth in human gameplay is out now in nature! It‘s been a huge privilege to collaborate on this with basvanopheusden and Wei Ji Ma, as this project has been the foundation for the rest of my PhD work nature.com/articles/s4158…

1/ Across cortical areas, subregions that process the same part of sensory space are often strongly connected. What do these connections do? Lauren Ryan examines how these connections shape whisker touch response in S1 and S2. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The second half of my dissertation work is out now! Thanks so much to Simon and the entire Simon Peron for their help on a story about sensory stimulation, neural stability, and learning that’s been years in the making!

How does the whisker system use touch information to decide on appropriate motor actions? Ravi Pancholi shows that a sparse population of multiwhisker responsive neurons in both vS1 and vM1 act to bridge touch-licking and touch-whisking representations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled to have matched MGH Neurosurgery and can’t wait to be there with so many amazing other people for the next stage of my career!