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Lots of fun! Thanks neurotechpub for getting us together for this chat

1/ Our new nature paper "Emergent reliability in sensory cortical coding and inter-area communication" lead by talented Sadegh Ebrahimi in another fun collab w/ Mark Schnitzer & team Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… Free: rdcu.be/cNU7Y News: neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/ambitious… 🧵->

The Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior and the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago are searching for Computational/Theoretical Neuroscientists. Visit: apply.interfolio.com/110683. EOE/Vet/Disability.

Check out our first pre-print from the multisite brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical trial for people with upper-limb paralysis at The University of Chicago and UPMC. 1/10 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Representational geometry: a limerick. More info here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Matt Kaufman Stefano Fusi @MattiaRigotti . .

We used BARseq in situ sequencing to identify genes in ***1.2 million neurons*** throughout the mouse brain We found that cortical areas with similar cell types are also interconnected. We call this “wire-by-similarity.” biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

AutoLFADS from the Pandarinath lab models neural population activity via a deep learning-based approach with automated hyperparameter optimization. Chethan Pandarinath M. Reza Keshtkaran Andrew Sedler Mehrdad Jazayeri Kathleen Cullen nature.com/articles/s4159…

🚨🚨🚨#TWEEPRINT TIME🚨🚨🚨 A big mystery in brain research is what are the neural mechanisms that drive individual differences in higher order cognitive processes. Here we present a new theoretical framework w/ Brody Lab Mikio Aoi David Sussillo Valerio Mante Jonathan Pillow 1/16

Recurrent Autoencoder for Discovering Imaged Calcium Latents (RADICaL), a deep learning framework for inference of single-trial neural population dynamics from calcium imaging New from Feng Zhu Chethan Pandarinath Matt Kaufman Andrea Giovannucci and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

Dan O'Shea has already written a thread on our key findings, so make sure to check that out. I’ll expand a bit on the theory and modeling here, and why we’re excited about it! x.com/djoshea/status…

The mission of the Cortical Bionics Research Group to build next-generation intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces that enable dexterous control of bionic hands by people with paralysis or amputation. The University of Chicago UPMC Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

Looking for a programmer with expertise in C++ and Matlab or Python to control robots and interface them directly with the nervous system. Join an existing team of fantastic programmers and engineers to push the boundaries of BCIs. If interested, DM me. #BCI Cortical Bionics Research Group

As most of us know, Krishna Shenoy passed away earlier this year. Aaron Batista , Chethan Pandarinath , and I wrote an obituary for Krishna, which just came out: doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… (1/2)

A remembrance of Krishna Shenoy from Mark Churchland and Paul Nuyujukian nature.com/articles/s4159…

At the University of Chicago Brain-Computer Interface lab we are looking for a full-time research technician to help us run our experiments with a prosthetic hand and arm that is bidirectionally connected to the brain. uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/C…

Happy to announce my previous work with Matt Kaufman has been revised, expanded for clarity, and re-submitted. If you found the last draft a bit hard to understand, or if you're interested in motor cortex activity during reaching, check out the update: biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

The Grossman Center has several openings for Postdoctoral Fellows in Comp Neuro. Come join us in Chicago! DM or email if you have any questions! University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute

Have a cool setup to monitor millions of neurons using calcium imaging but no tools to analyze them? Come check out my poster at #sfn23 on inference of neural population dynamics from slow-sampling rate calcium imaging without using Deconvolution! PSTR244.19 / XX53 (Mon 8-12pm)

Study from the Kaufman Lab (Matt Kaufman) adds a geometric spin to understanding how activity in the motor cortex corresponds to reaching movements. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/hidden-di…

Matthew Kaufman Matt Kaufman, assistant professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, has developed a new algorithm with myriad potential applications in robotics, aerospace, healthcare, and more. polsky.uchicago.edu/2024/08/30/neu…