Taking a break from NCM preparations to peek at the eclipse! #Eclipse2024

We hope you've been enjoying the first day of #NCMDub24 sessions as much as we have! Come check out our lab members' work over the course of the week! Tomorrow - Olivia Leavitt Brown at poster 2-F-82 Friday - Robyn Mildren at poster 4-F-74 and a talk by Oli 🐳 - 🐵🧠🔧

It was fantastic seeing everyone and sharing our science at #NCMDub24! We're already looking forward to Panama City!

Congratulations to Olivia Leavitt Brown and Luke for tying the knot!

Congratulations to Chenhao Bao who was yesterday awarded his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering!

Congratulations to Sergio Sánchez on being awarded his Master of Science in Engineering!

How does the cerebellum distinguish between sensory feedback arising from our own motor actions versus unexpected external perturbations? In our recent paper, we unravel the intricate details of the processes that unfold in the anterior cerebellar vermis nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are seeking a postdoctoral research fellow interested in studying the mechanisms underlying predictive coding of self-motion in the cerebellum and cortex! This project will involve neurophysiological and behavioral analyses, and computational approaches thecullenlab.org/opportunities/

How do #ParisOlympics gymnasts maintain their balance during routines? We asked #HopkinsBME professor Kathleen Cullen TheCullenLab, who studies balance as an essential role of the brain’s vestibular system. Follow this thread to learn more. Johns Hopkins Engineering Johns Hopkins Medicine

"How Olympians--- and the rest of us-- stay balanced and upright" ft. Dr. Cullen 🤸‍♀️🥇 washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…

Congratulations to Ruihan Wei Ran Wei for being awarded a @Kavli NDI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship! Her work on context-dependent neural activity during locomotion helps us understand how the brain accomodates different environments as we move through the world.

Circling is observed in many mouse vestibular disorder models but is often left unquantified. Our paper, led by Oliver Stanley @oliwhail, introduces a tool leveraging DeepLabCut 🦄 to automatically identify circling and facilitate behavioral quantification. nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are excited to welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Mingyu Hu! Mingyu earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is interested in brain-machine interfaces, and how the brain processes self-motion to improve motor control.

Lab dinner at Paulie G's. Pizza is one way to get the whole crew together!

The deadline to submit oral presentations for Neural Control of Movement is fast approaching! Submit by Dec. 2nd and join us in Panama this spring 😎 ncm-society.org/2025-meeting/

Happy holidays from the Cullen Lab!

Current vestibular prostheses improve reflexes and balance, but fall short of complete restoration. Our new review, led by grad students Pum and Olivia (Olivia Leavitt Brown), discusses these advances and advocates for future neuroscience-informed development. elifesciences.org/articles/99516

Both vestibular and proprioceptive input are crucial for generating an estimate of body motion and orientation. In her new paper, postdoc Robyn Mildren reveals how these inputs are combined to enhance self-motion encoding in the posterior cerebellum. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…