
Zidan Yang | 杨紫丹
@zidan_yang
Neuroscience PhD candidate @MPFNeuro. Previously @UCL @NeuralCompLab @unibirmingham @eLifeCommunity
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24-10-2015 13:12:19
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In our 100th podcast episode, we reminisce about our podcast journey and interview MPFI's Scientific Directors, David Fitzpatrick, Ryohei りょうへー, and Lin Tian, PhD about changes in neuroscience since episode 1 in 2016. Thanks to all who listened. Watch YT: ow.ly/emFj50UvoJQ


Excited to share my latest work with @[email protected] and Andrew Pruszynski. In this work, we ask whether motor sequence learning is motoric at all! Check out the 🧵version of the abstract: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n


SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES 👁️: Excited to share our new paper (which is out now!!) with Wenbo Tang, Annabella, Thokozile Nyasulu, Maddie Wolf, AntonioFR @azayhara : we discovered a novel sleep microstructure that promotes memory replay! nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵 1/12👇

Registration closes Wednesday for our Neurotechniques Course!! Register: mpfi.org/neuroimaging Theory and hands-on teaching by incredible team of neuro experts including Stefan W. Hell @DanielBAharoni Tristan Geiller Ahmed Abdelfattah tina kim Ann Kennedy Lin Tian, PhD & more!



After a ban on diversity programs and a communications freeze at the National Institutes of Health, neuroscientists are left worrying about the future of several funding programs. By Angie Voyles Askham and Claudia López Lloreda thetransmitter.org/funding/neuros…


Women are systematically under-cited in neuroscience. New tools, such as cleanBib, anneslist and others, exist to help researchers counter citation bias across genders and other demographic divides. By Anne Churchland Felicia Davatolhagh #WomeninScience bit.ly/3WYrolr

1/12 How do animals build an internal map of the world? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of neurons in mouse CA1 over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task. Nelson Spruston HHMI | Janelia, w/ co-1st author Johan Winnubst Video summary: youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4uV… Paper:

We are excited to share our work on dynamical constraints on neural population activity, published as a cover article in Nature Neuroscience. It was led by Emily Oby, Alan Degenhart, Erinn M Grigsby, with Aaron Batista and team. nature.com/articles/s4159… (1/n)


Excited to start a new lab at Florida State University this summer! FSU Department of Psychology FSU Neuroscience We’ll study how the brain enables generalization to support decision-making in novel situations. KiraLab.org We’re recruiting—please RT or share with anyone interested!