BeatoLab
@beatolab.bsky.social
73 followers 82 following 9 posts
Neuroscience, control of movement, motoneuron physiology and all that is spinal cord related
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
beatolab.bsky.social
An absolutely lovely paper, if I may say so... Joint effort from @tuanbuilab.bsky.social, Turgay Akay, and the Beatostone lab, aka Rob Brownstone's lab and mine
remironzano.bsky.social
Do comparator modules exist within spinal circuits? Here, we show that spinal dI3 neurons integrate multimodal sensory feedback, receive direct efference copy from Renshaw cells, and mediate corrections of ongoing movements. Thank you so much to everyone involved!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evidence of spinal cord comparator modules for rapid corrections of movements
Successful movement requires continuous adjustments in response to changes in internal and external environments. To do so, neural circuits continuously compare efference copies of motor commands with sensory input to respond to sensory prediction errors. Some responses need to be very fast and, for limbs, likely occur in as yet undefined spinal cord circuits. Here, we describe spinal circuits involving dI3 neurons, showing that they receive multimodal sensory inputs and direct efferent copies from both Renshaw cells and motor neurons. We further show that they form connections to motor pools, including diverging connections to antagonist motor nuclei. Reducing dI3 neuronal activity diminished stumbling responses, as did disrupting Renshaw cell circuits, providing evidence for a comparator role of dI3 neurons for online corrections. Together, our findings reveal a pivotal role for dI3 neurons functioning as comparators of internal predictions and external sensory feedback to mediate rapid corrections of ongoing movements. ### Competing Interest Statement Robert M. Brownstone is a co-founder and director of Sania Therapeutics Inc. Wellcome Trust, https://ror.org/029chgv08, 221610/Z/20/Z, 227433/Z/23/Z, 225674/Z/22/Z Royal Society, NIF\R1\192316 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, https://ror.org/01gavpb45, PJT 180556, PJT 162357 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BB/S005943/1
www.biorxiv.org
beatolab.bsky.social
Great great news! Congratulations
beatolab.bsky.social
Thanks Ale, please add me as well!
beatolab.bsky.social
Looking forward to imposing it to everyone in my lab!
scimemia.bsky.social
A British @ianduguid.bsky.social, a French @nwanaverbecq.bsky.social and an Italian @scimemia.bsky.social are stranded on a desert island...what do they do? They work on an ephys textbook! www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
Reposted by BeatoLab
skochlab.bsky.social
New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, @liamebrowne.bsky.social and Rob Brownstone.
biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Ethologically relevant behavioural assay for investigating reach and grasp kinematics during whole-body motor control in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647225v1
beatolab.bsky.social
Congratulations Boris and Brandon!
einsteinberlin.bsky.social
🥇 The €200K Institutional Award goes to @pubpeer.com, a community platform for rapid post-publication peer review to improve scientific publications. 19% of global retractions have been the subject of prior discussions on PubPeer since its launch in 2012. Congratulations! 🥳
Reposted by BeatoLab
einsteinberlin.bsky.social
📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied
www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...
beatolab.bsky.social
Please add me as well, thanks!
Reposted by BeatoLab
sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social
RA positions with potential PhD continuation are now open! We're seeking two candidates with slice patch clamp or programming skills for the projects outlined in the advert: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50040/
Apply by 21 February!
sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social
📣 Opportunity Alert! We have two PhD positions in our lab at Cambridge University starting in Autumn 2025. Exceptional candidates may join earlier as RAs and receive PhD funding if scholarship applications are unsuccessful (RA advert coming soon!).
Details here: www.keshavarzilab.com/blog/phd-pos...
PDN
Reposted by BeatoLab
brandonstell.bsky.social
Only one week left to apply to the Paris School for Neuroscience Techniques!
parisneuro.ovh
beatolab.bsky.social
Just migrated from 'that place' to this one, hoping to have the same interactions I used to have there