📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026!

We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues.

More details coming soon👇🏽
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I'm delighted to be in Verona for this year's Spring Hippocampal Research Conference. So many inspiring talks and exciting #Neuroscience research being done! I have some pretty cool colleagues 🧠 #Neuroskyence

@tjryan.bsky.social, @okaysteve.bsky.social, @gisellavetere.bsky.social

Fun times at #SOBP2025 with @gisellavetere.bsky.social @franklandlab.bsky.social Sheena Josselyn, Satoshi Kida, and Jessie Muir

Then @gisellavetere.bsky.social gave us a nice summary of the current state-of-the-art on how memory engrams control behavior

Our new preprint on experience dependent adaptation of the visual looming response instinct.

Representing the PhD work of Paul Conway at @tcddublin.bsky.social, and combined efforts of Ryan Lab investigators - in collaboration with @gisellavetere.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/3 How does visual input affect the heading direction (HD) network?

In our latest lab preprint, Ryosuke presents "visual landmarks" to larval zebrafish and shows that the HD network tethers to the visual environment. The experiments are again inspired by the beautiful recent work in Drosophila.

An amazing collaboration to be a part of: We helped @gisellavetere.bsky.social & @clementpouget.bsky.social simultaneously deliver 3 AAV constructs to Ca1 neurons.

What they then acheived blew me away - the tagging of cells recruited in memory encoding with a temporal resolution of mere seconds!

We also uncovered fascinating findings on neuronal drift, acquisition vs recall engrams differences, pre-allocation, optogenetic manipulation vs natural recall and many more.
Exciting discussions await!

Do you think you’ve conquered the enigma of the memory engram? News flash: You’re only scratching the surface. :)
In our latest work (led by @Clement), we dissected the engram to uncover what information is processed during encoding and becomes the essence of the recalled memory.

New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9)

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

A study in Nature Neuroscience identifies a prefrontal–pontomedullary pathway that slows breathing and reduces anxiety in mice. The findings explain a circuit basis for top-down control of breathing, which can influence emotional states. �Ÿ”’ https://go.nature.com/3CUtPy3

Join us!
Postdoc position for a Data Scientist in Neuroscience

Dive into multidimensional datasets from cutting-edge research on human behavior, stress & motivation
@EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

🔗 Check it out at @FENSorg website: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

#Postdoc #DataScience #Neuroscience

Our resident octopus envelops all eight of its legs around a finger coral and turns itself white as a ghost while seeking a crabby treat 🐙👻🪸🦀 #octopus #colorchange #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #octopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

How the brain coordinates the activity of its many muscles to achieve successful control remains an enigma. www.cell.com/issue/S0896-...