Rune W. Berg
@runewberg.bsky.social
Neuroscientist in Copenhagen, Dept. of Neuroscience | PI at Berg Lab CPH | Motor control | Networks | Spinal Cord | PhD from UC San Diego
Lab page: https://berg-lab.net/
President of Danish Society for Neuroscience ( https://dsfn.dk/ )
Lab page: https://berg-lab.net/
President of Danish Society for Neuroscience ( https://dsfn.dk/ )
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New preprint:
Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping
Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping
Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Presenting this work on MONDAY afternoon, board V9
See you there?
"Neural topologies that orchestrates locomotion"
See you there?
"Neural topologies that orchestrates locomotion"
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Presenting this work on MONDAY afternoon, board V9
See you there?
"Neural topologies that orchestrates locomotion"
See you there?
"Neural topologies that orchestrates locomotion"
New preprint:
Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping
Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping
Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New preprint:
Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping
Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping
Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Wonderful to see this important paper come out yesterday- Congrats Lahiru, Nick, and Chethan @chethanp.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spinal interneuron population dynamics underlying flexible pattern generation - Nature Communications
The spinal interneuron population dynamics underlying flexible pattern generation remain not fully understood. Here, the authors present that spinal interneuron state space trajectories capture fine-g...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Wonderful to see this important paper come out yesterday- Congrats Lahiru, Nick, and Chethan @chethanp.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New review on neural manifold and population activity in the brain-
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
New review on neural manifold and population activity in the brain-
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Computational Neuroscience Workshop announcement:
August 11-14, 2025
Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK
Registration is open!
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...
August 11-14, 2025
Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK
Registration is open!
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...
Computational Neuroscience – NAD Workshop – Neuroscience Academy Denmark
Join an immersive four-day workshop bringing together early-career researchers and leading experts in computational neuroscience.
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk
May 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Computational Neuroscience Workshop announcement:
August 11-14, 2025
Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK
Registration is open!
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...
August 11-14, 2025
Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK
Registration is open!
neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...
Congrats Jaspreet! This is an excellent and interesting paper.
Our paper on “Pedunculopontine-stimulation obstructs hippocampal theta rhythm and halts movement” is finally out!! Please check out!! Congrats to all the coauthors @SalifKomi, @GraceHouser, @Oksana, @Madelaine and our supervisor @runewberg.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pedunculopontine-stimulation obstructs hippocampal theta rhythm and halts movement - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Pedunculopontine-stimulation obstructs hippocampal theta rhythm and halts movement
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May 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Congrats Jaspreet! This is an excellent and interesting paper.
Animal roles in medical discoveries 🙌
May 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Animal roles in medical discoveries 🙌
Registration deadline approaching for:
Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species
Organizers Salil Bidaye, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne Graziana Gatto, University of Cologne Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet Julie
www.janelia.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Registration deadline approaching for:
Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Melanie Mitchell is coming to town! Professor at the Santa Fe institute and author of numerous books on AI and complexity science. Can't miss this opportunity:
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The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence | Science and Cocktails
Science and Cocktails platform of science events around the globe, lecture recordings, interviews and podcast series.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Melanie Mitchell is coming to town! Professor at the Santa Fe institute and author of numerous books on AI and complexity science. Can't miss this opportunity:
www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/co...
www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/co...
In case you missed it, here is an AI-generated Podcast of our paper in Nature from 2022, "Movement is governed by rotational neural dynamics in spinal motor networks" - I must say the AI algorithm is doing an excellent job.
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Linden et al 2022 -
This is an AI-generated podcast of the article by Linden et al. in Nature 2022 -
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April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
In case you missed it, here is an AI-generated Podcast of our paper in Nature from 2022, "Movement is governed by rotational neural dynamics in spinal motor networks" - I must say the AI algorithm is doing an excellent job.
soundcloud.com/berglabcph/l...
soundcloud.com/berglabcph/l...
Too busy to read our preprint? Here's an AI-generated podcast of our recent new theory of the neural mechanism of locomotion in mammals:
on.soundcloud.com/FQ56dadQAaTZ...
on.soundcloud.com/FQ56dadQAaTZ...
Podcast of Komi et al 2025:
This is an AI generated Podcast of the preprint on
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April 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Too busy to read our preprint? Here's an AI-generated podcast of our recent new theory of the neural mechanism of locomotion in mammals:
on.soundcloud.com/FQ56dadQAaTZ...
on.soundcloud.com/FQ56dadQAaTZ...
Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine- movie associated with the Brain prize 2024 with interesting discussion and perspectives:
youtu.be/K25T-I3B5Nc?...
youtu.be/K25T-I3B5Nc?...
Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine
YouTube video by BrainPrize
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March 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine- movie associated with the Brain prize 2024 with interesting discussion and perspectives:
youtu.be/K25T-I3B5Nc?...
youtu.be/K25T-I3B5Nc?...
Reposted by Rune W. Berg
Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species
Organizers Salil Bidaye, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne Graziana Gatto, University of Cologne Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet Julie
www.janelia.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Registration is open for the FENS Brain Conference: Frontiers of Theoretical Neuroscience - June 3-6, Denmark
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www.fens.org/news-activit...
Brain Conference October 2023
This Brain Conference will reveal early insights into brain representations can be learnt from memories and even built directly from the language
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March 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Registration is open for the FENS Brain Conference: Frontiers of Theoretical Neuroscience - June 3-6, Denmark
www.fens.org/news-activit...
www.fens.org/news-activit...
Should domain experts evaluate a paper/grant that has paradigm-challenging ideas? Yamamoto says never because they are unlikely to do it objectively since it threatens their own paradigms. Instead, use generalist reviewers. Interesting interview:
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail - Night Science
Keith Yamamoto, professor and science policy leader at UCSF, discusses with us how modern science became trapped in a system that discourages creative risk-taking. Keith contrasts academia's fear of f...
nightscience.buzzsprout.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Should domain experts evaluate a paper/grant that has paradigm-challenging ideas? Yamamoto says never because they are unlikely to do it objectively since it threatens their own paradigms. Instead, use generalist reviewers. Interesting interview:
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
Science without theory is not science. Here is a common misunderstanding ( ):
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February 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Science without theory is not science. Here is a common misunderstanding ( ):
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Registration and abstract submission is open for the Oslo meeting - June 16-19, 2025. Everyone is welcome from anywhere in the world!
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FENS Regional Meeting 2025
Welcome to the FENS Regional Meeting 2025 — in Oslo, Norway.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Registration and abstract submission is open for the Oslo meeting - June 16-19, 2025. Everyone is welcome from anywhere in the world!
frm2025oslo.no
frm2025oslo.no
Oh gees. Here we go. www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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January 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Oh gees. Here we go. www.science.org/content/arti...
FENS Regional Meeting 2025: Oslo, Norway, 16-19 June 2025.
Submit Your Abstract for #FRM2025 by 28 February 2025!
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Submit Your Abstract for #FRM2025 by 28 February 2025!
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FENS Regional Meeting 2025 Call for Abstracts - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Submit Your Abstract for #FRM2025 by 28 February 2025! Are you ready to share your neuroscience research with an international audience? The FENS Regional Meeting (FRM) 2025 invites neuroscientists…
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January 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
FENS Regional Meeting 2025: Oslo, Norway, 16-19 June 2025.
Submit Your Abstract for #FRM2025 by 28 February 2025!
www.fens.org/news-activit...
Submit Your Abstract for #FRM2025 by 28 February 2025!
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Reposted by Rune W. Berg
Our new preprint on how excitatory V2a and inhibitory V1 and V2b neurons cooperate to drive scratching rhythm, with a new neuromechanical model showing how CPG perturbations affect rhythm and phase of motoneuron firing and frequency of joint oscillations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation
Rhythmic motor behaviors are generated by neural networks termed central pattern generators (CPGs). Although locomotor CPGs have been extensively characterized, it remains unknown how the neuronal pop...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Our new preprint on how excitatory V2a and inhibitory V1 and V2b neurons cooperate to drive scratching rhythm, with a new neuromechanical model showing how CPG perturbations affect rhythm and phase of motoneuron firing and frequency of joint oscillations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Walking is an essential part of life- yet we do not know how the nervous system generates the underlying neural programs.
Please find our sneak-peek preprint on neural generation of locomotion in the mouse:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pan-neuronal one-spot tracks in lumbar cord w clearing & LSM
Please find our sneak-peek preprint on neural generation of locomotion in the mouse:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pan-neuronal one-spot tracks in lumbar cord w clearing & LSM
December 25, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Walking is an essential part of life- yet we do not know how the nervous system generates the underlying neural programs.
Please find our sneak-peek preprint on neural generation of locomotion in the mouse:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pan-neuronal one-spot tracks in lumbar cord w clearing & LSM
Please find our sneak-peek preprint on neural generation of locomotion in the mouse:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pan-neuronal one-spot tracks in lumbar cord w clearing & LSM
New version of our preprint available. The supplementary information is also available.
"Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion
Generation of locomotion is a fundamental function of the spinal cord, yet the underlying principles remain unclear. In particular, the relationship between neuronal cell types, networks and functions...
www.biorxiv.org
December 21, 2024 at 10:10 AM
New version of our preprint available. The supplementary information is also available.
"Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Euler's formula and complex numbers nicely explained in this youtube video. Enjoy!
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youtu.be/f8CXG7dS-D0?...
The most beautiful equation in math, explained visually [Euler’s Formula]
YouTube video by Welch Labs
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December 17, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Euler's formula and complex numbers nicely explained in this youtube video. Enjoy!
youtu.be/f8CXG7dS-D0?...
youtu.be/f8CXG7dS-D0?...