Antje Kilias
@antjekilias.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, PostDoc in the Bartos Lab
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juliaveit.bsky.social
Happy to share that I just started a W2 professorship at the University of Bremen! Yay tenure! While I already start teaching now, the lab will stay in Freiburg until May while we get things ready. Super excited about this new chapter! We’re also hiring! Please get in touch if you’re interested!
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fabmusacchio.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #Neurons can communicate via a hidden network of #nanotubes. Chang et al. (2025) show dendritic nanotubes as #actin-based conduits transferring Ca²⁺ + cargo, rising before plaque deposition in 🐁 #cortex. This overlooked pathway may expand views of neuronal communication beyond #synapses.
Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network
Intercellular nanotubular networks mediate material exchange, but their existence in neurons remains to be explored in detail. We identified long, thin dendritic filopodia forming direct dendrite–dend...
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borismontreal.bsky.social
🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
antjekilias.bsky.social
Many thanks to @sophiekb.bsky.social, @silviaviansilva.bsky.social and Maike Busson-Spielberger for organizing and @mbartos.bsky.social for enabling such a great meeting. This was a lot of fun and inspiring to meet all these power women.
in-code.bsky.social
Our IN-CODE Female Scientist Retreat gathered neuroscientists for workshops, talks and discussions at the Kloster Frauenberg in Fulda & its serene garden.
We thank our speakers Silvia Viana da Silva, Silvana Valtcheva, Marlene Bartos, SeongHee Cho, & Rahel Ehret for sharing knowledge and inspiration
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jeromeepsztein.bsky.social
Happy to share our new paper with Mathilde Nordlund and Julie Koenig out @currentbiology.bsky.social. We used virtual reality in mice to study hippocampal distance coding. Our results suggest a primary contribution of grid cells to distance over cue-dependent place cell coding.
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Color-coded mean firing rate maps of place fields detected in the forth trials (left, sorted by the location of place fields peak) and back trials (right, sorted according to firing order in the forth trials) of all bidirectional cells recorded in the track with objects (top) or without objects (bottom). The color represents the intensity of the mean firing rate in a given bin normalized to the maximum mean firing rate (peak rate) in each direction. Note that in the CP condition, the mean firing map in one direction is the mirror image of the mean firing map in the other direction, indicating strong distance coding.
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tristanshuman.bsky.social
Check out new work from our lab! We developed a new way to directly control the precise timing of interneurons during behavior and found that theta phase locking is a causal mediator of seizure susceptibility in both healthy and epileptic mice.
zoechristensonwick.bsky.social
🚨New preprint alert🚨
We used closed-loop optogenetics to causally test the importance of inhibitory spike timing in network function and found that manipulating PV+ cell theta phase locking in the dentate gyrus can shift seizure susceptibility (both ways!)
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Voltage Imaging of CA1 Pyramidal Cells and SST+ Interneurons Reveals Stability and Plasticity Mechanisms of Spatial Firing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671230v1
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cantinortiz.bsky.social
The main project from my PhD, in collaboration with Manuela Allegra and @schlab.bsky.social is now available as a preprint! We wondered how the hippocampus and the visual cortex may differ in the way they refine sensory inputs into internal representations
Task engagement differentially drives hippocampal and neocortical neural codes
Sensory inputs are progressively transformed into internal representations of the environment along the cortical hierarchy. How does the behavioral relevance of these inputs affect this encoding? Usin...
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antjekilias.bsky.social
Congratulations Jake et al! Looks very interesting.
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aforli89.bsky.social
Our study is out in Nature!
Using wireless Neuropixels we recorded hippocampal activity in freely flying bats and uncovered replay and theta(less) sweeps, revealing striking differences from classic rodent models.

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats - Nature
Nature - Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats
www.nature.com
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hannahpayne.bsky.social
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!

When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️

The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar

bit.ly/3HvWSum
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bwjones.bsky.social
Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit.

You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists.

Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.
tedpavlic.bsky.social
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
www.richmondscientific.com
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I'm pleased to share our new work, “Spatio-temporal organization of network activity patterns in the hippocampus”, out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social !
With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding.

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simonhammann.bsky.social
Oh wow. Starting grant 0-10 years post PhD from 2027, Consolidator 5-15
erc.europa.eu
Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?

From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:

• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)

More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
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antjekilias.bsky.social
Thanks a lot. Too bad you couldn't make it.
antjekilias.bsky.social
Looking forward to an exciting Spring Hippocampal Research Conference in Verona with @mbartos.bsky.social @olechsylte.bsky.social @federicotorelli.bsky.social and @ute-fr.bsky.social
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Mice discriminate odour source distance via sub-sniff temporal features of odour plumes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653752v1