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Emre Yaksi

@emreyaksi.bsky.social

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Professor in neuroscience at https://www.ntnu.edu/kavli . To learn about our labs work please visit https://yaksilab.com

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Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 11d

A wonderful Istanbul evening on Bosphorus with colleagues to celebrate science

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 13d

Such an elegant work, congrats to the entire team …

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May-Britt Moser @m-bmoser.bsky.social · 13d

So proud🤩: Beautiful work by @clykken.bsky.social 💃🏻 et al: finally we understand how the hippocampus can express multiple maps even though grid cell inputs are universal metrics.
E.g. hippocampal global remapping was induced when different grid modules anchored independently to environments. See 👇🏽

clykken.bsky.social @clykken.bsky.social · 13d

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How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades!
Read it here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi @nathaliejuya.bsky.social · 15d

Very special encounter today at Prague museum! It was incredible to see the skeleton of two of the first humanoids Lucy and Selam from 3.2 millions years ago. I highly recommend to anyone visiting Prague! @emreyaksi.bsky.social

The original fossils of human ancestors Lucy & Selam welcome you to the new exhibition People and Their Ancestors - National museum

Exclusively on display from Ethiopia – the land of origin

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 18d

Those big and small spikes were certainly differently regulated in the neuromodulatory cells I patched . But again, I always thought I was listening to other

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 19d

Super cool Anna… I remember patching some giant GnRH+ neurons in the olfactory bulb with different spike sizes . I always thought those smaller spikes were form a gap junction coupled neuron. But perhaps they were from a different AİS … btw what marker is used to label AİS here ?

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 21d

thank you so much Fernando.. I truly appreciate the support.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks …

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Takes time to format, but worth it :)

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Finally, big thanks to @kavlintnu.bsky.social , and The Research Council of Norway for funding support that made it possible to explore the evolution of cortical algorithms in our tiny fish.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Special thanks to Koichi Kawakami for sharing key transgenic lines, and to all our colleagues interested in cortical evolution, your insights and feedback were invaluable.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Our findings provide a comparative systems neuroscience perspective, showing how zebrafish can help us study thalamocortical computations in species with less accessible brains.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Inside the pallium, we found distinct computational layers, organized both topographically and hierarchically. Sensory processing complexity increases along the posterior-anterior axis, echoing organizational hierarchies seen in the mammalian cortex.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

We show that the preglomerular nucleus (PG), architecturally similar to the higher-order thalamus in mammals and nucleus rotundus in birds/reptiles, is the main sensory input hub to the zebrafish pallium.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Thalamic inputs are key to functional regionalization in the mammalian cortex.
But in zebrafish?
We know surprisingly little about how their pallium receives and processes sensory input, aside from olfaction.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

You might be thinking:
“Wait… cortex in fish??”
Well, zebrafish have a pallium, a brain region shared by all vertebrates that gave rise to the mammalian cortex over evolution.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · 22d

Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information:
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Hierarchical processing of sensory information across topographically organized thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain

Thalamocortical projections contribute to the spatial organization and functional hierarchies of the mammalian cortex. Primary sensory cortices receive topographically segregated information from firs...

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you @pirtahotulainen.bsky.social for visiting us at Kavli Institute for Sytems Neuroscience and sharing your wonderful science, and making good memories ❤

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · Aug 23

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco @gocastelobranco.bsky.social · Aug 23

Deadline (September 2) approaching! Join us and start your lab at @ki.se!

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco @gocastelobranco.bsky.social · Jun 25

The call just opened!

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

You can apply to several departments simultaneously, check out which depts better fit your profile! Here is the call for our Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Elanur Yilmaz @elanuryilmaz.bsky.social · Aug 21

Academic growth is best understood not as a linear or exponential curve, but as a process of dispersal—spreading ideas, people, and collaborations outward into new domains.
#notetoself it’s dispersal, should be dispersal.

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Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi @nathaliejuya.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚩Publication Alert🚩"Advection vs. Diffusion in Brain Ventricular Transport" by Herlyng at al in collaboration with @utropstegn.bsky.social at @simularesearch.bsky.social and Jebsen Centre for Brain Fluid Research is now published in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS! 🧠💧

Advection versus diffusion in brain ventricular transport - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is integral to brain function. CSF provides mechanical support for the brain and helps distribute nutrients, neurotransmitters and metabolites throughout the central nervous ...

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Ciarán Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · Aug 8

Excellent paper from @emreyaksi.bsky.social @manumameli.bsky.social labs. So much gold in the supplementary figures!

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Calcium dynamics in habenular astrocytes regulate active coping within behavioral transitions - Communications Biology

Tracking of astrocytes dynamics in habenula reveals their contribution to behavioral transitions across species.

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you Ciaran

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you Cedric

Emre Yaksi @emreyaksi.bsky.social · Aug 6

And thanks for your feedback during the preprint …