Gaia Bianchini
@gaiabianchini.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist | PhD at the Francis Crick Institute (Flor Iacaruso Lab) | crick.ac.uk
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Amazing work, go check it out!! 🙌🙌
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My PhD project is out as a preprint!
We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🙌 @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social, @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk
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Huge thanks to @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social for making this possible! Your support and insights were truly invaluable!
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There’s a lot more to dig into—check out our work!
Keen to hear your thoughts, so feel free to reach out with questions.
Huge thanks to the @crick.ac.uk team for all their support!
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Decoding of AV timing was most precise in colliculus regions encoding the visual periphery. This may enhance responses to unattended stimuli - crucial function for survival.
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We tested how nonlinear integration affects sensory encoding by comparing real vs. synthetic responses (where AV signals were linearly added). The result? Nonlinear integration preserves precise AV timing, while linear addition severely reduces decoding accuracy.
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We presented visual and auditory stimuli at different time intervals to mice while recording superior colliculus activity. We found diverse multisensory neurons, many integrating AV signals nonlinearly based on timing—these are multisensory delay-tuned neurons.
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Exciting news! My PhD work with @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social is now online as a preprint!
We explored how the timing between visual and auditory stimuli shapes multisensory interactions. Check it out!
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Functional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637674v1