Lisa Genzel (she/her)
@lgenzel.bsky.social
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in love with memory and sleep research, puts rats, mice and humans into complex, mulit-trial tasks
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franklandlab.bsky.social
New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

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fens.org
🇬🇷 #FKNE News from Crete!

🧠 On 19 September, the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence held its 2025 Scientific Symposium with the theme “Neuroscience through the Lens of Diversity: Levels, Methods, and Models.”

👉 https://loom.ly/DyVOs8I
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rhythmicspikes.bsky.social
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence
lgenzel.bsky.social
Apply! Great opportunity for young PIs.
fkne-scholars.bsky.social
The #FKNE Leadership Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Application deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
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apeyrache.bsky.social
Stoked to see this paper finally out!

It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks.

Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm.

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apeyrache.bsky.social
Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?
apeyrache.bsky.social
It's 2025, and there's apparently no female mouse atlas.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.
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timothyoleary.bsky.social
Finding correlates of the same signal in different brain areas is not evidence against specialisation, it is evidence for interconnection.

When I flush my toilet, the level in the tank and the flow rate in the supply pipe become perfectly correlated. Yet these toilet areas have distinct functions.
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eitans.bsky.social
New opinion piece!

@amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results

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rhythmicspikes.bsky.social
We are still accepting applications for the #postdoc opportunity in the lab 🕵‍♀️ 🧠

More details 👇
Postdoctoral position: lnkd.in/g4TkRxpM
Research directions: lnkd.in/eV2iMKGf
Our team and philosophy: lnkd.in/eh3nnNgq

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wamsleylab.bsky.social
#sleeppeeps:
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🚨New Paper🚨

I spend a lot of time trying to control what people dream about.

Usually, we are looking at dreams of recent memory.

In this new paper, for the first time, we caused people to dream about a specific REMOTE memory from their distant past.

#cogsci
#psychscisky
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Experimentally Inducing Dreams of Remote Emotional Memory
Abstract. People frequently dream of recent experiences, which may reflect the consolidation of memories in the sleeping brain. Many studies demonstrate th
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mariamaly.bsky.social
I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯

I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼

So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉
[Aly Lab Logo: schematic of brain in shades of blue with two cut-out seahorses facing each other]. Postdoctoral Position in the Aly Lab at UC Berkeley. We are recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on NSF-funded research examining competition and cooperation in memory-guided attention. The position will be supervised by Dr. Mariam Aly (https://www.alylab.org/) in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Candidates should have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or a related field, and expertise in studies of behavior as well as neuroimaging and/or eye tracking. This is a two-year position with a flexible start date. More details here: https://tinyurl.com/alylabpostdoc
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lgenzel.bsky.social
The lab may be suffering form a slight hexagon and rat obsession.....
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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤

After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com

**A dream EEG and mentation database**
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Illustration from Ana Yael
https://www.anayael.com/
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Disentangling the influences of pre- and postnatal periods on human cortical microstructure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669812v1
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Sleep deprivation selectively reactivates hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.665413v1
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annaschapiro.bsky.social
Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!
neurozz.bsky.social
Excited to share a new preprint w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social! Why are there gradients of plasticity and sparsity along the neocortex–hippocampus hierarchy? We show that brain-like organization of these properties emerges in ANNs that meta-learn layer-wise plasticity and sparsity. bit.ly/4kB1yg5
A gradient of complementary learning systems emerges through meta-learning
Long-term learning and memory in the primate brain rely on a series of hierarchically organized subsystems extending from early sensory neocortical areas to the hippocampus. The components differ in t...
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🗣️ Opening Plenary Lecture | Guillermina López-Bendito

Join us on 4 July 2026 as Prof. Guillermina López-Bendito opens next year's #FENSForum! 🧠

🔗 Meet all the #FENS2026 speakers: https://loom.ly/Q_m95o8

#FENS #NeuroscienceConference
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vikaassohal.bsky.social
New work! Learning is assumed to involve synaptic plasticity, but which specific synapses change to enable higher order cognitive functions? We actually find that cognitive flexibility involves potentiation of long-range GABAergic synapses from prefrontal PV neurons: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Synaptic plasticity of prefrontal long-range inhibition regulates cognitive flexibility
While glutamatergic synaptic plasticity is believed to be a fundamental mechanism mediating learning, the behavioral significance of plasticity at cortical GABAergic synapses remains less well underst...
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