To understand how the brain works, the brain must be working. We study active touch in a naive yet earnest struggle to solve the brain.
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~30 years of research in non-behaving animals argue that bilateral touch integration likely occurs downstream of primary somatosensory cortex. We reveal the state- and task-dependent logic that unlocks communication between S1s through the corpus callosum. nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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20 Oct 2025
My colleagues at Science published their work on a photovoltaic device for vision restoration in NEJM today
The device, "PRIMA", has made it possible for some legally blind patients to do things like read and play the crossword again
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5 Oct 2025
The 38th Barrels Meeting
November 13–14, 2025
(just before #SfN)
UC San Diego
Registrants may submit requests for short talks and poster presentations.
Invited speaker list and registration link in replies ⬇️
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13 May 2025
The Oldenburg lab is looking for a postdoc! If you want to use holographic optogenetics to answer questions about neural codes let me know. We like shooting lasers and thinking about movement.
oldenburglab.com/positions/
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16 May 2025
Bilateral integration in somatosensory cortex is controlled by behavioral relevance
@LabPluta @HayagreevKeri @Hyein_Park_
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15 May 2025
Very excited to share my PhD project, out today in Neuron! Check out the thread below for my best attempt at a high-level summary.
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How is V1 activity read-out to determine the presence of a visual stimulus? Our study using targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation in a detection task found that mice use a simple unweighted read-out strategy (1/6) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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22 Apr 2025
New paper!
Cognitive independence and interactions between cerebral hemispheres
doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsych…
#neuroscience
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10 Apr 2025
Neurons just keep mixing their selectivity.
Whisking and locomotion are jointly represented in superior colliculus neurons
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Super excited to share this new preprint, a project since I was with @ProfJaredMedina and in collaboration with @JeffMYau, @cogscimon, and H. Branch Coslett. We studied motor and somatosensory reorganization in two cases in which left S1 was severely damaged but M1 was intact.
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4 Mar 2025
We must learn to showcase the practical significance of basic research, demonstrating how seemingly arcane investigations yield transformative applications, writes @tonyzador.
thetransmitter.org/outreach/…
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4 Mar 2025
I am thrilled to share my postdoc work from the Soohyun Lee Lab, nature.com/articles/s41586-0…. Huge thanks to the awesome PI Soohyun Lee and collaborators Yuan Zhao, Ka Chun Lam, @fpereira, and Charles R Gerfen.
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1 Mar 2025
This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine. It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine. I know foreign policy is not for the faint of heart, but right now, I am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to democracy and U.S. values around the world.
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26 Feb 2025
NIH study sections are being canceled or postponed at the last minute, wasting countless hours of scientists' time and delaying critical research funding. This instability threatens scientific progress and patient care. @NIH needs to fix this - fast. #NIHStudySection
@theNCI @nih_nhlbi @NIHFunding @NIHDirector
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26 Feb 2025
I'm quoted in this article on how NIH is still blocked from funding new grants.
This sabotage makes no sense. Nearly every medicine or treatment you've ever received has roots in NIH-funded research, and every $1 of NIH spending generates $2.46 in returns.
wbur.org/news/2025/02/24/can…
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18 Feb 2025
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham
thetransmitter.org/funding/f…
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17 Feb 2025
As we speak, scientisists across the country (including myself) are trying to to take care of simple administrative tasks related to the grants that we have recieved from the National Institutes of Health... 1/n
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8 Feb 2025
Science is alchemy.
It literally makes gold.
Government investment in NIH turns $1 into $2.46
fiercebiotech.com/research/r…
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8 Feb 2025
NIH funding supported :
*** 412,041 jobs ***
*** $92.89 billion in new economic activity***
*** $2.46 for every NIH $1 spent.***
We are a $100B industry.
Let's act like it !
How about, at a bare minimum, we all just call our congressional reps??
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31 Jan 2025
Fresh off the press, our paper linking #TravelingWaves #Cortex #Dendrites #inhibition is online @ScienceAdvances. Brilliant effort by @dgonzales1990 @Hammad_FKhan @HayagreevKeri and others. A big thanks to @_mullerlab @LabPluta & @NIH_CommonFund @AFOSR
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