Scientist I, Center for Data-Driven Discovery for Biology @AllenInstitute 🇺🇸 | Computational Neuroscientist 🧠 | Physicist 👩🔬 | she/her
Joined November 2015
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
Mar 20
ANNs can match neural activity.
But without biological constraints, they achieve it via the wrong mechanisms.
In our new V1 model, biologically constrained training achieves both.
Full story from our team leader, @AntonSArkhipov.
bioRxiv link: doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.…
New paper!
Deep-learning-assisted simulation of a cortical circuit:
integrating anatomy, physiology and function
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
It comes with a new major model release from @AllenInstitute.
Find models and code here: github.com/AllenInstitute/bi…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
New paper!
Deep-learning-assisted simulation of a cortical circuit:
integrating anatomy, physiology and function
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
It comes with a new major model release from @AllenInstitute.
Find models and code here: github.com/AllenInstitute/bi…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
A reminder that we will have a nice and fun Modeling Software Workshop @AllenInstitute on July 20–22.
It's free. We offer some travel support. And you get to learn about BMTK, SONATA, and VND.
Apply by March 15!
alleninstitute.org/events/20…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
20 Nov 2025
Presenting today at SC’25: a full microscopic-level simulation of the entire mouse cortex on the Fugaku supercomputer.
Big day for the collaboration between our @AllenInstitute group and the lab of Prof. Tadashi Yamazaki.
See here: sc25.conference-program.com/…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
18 Nov 2025
Check out our #Sfn2025 posters this afternoon: @shixnya and @beaherrera present simulations of cortical neurons and circuits and Paul Olsen talks about linking in vivo ophys with spatial transcriptions.
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
18 Nov 2025
Great work by Laura Green, @beaherrera, Kael Dai in collaboration with Tadashi Yamazaki's group.
17 Nov 2025
What happens when you combine 10 years of brain data with one of the world’s fastest supercomputers?
A virtual mouse cortex simulation, thanks to a global collaboration.
Discover how it was made and how it could help researchers study brain diseases: alleninstitute.org/news/one-…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
31 Jul 2025
Many thanks to all the attendees, team members, and @AllenInstitute staff for an exciting and productive Modeling Software Workshop!
Check out training materials at alleninstitute.github.io/bmt… and sign up for our newsletter if you'd like to receive updates:
signup.e2ma.net/signup/20108…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
2 Jul 2025
Cool updates in our newsletter:
📺 3D neuronal visualization in VND linked to Python notebooks via zmq
🧠 Stabilized Supralinear Networks implemented in BMTK
📢 Upcoming presentations at CNS*2025 and JNS by @beaherrera and @shixnya
See more and subscribe:
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
22 Nov 2024
Join us at the @AllenInstitute Modeling Software Workshop on July 28-30, 2025 in Seattle!
Apply here: alleninstitute.org/events/20…
And whether applying or not, please help us understand what the field needs by filling out this brief survey:
forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
7 Oct 2024
New publication out today on PNAS! Please check it out if you're interested in predictive processing and/or consciousness. A huge thank you again to @BastosLabNeuro and @MillerLabMIT for mentorship on this project!
7 Oct 2024
New results on how gamma/beta oscillations, spiking, and Predictive Routing are disrupted in unconsciousness! Incredible coincidence: The study was published in PNAS as first-author @SophyXiong
presents the work at #sfn24
poster F7! Come by and learn more!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
6 Oct 2024
The scientists are in! If you're at #SfN24, make sure you pencil in our office hours into your itinerary.
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
6 Oct 2024
TOMORROW - @BeaHerrera will be sharing how we approach multi-scale modeling of the mouse primary visual cortex at #SfN24.
📆 Mon., Oct. 7, 9:35-9:58am
📍MCP Room S406B
🎤 Session co-chaired by @AntonSArkhipov
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
5 Oct 2024
New symposium paper in @JNeurosci:
Large-Scale Mechanistic Models of Brain Circuits with Biophysically and Morphologically Detailed Neurons
jneurosci.org/content/44/40/…
Join our minisymposium at #SfN24 to learn from all the contributors.
📆 Mon., Oct. 7, 9:30am-12pm
📷MCP Room S406B
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
4 Oct 2024
Understanding the brain requires studying its multiscale interactions. At #SfN24, @beaherrera will be sharing how we approach multi-scale modeling of the mouse primary visual cortex.
📆 Mon., Oct. 7, 9:35-9:58am
📍MCP Room S406B
🎤 Session co-chaired by @AntonSArkhipov
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29 Jul 2024
I’m deeply honored and grateful for being selected as a Summer 2024 FIU Outstanding Graduate 🎓. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me along this journey, especially my family, friends, and mentors, Dr. Jorge Riera and Dr. Jeffrey D. Schall.
22 Jul 2024
🎓🎉 Congrats to Dr. Beatriz Herrera, Outstanding Grad Student! From early inspirations to groundbreaking research, she now shines at the Allen Institute! 👩🔬🔬🌟 🏷️@fiubiomed
Read more:
cec.fiu.edu/2024/07/ph-d-gra…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
16 Jul 2024
Second day of the Allen Institute Modeling Software Workshop.
We are discussing how to build, stimulate, and share models of brain circuits at multiple levels of resolution.
Enjoying the nice view, too. 😊
@AllenInstitute
@tcbguiuc
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
16 Jul 2024
We're extending our symposium abstract submission deadline to July 29th (11PM ET)‼️ Submit your abstract and join us in Baltimore on October 23rd. Also, remember you can always submit your BMES abstract for our application‼️
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
12 Jul 2024
Grand release of our new book #ElectricBrainSignals (books.google.no/books/about/…) in Oslo with all authors present. From left to right: Torbjørn Ness (@TorbjrnBkNess), @GeirHalnes, Solveig Næss, me, @EspenHagen79 , Klas Pettersen (@kl4sp)
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29 Mar 2024
🚨 #PaperAlert!🚨
Check out our Mini Review: Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques
@LabSchall @LabNmd
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Beatriz Herrera retweeted
5 Feb 2024
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Julio A. Peraza, Angela R. Laird, et al:
Methods for decoding cortical gradients of functional connectivity
doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00081
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