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Postdoc @Froemkelab @NYULH_Neuro || PhD @jesseGlab @CornellNBB

 New York, NY
Joined May 2014
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Kicking off the new year with our new paper in @Nature! We find that touch-guided tongue control in mice relies on a collicular mechanosensorimotor map, analogous to collicular visuomotor maps associated with visually-guided orienting in many species. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

A collicular map for touch-guided tongue control

Nature - Touch-guided tongue control in mice relies on a collicular mechanosensorimotor map, analogous to collicular visuomotor maps associated with visually guided orienting across many species.

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Boaz Styr@BoazStyrOct 13
My paper on motor cortex during free flight in bats is online. The dynamics look quite different from the usual picture. Maybe because flight is a hard control problem: hand-like wings, many degrees of freedom, millisecond precision. cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…

A high-dimensional population code in the bat motor cortex during natural dexterous flight

Bats use their hand-like wings to reproduce natural flights with wingbeat-level precision. Rather than mainly tracking the wingbeat cycle, the wing motor cortex generates sparse, distinct population...

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eLife - the journal@eLifeOct 10
How experience shapes individuality elifesciences.org/articles/1…

Environmental Learning: How experience shapes individuality

Behavioural diversity across fruit flies changes with individual learning, even when genetic, past and momentary environmental factors are held constant.

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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 5
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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An exciting career update to share! Next month I'll be starting as a senior researcher at Rethink Priorities (@RethinkPriors), a think tank focused on promoting and safeguarding present and future human and animal flourishing. rethinkpriorities.org

Rethink Priorities

Rethink Priorities is a think-and-do tank. Through research and action, we improve the lives of humans and animals—both now and in the future.

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Jesse Goldberg@jesseGlabSep 14
Accepting postdoc applicants for work on Neural Mechanisms of Social Communication Parrots. Apply via email, and see latest unpublished work here: sites.google.com/view/goldbe…
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David Rowland@DavidCRowlandSep 10
I saw a version of this my last weeks at Nature and thought it was awesome. Happy to see it out in the world. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits

Nature - An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.

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Drew Schreiner@SchreinerDrewSep 9
I’m on the faculty market this fall! NIH K99/R00 awardee using birdsong to study how brains learn complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know a faculty search where I might fit? Send it my way + share! drewschreiner.github.io/ #neuroscience

Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning

I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.

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First study out! Using a new cooperative paradigm and multi-agent inverse RL, we show that mice spontaneously adopt leader/follower roles, and the prefrontal cortex encodes these role dynamics and an egocentric social value map of the partner’s position. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Asymmetric prefrontal representations for leader–follower dynamics

Nature - Mice spontaneously form leader and follower roles during cooperation, and the medial prefrontal cortex encodes these role dynamics and an egocentric social value map of the partner’s...

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Harris Kaplan@harris_kaplanAug 14
I'm thrilled to announce the opening of the Kaplan Lab at the University of Virginia @UVA! We're a neuroscience lab defining circuits that underlie naturalistic behaviors in infants and adults. We're actively recruiting students and postdocs. Learn more at kaplan-lab.org
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Anna Gruzdeva@_anngru_Aug 3
Happy to share our preprint! We show that hypothalamic hunger-promoting AgRP neurons reflect proximity to food across different mazes in hungry mice. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Hunger neurons track available food locations during foraging and spatial memory recall

Foraging requires animals to integrate metabolic needs with knowledge of where resources are located. Agouti-related peptide (AgRP) neurons in the hypothalamus are central regulators of appetitive...

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Reza Shadmehr@reziliusRezaJul 28
How does the brain know which neurons to blame when a movement goes wrong? In machine learning, gradient descent solves this credit-assignment problem. We asked whether the cerebellum might do something similar. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of...

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Quentin Bacquelé@QBacqueleJul 23
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @ScienceMagazine (science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…) Here is what we found:
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NBA
@NBAJun 14
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
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Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out now @Nature , we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster, but at a cost.🧵 #neuroscience nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Open link: rdcu.be/fiyrS

A synaptic locus of song learning

Nature - Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia...

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Helen Hou@HelenxHouMay 11
Our latest paper is out in @NatureNeuro! Cheese3D🧀 enables sensitive, quantitative analysis of whole-face dynamics in mice. Manuscript: nature.com/articles/s41593-0… Code: github.com/Hou-Lab-CSHL/chee… Led by Kyle Daruwalla & Irene Nozal Martin, with contributions from the entire lab.
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Danny Chau@dannychauMay 4
I went long on a natural wonder. My feature on the voice of David Attenborough: theringer.com/2026/05/04/tv/…

David Attenborough and the Voice That Revealed a Planet

He turned a whisper into one of the most powerful voices in history. At 100, it carries both wonder and warning.

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Ahmed El Hady
@zamakanyApr 24
After three years of working on this review with my collaborator Emily Jane Dennis from Janelia Farm Research Campus , it is finally in press. The review provides an overview and our personal reflections on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Pretty pertinent discussion today as foraging is becoming a topic of interest for many neuroscientists. Enjoy the review annualreviews.org/content/jo…

Neurobiology of Foraging: An Integrative Approach

Foraging, defined as the search for food to sustain one's energetic needs, is a fundamental behavior performed by almost all animals to survive in their environment. Foraging involves a variety of...

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How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my new paper with @WallaceUcsf! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny! 🧵1/n
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Congrats @KenjiEricLee!
Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University@buCSNneuroApr 21
Congrats to @buCSNneuro faculty Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, his student: @KenjiEricLee, and collaborators on their new paper in @NatureComms A multimodal approach for visualizing and identifying electrophysiological cell types in vivo: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…

A multimodal approach for visualizing and identifying electrophysiological cell types in vivo

Nature Communications - In this study, the authors develop PhysMAP, which combines multiple electrophysiological features to identify neuronal cell types in the neural circuit, advancing the...

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Cell@CellCellPressMar 19
New issue alert👉cell.com/cell/current Yoshida et al. present 3D, single-cell-resolution atlases of multiple adult mouse organs and of the entire neonatal mouse. The artwork reimagines Klimt's decorative motifs to reflect the organization and vast scale of individual cells.
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