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✨Maps and memories✨ hippocampal-entorhinal electrophysiologist Moser & Dunn Groups • KISN Norway
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1/ Our paper appeared in @Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Fiete Lab and @khonamikail.bsky.social . Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

Congratulations Abe and Rich!!

We are still taking applications!

It’s an incredible feeling to see something you’ve poured your heart into come to life. This work was born from my curiosity about hippocampal “cognitive tuning.” Our interpretation of the environment depends on our actions, constantly evolving as we pursue our goals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on ketamine’s effect on astrocytes and behavior is out in Neuron by Marc Duque, Alex Chen, Eric Hsu, and colleagues @marcduque.bsky.social @alexbchen.bsky.social @ehsu6.bsky.social, with the Engert, Fishman, & Bergles labs, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

celebrating another year of excellent science, happy animals, and *happy people* at the kavli ❤️✨ @kavlintnu.bsky.social

Do octopuses dream? In any case, can't get enough of watching them sleep 😴🐙 Look at this symphony of patterns and movements! Incredible. youtu.be/006DjAixu9E?...

Awesome pub looking at the unique role of AD- and M2-projecting RSC circuits from Xiaoxiao Lin et al. #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thankful for a loving family, all of my super funny friends, a happy and collaborative lab environment, and my rat Rafael for giving me some beautiful data tonight 🤩🥰🍗

Very timely piece. With 3-4 probes per rat and ultra long recordings, I’ve already generated 95TB of data for a single project. Thinking lots these days about how to store and publish all of this… 😬😬 Raw files vs. spike times x behavior or something in between?? Or both?

go.bsky.app/LdtUYZS I created a starter pack for the growing community of hippocampus physiologists that have joined the great migration. Also included the physiology-adjacent. Tell me who I haven’t found yet

Now out in Neuron! We benchmark place cell models using a massive CA1 dataset—nearly 70,000 rate maps—collected as mice explore environments with different geometries BVC models perform remarkably well, but we hope this dataset/approach becomes a resource for testing/refining place cell models

This paper adds to a nice list of papers recently that (broadly) merge brain and body biology: The others one are www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... And www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super-psyched to share this preprint from my student Yicong (Alan) Zheng: "Recurrent Inhibitory Dynamics in the Entorhinal Cortex Support Pattern Separation" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... It's a new biologicaly-based computational model of the entorhinal-hippocampal system. Thread (1/?)

It’s always a fun lab meeting when the prodigal child @Erik_Hermansen1 returns! (booking conference rooms is not our strong suit)

When you’re unexpectedly in town and all your friends are neuroscientists

SfN 2024 😍

Come check out Moser group posters today at SFN!! ❤️We have: NPX, mini2P, recordings across HPC-EC circuit, remapping, ontogeny of torus, sweeps, all-optical stim, time coding, grid cell hot spot maps, LEC, RSC, SUB & minute scale oscillations! 8:00 AM-12:00 PM 190.01-190.11

At @FENSorg this year? Poster #PS01-26AM-004 (WED) Presenting my work on remapping of neural populations across the HPC-EC circuit using data from 3 simultaneously-recorded Neuropixels 2.0 probes (CA1-MEC/PaS-Sub) in freely moving rats exploring 5 different rooms over 12 hours!

@MartinBjerke_ presenting his PhD work (with @adric_dunn) using some classic @Drake memes at @kavliYROCK ‘s annual NeuroSys symposium !! 🧠

pre-presentation sun exposure ☀️ come see our recent work from the Moser group at SFN YY1-YY5 at 1pm today Unpictured: new group leader @soledad_gcogno

At SFN 2018 in San Diego, I met my future PhD advisors @MayBrittMoser @EdvardMoser and future partner @davidwtingley 🥰 I’m super stoked to be back in my old college town this year to present Part 1 of my PhD work, catch up with old friends, and see some new science !! 🧠

celebrating successes in the moser lab! congratulations on the acceptance of the miniscopes paper @WikiZong @HorstObenhaus @EmilieSkytoen @NienkeLdeJong @HannaEneqvist @RubenDVale @MayBrittMoser @EdvardMoser and marina 🤩

congratulations @davidwtingley on an awesome PhD defense! you are a brilliant scientist and the best partner.

did I just watch a presidential debate or an episode of the real housewives?

So far, my first year of grad school has consisted of: - moving to a new continent - being in a *very* long distance relationship - being emotionally tested by various physics and math classes - recording some place cells - a global pandemic

I’m looking for a few comp. neuro papers to discuss with my signal processing buddies that use laplace/fourier transform- any suggestions? Shankar & Howard 2012 is up first :)

Celebrated my last day in the McNaughton Lab @ucicnlm yesterday. I’d like to extend a big thanks to all members of the group for being supportive colleagues, patient mentors and my best friends. I’ll miss you all dearly. Next stop, Moser Lab @KISNeuro!

Monkey pool party at our place in Kuta 😂🐒

Took a slight detour on our way down to Taormina @davidwtingley

After a long week of #EpicFails, something kinda worked out! I’m being warmly welcomed to the world of grad school.

My people!! McNaughton Group photo 2019 ^_^

NTNU or Hogwarts? So stoked to be here in Trondheim!