Lab news and Photos

2024

• 4/2024, Palka Puri's paper is accepted for publication at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations Palka!
  This is collaborative work with Chih-Ying Su's lab on preprocessing of olfactory information in the sensory periphery, and its contributions to odor classification. link to bioRxiv preprint

• 3/2024, Vatsalya Chaubey joins as a GSR as he's wrapping up his masters degree. Welcome!

• 3/2024, Presentations at COSYNE:
  -- Susman et al. [3-128]: High-dimensional communication and gating of behavioral information across cortical areas
  -- Our collaborator Nicholas Audette will present in the predictive coding workshop

2023

• 11/2023, Bin Wang defends his dissertation and graduates with a PhD in physics.
  Congratulations Bin! We wish you the best of luck in your postdoc! 

• 9/2023, The lab receives a 4-year CRCNS grant from the NIH.
  The grant funds work with Arseny Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University) on multi-region brain activity supporting learned behaviors.

• 6/2023, Palka Puri awarded Friends of the International Center Fellowship. Congratulations!

• 6/2023, Shiva Azizpour Lindi joins as a PhD student. Welcome!

• 5/2023, Palka Puri receives an Interdisciplinary Research Award. Congratulations!
  The award is given by the UCSD Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA)

• 3/2023, Palka Puri advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

• 3/2023, Two poster presentations at COSYNE:
  -- Terada and Aljadeff [3-131]: Stable coding in gated recurrent neural networks
  -- Puri et al. [3-125]: Peripheral non-synaptic inhibition facilitates odor processing in fly brains

• 1/2023, Seminar presentations at Hebrew University and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience

2022

• 11/2022, Two poster presentations at SfN:
  -- Wang and Aljadeff: Loose balance supports distributed high-dimensional predictive coding in recurrent neural networks
  -- Puri et al.: Shallow networks run deep: How peripheral preprocessing facilitates odor classification

• 11/2022, Presentation at van Vreeswijk Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar
  Link to recording of talk

• 10/2022, Fabio Veneto defends his masters thesis in Torino.
  Will start his PhD at Technische Universität München, working with Julijana Gjorgjieva. Congratulations and good luck! 

• 8/2022, The Lab's first paper is published in Physical Review Letters.
  Congratulations Bin for bringing this project to completion!

• 8/2022, Bin Wang participates in the Methods in Computational Neuroscience course in Woods Hole 

• 5/2022, The lab receives two Innovative Research Grant awards from the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind.
  -- Project 1, in collaboration with Chih-Ying Su: How size and shape of sensory dendrites influence chemosensory function?
  -- Project 2, in collaboration with Dimitri Deheyn: Balance between centralized and peripheral information processing in cephalopods.
  We thank the Kavli Institute for its support and are excited to work on these projects.

• 3/2022, Yu Terada joins as a postdoc.
  He will work on a CRCNS project, and is supported in part by a Uehara Foundation fellowship. Welcome!

2021

• 12/2021, Bin Wang advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

• 11/2021, Fabio Veneto arrives for a 6-month visit to the lab. Welcome!

• 11/2021, Palka Puri joins as a PhD student. Welcome!

• 10/2021, Bin Wang selected to present his work at the Bernstein SmartSteps seminar series. Congratulations!

• 8/2021, The lab receives a 4-year CRCNS grant from the Department of Energy.
  The grant supports work with Nachum Ulanovsky and Liora Las (Weizmann) on learning optimal spatial representations in bats.

• 7/2021, Yonatan wins DARPA Young Faculty Award.
  The award supports work with Chih-Ying Su (UCSD) on functional implications of non-synaptic coupling of olfactory receptor neurons in flies. 

• 5/2021, Bin Wang awarded Friends of the International Center Fellowship. Congratulations!

2020

• 7/2020, The lab opens and Bin Wang joins as a PhD student.