Lab news and Photos

2025

• 3/2025, Two poster presentations at COSYNE:
  -- Lindi et al. [2-128] A combination of plasticity rules underlies learning of flexible goal-directed behaviors.
  -- Puri et al. [2-078] Modeling fish schools to uncover neural mechanisms of collective movement.

• 2/2025, Seminar presentation at Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary

• 1/2025, Seminar presentation at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Theoretical Visiting Scientists Program
  Link to recording of talk

• 1/2025, Liang Chen joins the lab as a postdoc.
  She will work on a CRCNS project in collaboration with Nachum Ulanovsky. Welcome!

2024

• 10/2024, Yonatan presents the lab's work in a special UCSD neurobiology seminar.

• 6/2024, Chih-Ying Su and Yonatan present collaborative work at ISOT (International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste).
  The presentations were part of the session "Models and mechanisms of plasticity and learning in early olfactory networks session" which Yonatan co-organized with Elisa Galliano (Cambridge).

• 6/2024, Yonatan is selected for the Theoretical Visiting Scientists Program at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology.
  He will visit OIST to develop a research program on the neural basis of camouflage.

• 5/2024, Palka Puri's paper is published in the 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 manuscript
  link to School of Biological Sciences press release

• 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.