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Charlotte Boccara
@charlotteboccara.bsky.social
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Systems neuroscientist @NCMM (university of Oslo) interested in sleep, cognitive development and learning/memory
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jeromeepsztein.bsky.social
Happy to share our new paper with Mathilde Nordlund and Julie Koenig out @currentbiology.bsky.social. We used virtual reality in mice to study hippocampal distance coding. Our results suggest a primary contribution of grid cells to distance over cue-dependent place cell coding.
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Color-coded mean firing rate maps of place fields detected in the forth trials (left, sorted by the location of place fields peak) and back trials (right, sorted according to firing order in the forth trials) of all bidirectional cells recorded in the track with objects (top) or without objects (bottom). The color represents the intensity of the mean firing rate in a given bin normalized to the maximum mean firing rate (peak rate) in each direction. Note that in the CP condition, the mean firing map in one direction is the mirror image of the mean firing map in the other direction, indicating strong distance coding.
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
charlotteboccara.bsky.social
Only one more week to apply to do a postdoc with our group and this of
@thomasdwkim.bsky.social
@ncmbm.bsky.social
@nordicembl.bsky.social
! If you are interested, contact us or apply directly to the add. Please RT.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
August 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social
And for an update on autophagy and sleep, check out our review here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@charlotteboccara.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social
Rest, Repair, Repeat: The Complex Relationship of Autophagy and Sleep
Autophagy and sleep are two evolutionary conserved mechanisms across the animal kingdom. Autophagy is a pathway for the degradation of cytoplasmic mat…
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June 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
charlotteboccara.bsky.social
We have a 3-year postdoctoral position open in our lab in Oslo
@ncmbm.bsky.social
to work on Sleep and Development through the NORPOD program together with
@thomasdwkim.bsky.social
and supported by
@nordicembl.bsky.social

Check application here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
June 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Boccara
cooganlab.bsky.social
Sleep disturbance as the strongest predictor of subsequent psychiatric disorders in young people (greater than family history and adverse childhood experiences). Sleep disturbance is modifiable, a key node for intervention.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prediction of mental health risk in adolescents - Nature Medicine
Using longitudinal survey and neuroimaging data from more than 11,000 adolescents in the United States, a machine learning model shows promising performance in identifying individuals at greater risk ...
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June 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Boccara
interneuron.bsky.social
Increasing 5-HT during this time through genetic, pharmacological (SSRIs) or adverse stimuli results in an altered trajectory for the development of GABAergic interneurons, impacting early activity and – in the case of SSRIs – that present through to adulthood.

The article is here: rdcu.be/epHXV
Perinatal serotonin signalling dynamically influences the development of cortical GABAergic circuits with consequences for lifelong sensory encoding
Nature Communications - Ocana-Santero and colleagues show that serotonin is a key regulator of sensory programming. Early life SSRI exposure alters the developmental trajectory of interneurons to...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
charlotteboccara.bsky.social
🌍🧠 💤Join us on June 20th, 2025, in Oslo for a workshop that bridges System Neuroscience and Sleep Research in partnership with @esrs.bsky.social @ncmbm.bsky.social @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social @uio.no @KU
A satellite of the FENS regional meeting, register here:
frm2025oslo.no/basic-sleep-...
sleep workshop
June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Boccara
amathelier.bsky.social
Hei Oslo folks.
Registration is now open for the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2024, which will happen on December 9th - 13th, 2024. Please find the schedule and registration at www.mn.uio.no/sbi/english/.... The event is supported by UiO, UiO:LifeScience, and NCMM.
https://mn.uio.no/sbi/english/ev…
November 19, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Boccara
hanlab.bsky.social
Excited to share my first post here! Our new paper reveals a top-down breathing circuit that slows breathing to ease anxiety & fear. A step forward in understanding how brain-breathing interactions shape emotion. Published in Nature Neuroscience—grateful to my team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amy Cao
November 20, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Boccara
hugospiers.bsky.social
Interesting hypothesis about gamma oscillations:

elifesciences.org/articles/100...
The gamma rhythm as a guardian of brain health
Fast oscillations (30-150Hz), generated by internal brain mechanisms may be essential for the maintenance of healthy brain function.
elifesciences.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Boccara
denisejcai.bsky.social
🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10)

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature paper article with title and abstract
November 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Boccara
macaskillaf.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM