Zach Danziger
@danzigerzachary.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Rehabilitation Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
at Emory working on neural interfaces and models of the brain and bladder.
Blog: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/danziger-lab-blog/
at Emory working on neural interfaces and models of the brain and bladder.
Blog: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/danziger-lab-blog/
What if the key to curing disease like Alzheimer’s lies in the tiny, invisible molecules inside our cells? Hear more about Asst. Prof. Dr. Felipe Quiroz's research in brain health. Tune in for the latest ep. of Holy Shift! t.co/4nfdvj78dh
https://youtu.be/HxPt03rdq2c?si=qwVHGGKUlH4dsoAZ
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November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What if the key to curing disease like Alzheimer’s lies in the tiny, invisible molecules inside our cells? Hear more about Asst. Prof. Dr. Felipe Quiroz's research in brain health. Tune in for the latest ep. of Holy Shift! t.co/4nfdvj78dh
A compelling example of how neuroscience research can help us use the brain's own adaptability to fight disease.
This is why biomedical research is so important!
This is why biomedical research is so important!
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow : Vision Rewired | Ming-Fai Fong. Have a listen:
Vision Rewired | Ming-Fai Fong
In this episode of Holy Shift!, host Zachary Danziger talks with Dr....
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October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A compelling example of how neuroscience research can help us use the brain's own adaptability to fight disease.
This is why biomedical research is so important!
This is why biomedical research is so important!
Hear Lena discuss how we are understanding movement and how it can improve people's lives 🎙️
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow : A Life in Balance | Lena Ting. Have a listen:
A Life in Balance | Lena Ting
In this episode of Holy Shift!, host Angela Gill Nelms talks with Dr....
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October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hear Lena discuss how we are understanding movement and how it can improve people's lives 🎙️
Our new podcast is out about why biomedical science is so important to our communities:
Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow
Please Share!
Our first episode is Dr. Mike Davis on repairing congenital heart defects in children. ❣️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvO...
Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow
Please Share!
Our first episode is Dr. Mike Davis on repairing congenital heart defects in children. ❣️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvO...
Holy Shift: Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow - Episode 1: YOUR NEW HEART | Mike Davis
YouTube video by Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
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September 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Our new podcast is out about why biomedical science is so important to our communities:
Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow
Please Share!
Our first episode is Dr. Mike Davis on repairing congenital heart defects in children. ❣️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvO...
Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow
Please Share!
Our first episode is Dr. Mike Davis on repairing congenital heart defects in children. ❣️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvO...
Reposted by Zach Danziger
Please repost! We're hiring a postdoc to work with me and
@salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders.
siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...
@salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders.
siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...
SIPLab
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July 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Please repost! We're hiring a postdoc to work with me and
@salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders.
siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...
@salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders.
siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...
If you're doing #neuroscience out there, you don't have to be peer pressured to switch from #matlab to python. You do you. ❤️
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
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Confessions of a Neuro MATLAB Apologist – Danziger Lab
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July 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you're doing #neuroscience out there, you don't have to be peer pressured to switch from #matlab to python. You do you. ❤️
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
An argument for embracing the coming wave of neurotechnology: Neural augmentation can enhance and amplify our humanity without threatening our identity. After all, it worked for the Borg.
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
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Embrace the Fusion with Neural Technology – Danziger Lab
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June 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
An argument for embracing the coming wave of neurotechnology: Neural augmentation can enhance and amplify our humanity without threatening our identity. After all, it worked for the Borg.
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
The output Softmax should be interpreted as "the amount of class-N-iness" the input has, not the input's "probability of belonging to class N".
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
Making Sense of Softmax – Danziger Lab
scholarblogs.emory.edu
March 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The output Softmax should be interpreted as "the amount of class-N-iness" the input has, not the input's "probability of belonging to class N".
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
#BCI world, we made a new decoder that works *really* well. It picks a velocity off a short menu instead of allowing any possible 2D vel. 93% vs 39% success in our model and 61% vs 37% in NHP iBCI for cursor control.
Does it work for your #BCI?
Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Does it work for your #BCI?
Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Less is more: selection from a small set of options improves BCI velocity control - IOPscienceSearch
Less is more: selection from a small set of options improves BCI velocity control, Alcolea, Pedro I, Ma, Xuan, Bodkin, Kevin, Miller, Lee E, Danziger, Zachary C
iopscience.iop.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#BCI world, we made a new decoder that works *really* well. It picks a velocity off a short menu instead of allowing any possible 2D vel. 93% vs 39% success in our model and 61% vs 37% in NHP iBCI for cursor control.
Does it work for your #BCI?
Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Does it work for your #BCI?
Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
The HELP committee staffers are actually really nice (or at least they claimed they were happy to pass on my concerns to the committee).
They are saying their committee did not authorize or approve the NIH move, fwiw.
They are saying their committee did not authorize or approve the NIH move, fwiw.
Concerned about the devastating effect of the cut to NIH indirect costs (from >60% at many to 15% for all) on US biomedical research that takes effect tomorrow? Phone the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Chaired by Senator Bill Cassidy TOMORROW morning at 202-224-6770.
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The HELP committee staffers are actually really nice (or at least they claimed they were happy to pass on my concerns to the committee).
They are saying their committee did not authorize or approve the NIH move, fwiw.
They are saying their committee did not authorize or approve the NIH move, fwiw.
Reposted by Zach Danziger
We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
February 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Many science SM posts are about new grants and papers, which makes it hard to get a realistic sense picture of what its like applying for grants.
To help, especially for #newPI, I am sharing a complete record of grant submissions.
Full details on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
To help, especially for #newPI, I am sharing a complete record of grant submissions.
Full details on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
January 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Many science SM posts are about new grants and papers, which makes it hard to get a realistic sense picture of what its like applying for grants.
To help, especially for #newPI, I am sharing a complete record of grant submissions.
Full details on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
To help, especially for #newPI, I am sharing a complete record of grant submissions.
Full details on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
New user question:
Is there a way I can see posts/reposts from all my favorite scientists that are about their science, but not see their posts about their politics?
Or is it a package deal?
Is there a way I can see posts/reposts from all my favorite scientists that are about their science, but not see their posts about their politics?
Or is it a package deal?
January 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New user question:
Is there a way I can see posts/reposts from all my favorite scientists that are about their science, but not see their posts about their politics?
Or is it a package deal?
Is there a way I can see posts/reposts from all my favorite scientists that are about their science, but not see their posts about their politics?
Or is it a package deal?
Insightful take on why building good, predictive models of systems-physiology is so tough.
I can't help but point out that these same problems exist for baby models, not just monster ones, and that some of the problem comes from dubious modules...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
I can't help but point out that these same problems exist for baby models, not just monster ones, and that some of the problem comes from dubious modules...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
December 21, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Insightful take on why building good, predictive models of systems-physiology is so tough.
I can't help but point out that these same problems exist for baby models, not just monster ones, and that some of the problem comes from dubious modules...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
I can't help but point out that these same problems exist for baby models, not just monster ones, and that some of the problem comes from dubious modules...
scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
Have you you ever had an incomplete (ODE) model of your favorite system but can't complete it because your system has some lurking states you can't record?
We have a method to accurately infer the missing state *and* build a neural ODE for its equation!
It's at AAAI 2025: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08681
We have a method to accurately infer the missing state *and* build a neural ODE for its equation!
It's at AAAI 2025: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08681
Learning Physics Informed Neural ODEs With Partial Measurements
Learning dynamics governing physical and spatiotemporal processes is a challenging problem, especially in scenarios where states are partially measured. In this work, we tackle the problem of learning...
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December 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Have you you ever had an incomplete (ODE) model of your favorite system but can't complete it because your system has some lurking states you can't record?
We have a method to accurately infer the missing state *and* build a neural ODE for its equation!
It's at AAAI 2025: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08681
We have a method to accurately infer the missing state *and* build a neural ODE for its equation!
It's at AAAI 2025: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08681
We came up with a way to train a mix of biophysical ODEs and ANNs. The ANNs are full citizens - totally embedded in the system and numerically integrated. This is big for systems phys, where we want to simulate but lack all the eqns.
tl;dr on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
tl;dr on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
The Missing (Computational) Link – Danziger Lab
scholarblogs.emory.edu
November 27, 2024 at 2:40 PM
We came up with a way to train a mix of biophysical ODEs and ANNs. The ANNs are full citizens - totally embedded in the system and numerically integrated. This is big for systems phys, where we want to simulate but lack all the eqns.
tl;dr on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
tl;dr on the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/202...
The lab is looking for 2 postdocs to contribute creative juices to many ongoing collaborative NIH/NSF projects. We've got diverse interests, so motor control, comp neuro, rodent ephys, neurourology, human behavior all welcome.
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Opportunities – Danziger Lab
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February 13, 2024 at 4:36 PM
The lab is looking for 2 postdocs to contribute creative juices to many ongoing collaborative NIH/NSF projects. We've got diverse interests, so motor control, comp neuro, rodent ephys, neurourology, human behavior all welcome.
Ads here: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/opp...
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Hello world. Joining the crowd here to link up with neuroscience folks in motor learning, BCI, neurourology, and computational neuroscience.
Blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/dan...
Blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/dan...
January 24, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Hello world. Joining the crowd here to link up with neuroscience folks in motor learning, BCI, neurourology, and computational neuroscience.
Blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/dan...
Blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/danziger/dan...