Poirazi Lab
@dendritesgr.bsky.social
Dr. @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social lab (https://dendrites.gr/) at @imbb-forth.bsky.social. We investigate the role of dendrites in learning and memory processes, using computational models, behavioral and imaging experiments.
Our lab is taking part in Researcher's Night 2025 at FORTH in Heraklion.
Visit our booth and explore the fascinating world of our research.
✨See you there!✨
📍 Friday, September 26th 🕔 17:00–23:00
Visit our booth and explore the fascinating world of our research.
✨See you there!✨
📍 Friday, September 26th 🕔 17:00–23:00
🎉 Researchers' Night 2025 comes to Heraklion & Rethymno
@imsforth.bsky.social
📍 Friday, September 26th 🕔 17:00–23:00
🌍 Dive into the exciting world of science, research & technology!
Supported by the Region of Crete & the Regional Development Fund of Crete
➡️ Details👇
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@imsforth.bsky.social
📍 Friday, September 26th 🕔 17:00–23:00
🌍 Dive into the exciting world of science, research & technology!
Supported by the Region of Crete & the Regional Development Fund of Crete
➡️ Details👇
www.forth.gr/en/news/show...
Researcher's Night at FORTH | 26/09/2025 | News | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
The Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, is organizing the 2025 Researchers’ Night on Friday September 26, 2025, 17:00-23:00, simultaneously at two locations: at its central premises in Hera...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Our lab is taking part in Researcher's Night 2025 at FORTH in Heraklion.
Visit our booth and explore the fascinating world of our research.
✨See you there!✨
📍 Friday, September 26th 🕔 17:00–23:00
Visit our booth and explore the fascinating world of our research.
✨See you there!✨
📍 Friday, September 26th 🕔 17:00–23:00
📣New study in Neuron, featuring modeling insights: "Cell-Specific Dendritic Integration in Cortical GABAergic Interneurons"! It reveals PV & SST interneurons compute differently. This highlights how distinct dendrites enable specialized brain computations!
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Distinct dendritic integration strategies control dynamics of inhibition in the neocortex
Dendrites critically influence single-neuron computations, but their role in neocortical GABAergic interneurons (INs) remains poorly understood. We fo…
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July 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📣New study in Neuron, featuring modeling insights: "Cell-Specific Dendritic Integration in Cortical GABAergic Interneurons"! It reveals PV & SST interneurons compute differently. This highlights how distinct dendrites enable specialized brain computations!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📯We, the Poirazi Lab at IMBB-FORTH, are thrilled to announce an open PhD Student position!
🗝️Key Research Areas: AI, Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Computing, Neuronal Circuits.
📅Application Deadline: July 7, 2025.
Find out more about the position on our webpage: dendrites.gr?p=2825
🗝️Key Research Areas: AI, Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Computing, Neuronal Circuits.
📅Application Deadline: July 7, 2025.
Find out more about the position on our webpage: dendrites.gr?p=2825
Join the Poirazi Lab: Open PhD Student position! – Poirazi LabBlueskyEmailFacebookGitHubTwitter
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June 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📯We, the Poirazi Lab at IMBB-FORTH, are thrilled to announce an open PhD Student position!
🗝️Key Research Areas: AI, Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Computing, Neuronal Circuits.
📅Application Deadline: July 7, 2025.
Find out more about the position on our webpage: dendrites.gr?p=2825
🗝️Key Research Areas: AI, Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Computing, Neuronal Circuits.
📅Application Deadline: July 7, 2025.
Find out more about the position on our webpage: dendrites.gr?p=2825
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Have you tried building neuronal models with #DendroTweaks? It’s a Python toolbox we made to help you visualize and customize single-neuron models with active dendrites. And it's just got a major update! ✨ Here's what's new: 🧵
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Have you tried building neuronal models with #DendroTweaks? It’s a Python toolbox we made to help you visualize and customize single-neuron models with active dendrites. And it's just got a major update! ✨ Here's what's new: 🧵
The renowned #BrainConferences are coming to Crete, Greece for the first time! This is a unique opportunity for young scientists in Greece and abroad to learn all about the Adaptive Mind from the best scientists in the field.
Early registration is OPEN for the next #BrainConference! 🧠
🇬🇷 For the first time ever, the Brain Conference is heading to Fodele Beach in Crete, Greece, and you’re invited! 🌟
Register by 10 July 2025 👉 https://loom.ly/ei_yabg
@lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @brainprize.org
🇬🇷 For the first time ever, the Brain Conference is heading to Fodele Beach in Crete, Greece, and you’re invited! 🌟
Register by 10 July 2025 👉 https://loom.ly/ei_yabg
@lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @brainprize.org
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The renowned #BrainConferences are coming to Crete, Greece for the first time! This is a unique opportunity for young scientists in Greece and abroad to learn all about the Adaptive Mind from the best scientists in the field.
Join us for the DendroTweaks tutorial at CNS*2025
Interested in neuronal modeling?
We are hosting a hands-on tutorial at CNS*2025, co-organized with the Jaxley team.
Check out the full tutorial description here:
cns2025florence.sched.com/event/25kVa/...
📅July 5,📍Florence, Italy
See you there!
Interested in neuronal modeling?
We are hosting a hands-on tutorial at CNS*2025, co-organized with the Jaxley team.
Check out the full tutorial description here:
cns2025florence.sched.com/event/25kVa/...
📅July 5,📍Florence, Italy
See you there!
June 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Join us for the DendroTweaks tutorial at CNS*2025
Interested in neuronal modeling?
We are hosting a hands-on tutorial at CNS*2025, co-organized with the Jaxley team.
Check out the full tutorial description here:
cns2025florence.sched.com/event/25kVa/...
📅July 5,📍Florence, Italy
See you there!
Interested in neuronal modeling?
We are hosting a hands-on tutorial at CNS*2025, co-organized with the Jaxley team.
Check out the full tutorial description here:
cns2025florence.sched.com/event/25kVa/...
📅July 5,📍Florence, Italy
See you there!
💡Exciting NEUREKA Project news from Vassanelli & Poirazi Labs: A new IC method on HD-MEAs shows we can predict neuronal network causal architecture using spontaneous activity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Neuroscience #HDMEA #NeuronalNetworks #FunctionalConnectivity
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#Neuroscience #HDMEA #NeuronalNetworks #FunctionalConnectivity
Spontaneous Dynamics Predict the Effects of Targeted Intervention in Hippocampal Neuronal Cultures
Dissociated neuronal cultures on High-Density Multi-Electrode Arrays (HD-MEAs) provide a controllable in vitro platform to systematically investigate the formation, development, and functioning of neu...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
💡Exciting NEUREKA Project news from Vassanelli & Poirazi Labs: A new IC method on HD-MEAs shows we can predict neuronal network causal architecture using spontaneous activity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Neuroscience #HDMEA #NeuronalNetworks #FunctionalConnectivity
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Neuroscience #HDMEA #NeuronalNetworks #FunctionalConnectivity
New collaborative preprint with Losonczy Lab and Polleux Lab!
How does synaptic organization shape place fields in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons?
We mapped thousands of synapses & showed that clustering of excitatory inputs is key for tuning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Neuroscience #bioRxiv
How does synaptic organization shape place fields in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons?
We mapped thousands of synapses & showed that clustering of excitatory inputs is key for tuning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Neuroscience #bioRxiv
From Morphology to Computation: How Synaptic Organization Shapes Place Fields in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons
The synaptic mechanisms driving feature selectivity in specific neuron types remains a fundamental and unresolved challenge in neuroscience. In hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons (PNs), the development...
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June 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New collaborative preprint with Losonczy Lab and Polleux Lab!
How does synaptic organization shape place fields in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons?
We mapped thousands of synapses & showed that clustering of excitatory inputs is key for tuning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Neuroscience #bioRxiv
How does synaptic organization shape place fields in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons?
We mapped thousands of synapses & showed that clustering of excitatory inputs is key for tuning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Neuroscience #bioRxiv
Our recent paper on Dendritic ANNs, led by @spiroschav.bsky.social has been featured in Nature Communications Editors' Highlights! Check it out in the AI/Machine Learning and Applied Physics/Mathematics collections: www.nature.com/collections/...
March 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our recent paper on Dendritic ANNs, led by @spiroschav.bsky.social has been featured in Nature Communications Editors' Highlights! Check it out in the AI/Machine Learning and Applied Physics/Mathematics collections: www.nature.com/collections/...
📰Dendrites Press
Excited about our latest research highlighted in@medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy. Our collaborative work with Alcino Silva at UCLA, led by @meghasehgal.bsky.social sheds light on the mechanisms of memory linking, which remained a mystery for years.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
Excited about our latest research highlighted in@medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy. Our collaborative work with Alcino Silva at UCLA, led by @meghasehgal.bsky.social sheds light on the mechanisms of memory linking, which remained a mystery for years.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
Study shows that dendritic plasticity contributes to the integration of memories
Past neuroscience studies suggest that memories of events that occurred at short time intervals from one another are often connected, via a process referred to as memory linking. While memory linking ...
medicalxpress.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📰Dendrites Press
Excited about our latest research highlighted in@medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy. Our collaborative work with Alcino Silva at UCLA, led by @meghasehgal.bsky.social sheds light on the mechanisms of memory linking, which remained a mystery for years.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
Excited about our latest research highlighted in@medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy. Our collaborative work with Alcino Silva at UCLA, led by @meghasehgal.bsky.social sheds light on the mechanisms of memory linking, which remained a mystery for years.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
New research, in @natureneuro.bsky.social reveals that dendritic plasticity is essential for linking contextual memories!
Dr. George Kastellakis, in Poirazi Lab, @imbb-forth.bsky.social, contributed to this study under the supervision of Dr. @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dr. George Kastellakis, in Poirazi Lab, @imbb-forth.bsky.social, contributed to this study under the supervision of Dr. @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time - Nature Neuroscience
Sehgal et al. show that branch-specific dendritic plasticity mechanisms in the retrosplenial cortex link memories acquired close in time such that, unlike independent memories, linked memories are enc...
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February 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New research, in @natureneuro.bsky.social reveals that dendritic plasticity is essential for linking contextual memories!
Dr. George Kastellakis, in Poirazi Lab, @imbb-forth.bsky.social, contributed to this study under the supervision of Dr. @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dr. George Kastellakis, in Poirazi Lab, @imbb-forth.bsky.social, contributed to this study under the supervision of Dr. @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Poirazi Lab
📝In their research published @naturecomms.bsky.social, Dr.P.Poirazi,Research Director @dendritesgr.bsky.social Lab
@imbb-forth.bsky.social & the post doctoral researcher Dr.S. Chavlis,demonstrate how dendritic features in ANNs can significantly improve their efficiency & performance. bit.ly/4aKyC1S
@imbb-forth.bsky.social & the post doctoral researcher Dr.S. Chavlis,demonstrate how dendritic features in ANNs can significantly improve their efficiency & performance. bit.ly/4aKyC1S
A new, brain-inspired AI technology boosts efficiency and reduces energy consumption | News | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of FORTH have developed a new type of artificial neural network (ANN) that incorporates features of biological dendrites. This innov...
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February 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
📝In their research published @naturecomms.bsky.social, Dr.P.Poirazi,Research Director @dendritesgr.bsky.social Lab
@imbb-forth.bsky.social & the post doctoral researcher Dr.S. Chavlis,demonstrate how dendritic features in ANNs can significantly improve their efficiency & performance. bit.ly/4aKyC1S
@imbb-forth.bsky.social & the post doctoral researcher Dr.S. Chavlis,demonstrate how dendritic features in ANNs can significantly improve their efficiency & performance. bit.ly/4aKyC1S
Towards a More Sustainable Future for AI:
Led by Dr. Chavlis, our research, published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, demonstrates how incorporating dendritic features into Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can significantly improve their efficiency and performance.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Led by Dr. Chavlis, our research, published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, demonstrates how incorporating dendritic features into Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can significantly improve their efficiency and performance.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dendrites endow artificial neural networks with accurate, robust and parameter-efficient learning - Nature Communications
Artificial neural networks, central to deep learning, are powerful but energy-consuming and prone to overfitting. The authors propose a network design inspired by biological dendrites, which offe...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Towards a More Sustainable Future for AI:
Led by Dr. Chavlis, our research, published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, demonstrates how incorporating dendritic features into Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can significantly improve their efficiency and performance.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Led by Dr. Chavlis, our research, published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, demonstrates how incorporating dendritic features into Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can significantly improve their efficiency and performance.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...