Emre Yaksi
@emreyaksi.bsky.social
Professor in neuroscience at https://www.ntnu.edu/kavli . To learn about our labs work please visit https://yaksilab.com
What a pleasure to have Prof Sten Grillner form @ki.se visiting us at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience for 2 full days and inspiring us about vertebrate forebrain evolution
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What a pleasure to have Prof Sten Grillner form @ki.se visiting us at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience for 2 full days and inspiring us about vertebrate forebrain evolution
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New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...
From cognition in the body to the body in cognition
Carlos Ribeiro and Albino Oliveira-Maia propose how brain–body interactions may inform
the study of ‘higher’ cognitive functions such as learning and memory across model
systems.
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Thank you @phylobrain.bsky.social for visiting us and sharing inspiring ideas about the evolution of the vertebrate cortex and beyond …
October 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Thank you @phylobrain.bsky.social for visiting us and sharing inspiring ideas about the evolution of the vertebrate cortex and beyond …
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What is the best brain to study disorders of behavior? Great discussion at @ecnp.eu moderated by @jatinnagpal.bsky.social with inputs from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @emreyaksi.bsky.social @eknapska.bsky.social & Hannah Clarke #ecnp2025
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What is the best brain to study disorders of behavior? Great discussion at @ecnp.eu moderated by @jatinnagpal.bsky.social with inputs from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @emreyaksi.bsky.social @eknapska.bsky.social & Hannah Clarke #ecnp2025
A wonderful Istanbul evening on Bosphorus with colleagues to celebrate science
September 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
A wonderful Istanbul evening on Bosphorus with colleagues to celebrate science
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So proud🤩: Beautiful work by @clykken.bsky.social 💃🏻 et al: finally we understand how the hippocampus can express multiple maps even though grid cell inputs are universal metrics.
E.g. hippocampal global remapping was induced when different grid modules anchored independently to environments. See 👇🏽
E.g. hippocampal global remapping was induced when different grid modules anchored independently to environments. See 👇🏽
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How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades!
Read it here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades!
Read it here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So proud🤩: Beautiful work by @clykken.bsky.social 💃🏻 et al: finally we understand how the hippocampus can express multiple maps even though grid cell inputs are universal metrics.
E.g. hippocampal global remapping was induced when different grid modules anchored independently to environments. See 👇🏽
E.g. hippocampal global remapping was induced when different grid modules anchored independently to environments. See 👇🏽
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Very special encounter today at Prague museum! It was incredible to see the skeleton of two of the first humanoids Lucy and Selam from 3.2 millions years ago. I highly recommend to anyone visiting Prague! @emreyaksi.bsky.social
The original fossils of human ancestors Lucy & Selam welcome you to the new exhibition People and Their Ancestors - National museum
Exclusively on display from Ethiopia – the land of origin
www.nm.cz
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Very special encounter today at Prague museum! It was incredible to see the skeleton of two of the first humanoids Lucy and Selam from 3.2 millions years ago. I highly recommend to anyone visiting Prague! @emreyaksi.bsky.social
Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information:
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Hierarchical processing of sensory information across topographically organized thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain
Thalamocortical projections contribute to the spatial organization and functional hierarchies of the mammalian cortex. Primary sensory cortices receive topographically segregated information from firs...
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information:
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Thank you @pirtahotulainen.bsky.social for visiting us at Kavli Institute for Sytems Neuroscience and sharing your wonderful science, and making good memories ❤
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thank you @pirtahotulainen.bsky.social for visiting us at Kavli Institute for Sytems Neuroscience and sharing your wonderful science, and making good memories ❤
Deadline (September 2) approaching! Join us and start your lab at @ki.se!
The call just opened!
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
You can apply to several departments simultaneously, check out which depts better fit your profile! Here is the call for our Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
You can apply to several departments simultaneously, check out which depts better fit your profile! Here is the call for our Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...
August 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Academic growth is best understood not as a linear or exponential curve, but as a process of dispersal—spreading ideas, people, and collaborations outward into new domains.
#notetoself it’s dispersal, should be dispersal.
#notetoself it’s dispersal, should be dispersal.
August 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Academic growth is best understood not as a linear or exponential curve, but as a process of dispersal—spreading ideas, people, and collaborations outward into new domains.
#notetoself it’s dispersal, should be dispersal.
#notetoself it’s dispersal, should be dispersal.
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🚩Publication Alert🚩"Advection vs. Diffusion in Brain Ventricular Transport" by Herlyng at al in collaboration with @utropstegn.bsky.social at @simularesearch.bsky.social and Jebsen Centre for Brain Fluid Research is now published in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS! 🧠💧
Advection versus diffusion in brain ventricular transport - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is integral to brain function. CSF provides mechanical support for the brain and helps distribute nutrients, neurotransmitters and metabolites throughout the central nervous ...
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🚩Publication Alert🚩"Advection vs. Diffusion in Brain Ventricular Transport" by Herlyng at al in collaboration with @utropstegn.bsky.social at @simularesearch.bsky.social and Jebsen Centre for Brain Fluid Research is now published in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS! 🧠💧
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Excellent paper from @emreyaksi.bsky.social @manumameli.bsky.social labs. So much gold in the supplementary figures!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Calcium dynamics in habenular astrocytes regulate active coping within behavioral transitions - Communications Biology
Tracking of astrocytes dynamics in habenula reveals their contribution to behavioral transitions across species.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Excellent paper from @emreyaksi.bsky.social @manumameli.bsky.social labs. So much gold in the supplementary figures!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
New publication from our lab is just out! rdcu.be/ezk1U
In brief, we showed that glutamate-driven inhibition in the habenula can alter neural activity and connectivity, leading to amplified sensory responses and defensive behaviors.
In brief, we showed that glutamate-driven inhibition in the habenula can alter neural activity and connectivity, leading to amplified sensory responses and defensive behaviors.
Inhibition mediated by group III metabotropic glutamate receptors regulates habenula activity and defensive behaviors
Nature Communications - The role of glutamate-driven inhibition in neural computations and animal behavior is not fully understood. This study reveals that group III metabotropic glutamate...
rdcu.be
August 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New publication from our lab is just out! rdcu.be/ezk1U
In brief, we showed that glutamate-driven inhibition in the habenula can alter neural activity and connectivity, leading to amplified sensory responses and defensive behaviors.
In brief, we showed that glutamate-driven inhibition in the habenula can alter neural activity and connectivity, leading to amplified sensory responses and defensive behaviors.
Our postdoc Dr Dila Atak has received a big grant from Health Institutes of Türkiye to investigate alterations in human astrocytes associated with epilepsy. Thanks to fantastic clinicians of Koç University School of Medicine Drs: Solaroglu, Kulac, Gurses, Akyoldas, Baran for their generous support.
July 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our postdoc Dr Dila Atak has received a big grant from Health Institutes of Türkiye to investigate alterations in human astrocytes associated with epilepsy. Thanks to fantastic clinicians of Koç University School of Medicine Drs: Solaroglu, Kulac, Gurses, Akyoldas, Baran for their generous support.
The last hike in beautiful Helgeland, with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social ❤
July 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The last hike in beautiful Helgeland, with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social ❤
Above the arctic circle with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social <3
July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Above the arctic circle with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social <3
Norwegian summer ❤ spring, summer, spring , fall, summer, spring ….. 😉 right @nathaliejuya.bsky.social ???
June 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Norwegian summer ❤ spring, summer, spring , fall, summer, spring ….. 😉 right @nathaliejuya.bsky.social ???
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Lab representation at FENS regional meeting in Oslo. Thanks to the organizers and contributors for a wonderful meeting!
June 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Lab representation at FENS regional meeting in Oslo. Thanks to the organizers and contributors for a wonderful meeting!
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One of the exciting part of science is to celebrate milestones! We are super proud of Fanchon, Hien, Natalia and Aurora, our 4 MSc students who successfully graduated! Congrats once again! And good luck for what is coming next!
@emreyaksi.bsky.social @inyoungj88.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social
@emreyaksi.bsky.social @inyoungj88.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
One of the exciting part of science is to celebrate milestones! We are super proud of Fanchon, Hien, Natalia and Aurora, our 4 MSc students who successfully graduated! Congrats once again! And good luck for what is coming next!
@emreyaksi.bsky.social @inyoungj88.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social
@emreyaksi.bsky.social @inyoungj88.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social
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Excited to highlight @emreyaksi.bsky.social lab’s latest work for the @prelights.bsky.social : they’ve uncovered a topographic code in the dorsal raphe that drives flexible sensory–motor decisions in zebrafish, mapping brain dynamics to behavior in stunning detail! 🐟 #zebrafish #systemsneuroscience
A topographic code for behavioural flexibility?
@sinanmalik.bsky.social wrote a #preLight on work from Emre Yaksi & team mapping dorsal raphe dynamics to sensory-motor decisions in #zebrafish. 🐟 #preprint
Check it out! ⬇️ 👀
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...
@sinanmalik.bsky.social wrote a #preLight on work from Emre Yaksi & team mapping dorsal raphe dynamics to sensory-motor decisions in #zebrafish. 🐟 #preprint
Check it out! ⬇️ 👀
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...
Topographically organized dorsal raphe activity modulates forebrain sensory-motor computations and adaptive behaviors - preLights
A topographic code for behavioral flexibility? Mapping dorsal raphe dynamics to sensory-motor decisions in zebrafish.
prelights.biologists.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Excited to highlight @emreyaksi.bsky.social lab’s latest work for the @prelights.bsky.social : they’ve uncovered a topographic code in the dorsal raphe that drives flexible sensory–motor decisions in zebrafish, mapping brain dynamics to behavior in stunning detail! 🐟 #zebrafish #systemsneuroscience
Back in “the city”, only for very short this time… but any public transport adventure is a photo opportunity in this beautiful city ❤
May 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Back in “the city”, only for very short this time… but any public transport adventure is a photo opportunity in this beautiful city ❤
Among all things happening in the world, it is Sakura time in our Buvika ❤
May 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Among all things happening in the world, it is Sakura time in our Buvika ❤
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Star Wars Day falls on #ZebrafishZunday and we are doing our best to celebrate the day with this Naboo N-1 Starfighter-themed zebrafish larva! Credit to Dr. Ahmed Jamali of @emreyaksi.bsky.social Lab. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou 🧪
May 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Star Wars Day falls on #ZebrafishZunday and we are doing our best to celebrate the day with this Naboo N-1 Starfighter-themed zebrafish larva! Credit to Dr. Ahmed Jamali of @emreyaksi.bsky.social Lab. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou 🧪
Back in beautiful Norway ❤ for an Easter hike with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social … God paske !!!!
April 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Back in beautiful Norway ❤ for an Easter hike with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social … God paske !!!!