Lisa Genzel (she/her)
@lgenzel.bsky.social
in love with memory and sleep research, puts rats, mice and humans into complex, mulit-trial tasks
Deadline is almost here, have you applied? fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
January 24, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Deadline is almost here, have you applied? fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal-cortical circuit https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.15.699122v1
January 18, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal-cortical circuit https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.15.699122v1
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Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting
In 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Very happy for this @ejneuroscience.bsky.social editorial on the importance of diverse research animals in neuroscience. We make the case that embracing a plurality of model organisms enriches the field and accelerates both basic and translational research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Very happy for this @ejneuroscience.bsky.social editorial on the importance of diverse research animals in neuroscience. We make the case that embracing a plurality of model organisms enriches the field and accelerates both basic and translational research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 AM
What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Meta-learning is expressed through altered prefrontal cortical dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.01.697272v1
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Meta-learning is expressed through altered prefrontal cortical dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.01.697272v1
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Subspace communication in the hippocampal-retrosplenial axis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.31.697203v1
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Subspace communication in the hippocampal-retrosplenial axis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.31.697203v1
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
❄️ A Year of #FENS: @fkne-scholars.bsky.social ❄️
🧠 #FKNE has continued throughout 2025 to champion excellence in European neuroscience by supporting researchers and strengthening scientific leadership across Europe
👉 Learn more about #FKNE here: buff.ly/2EWch1g
🧠 #FKNE has continued throughout 2025 to champion excellence in European neuroscience by supporting researchers and strengthening scientific leadership across Europe
👉 Learn more about #FKNE here: buff.ly/2EWch1g
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
❄️ A Year of #FENS: @fkne-scholars.bsky.social ❄️
🧠 #FKNE has continued throughout 2025 to champion excellence in European neuroscience by supporting researchers and strengthening scientific leadership across Europe
👉 Learn more about #FKNE here: buff.ly/2EWch1g
🧠 #FKNE has continued throughout 2025 to champion excellence in European neuroscience by supporting researchers and strengthening scientific leadership across Europe
👉 Learn more about #FKNE here: buff.ly/2EWch1g
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⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals
Nature Neuroscience - Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Deadline is approaching too fast!! Don’t miss it!
Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Deadline is approaching too fast!! Don’t miss it!
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
It's an important conversation for society to have - that ethical trade-off that @micheleabasso.bsky.social describes and you point to.
As we have it, we need to acknowledge that without animal research, new treatments for neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions will be blocked/stalled.
As we have it, we need to acknowledge that without animal research, new treatments for neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions will be blocked/stalled.
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It's an important conversation for society to have - that ethical trade-off that @micheleabasso.bsky.social describes and you point to.
As we have it, we need to acknowledge that without animal research, new treatments for neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions will be blocked/stalled.
As we have it, we need to acknowledge that without animal research, new treatments for neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions will be blocked/stalled.
Share and apply!
📢 Calls are now open for the #FKNE PhD Thesis Prize 2026 and #FKNE Mentoring Prize 2026! Two great opportunities to spotlight excellence at #FENS2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸
🔗 Learn how to submit your application or nomination : buff.ly/xMhQy3k
Read more below 👇
🔗 Learn how to submit your application or nomination : buff.ly/xMhQy3k
Read more below 👇
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Share and apply!
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Another new paper from the lab: Predictive theories like the SR imply that navigators who navigate differently should have cognitive maps which differ in predictable ways. Here we show that this holds in mouse hippocampal CA1.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Environmental representations in mouse hippocampal CA1 reflect the predictive structure of navigation
Predictive theories of cognitive mapping propose that these representations encode the predictive relationships among contents as experienced by the n…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Another new paper from the lab: Predictive theories like the SR imply that navigators who navigate differently should have cognitive maps which differ in predictable ways. Here we show that this holds in mouse hippocampal CA1.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen
You are a PI in Europe and have not yet filled in our questionnaire? Please do so! Let us find out the training needs of current PIs!
I’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social
We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science.
Take part or share:
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv...
Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science.
Take part or share:
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv...
Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
You are a PI in Europe and have not yet filled in our questionnaire? Please do so! Let us find out the training needs of current PIs!
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Terrific work led by @emmaroscow.bsky.social showing that hippocampal replay reflects events with large prediction errors, all the better to bootstrap learning as we slumber
Congratulations to Matt Jones & Nathan Lepora for seeing this through to the end!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to Matt Jones & Nathan Lepora for seeing this through to the end!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Post-learning replay of hippocampal-striatal activity is biased by reward-prediction signals - Nature Communications
It is unclear which aspects of experience shape sleep’s contributions to learning. Here, by combining neural recordings in rats with reinforcement learning, the authors show that reward-prediction sig...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Terrific work led by @emmaroscow.bsky.social showing that hippocampal replay reflects events with large prediction errors, all the better to bootstrap learning as we slumber
Congratulations to Matt Jones & Nathan Lepora for seeing this through to the end!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to Matt Jones & Nathan Lepora for seeing this through to the end!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Fellow neuroscientists, consider applying and reach out if you have any questions! fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Fellow neuroscientists, consider applying and reach out if you have any questions! fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
Application procedure – FKNE
rb.gy
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
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The @eara.eu Conference 2025: “Shaping the Future of Animal Research Communication” is underway at #mdcBerlin!
Our Scientific Director, Maike Sander, welcomed participants to #CampusBuch, and Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of the UK Science Media Centre, just finished today's first keynote. #EARA2025
Our Scientific Director, Maike Sander, welcomed participants to #CampusBuch, and Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of the UK Science Media Centre, just finished today's first keynote. #EARA2025
![The image captures a speaker [Fiona Fox] behind the a lectern, presenting to attendees. A cup and glass of water rest on the lectern, and an audience member is visible blurred in the foreground.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xe7uchirikbpccf37pu52pz2/bafkreia7vdtikr344qqzkykuozkggrjc7yfm75drbp7qhjpn6yddlfysra@jpeg)
![The image shows a speaker [Maike Sander] standing beside a lectern, holding a microphone and addressing an audience. The lectern features a screen with the conference branding and slogan: “EARA Conference 2025, 6–7 November 2025, Berlin, Germany – Shaping the Future of Animal Research Communication."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xe7uchirikbpccf37pu52pz2/bafkreidrawqvdzm6k7xsf5gtj3jjdvkwybyfaenmk622ov5q5lerc7aiby@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The @eara.eu Conference 2025: “Shaping the Future of Animal Research Communication” is underway at #mdcBerlin!
Our Scientific Director, Maike Sander, welcomed participants to #CampusBuch, and Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of the UK Science Media Centre, just finished today's first keynote. #EARA2025
Our Scientific Director, Maike Sander, welcomed participants to #CampusBuch, and Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of the UK Science Media Centre, just finished today's first keynote. #EARA2025
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Lively discussions at the @eara.eu conference 2025 continued with Session 1: "Effective Science Communication and Media."
Great energy inside and outside #mdcBerlin's conference center on #CampusBuch – from engaging panels and flash talks to exhibition and lunch break moments. 👇👇 #EARA2025
Great energy inside and outside #mdcBerlin's conference center on #CampusBuch – from engaging panels and flash talks to exhibition and lunch break moments. 👇👇 #EARA2025
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Lively discussions at the @eara.eu conference 2025 continued with Session 1: "Effective Science Communication and Media."
Great energy inside and outside #mdcBerlin's conference center on #CampusBuch – from engaging panels and flash talks to exhibition and lunch break moments. 👇👇 #EARA2025
Great energy inside and outside #mdcBerlin's conference center on #CampusBuch – from engaging panels and flash talks to exhibition and lunch break moments. 👇👇 #EARA2025
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Die @eara.eu Konferenz startet! Die europäische Dachorganisation für Kommunikation zum Thema Tierversuche hat @mdc-berlin.bsky.social als Venue ausgesucht und bringt damit die internationale Community nach #Berlin. Spannender Austausch!
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Die @eara.eu Konferenz startet! Die europäische Dachorganisation für Kommunikation zum Thema Tierversuche hat @mdc-berlin.bsky.social als Venue ausgesucht und bringt damit die internationale Community nach #Berlin. Spannender Austausch!
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.
Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect?
The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded.
EU should turn on the tap
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded.
EU should turn on the tap
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.
Reposted by Lisa Genzel (she/her)
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪