Luc Estebanez
@lucestebanez.bsky.social
Brain-machine interfaces, Neuroprostheses.
CNRS, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @NeuroPSI.bsky.social
https://neuropsi.cnrs.fr/annuaire/luc-estebanez/
Member of team @TouchMoveLab.bsky.social
CNRS, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @NeuroPSI.bsky.social
https://neuropsi.cnrs.fr/annuaire/luc-estebanez/
Member of team @TouchMoveLab.bsky.social
🎉 We will have a talk by Daniel Huber at the NeuroControl2026 conference!
➡️ Register: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
➡️ Register: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
▶️ Daniel Huber from Université de Genève is one of 5 keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026!
▶️ Join us at NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
▶️ Join us at NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
🎉 We will have a talk by Daniel Huber at the NeuroControl2026 conference!
➡️ Register: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
➡️ Register: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
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🧠 We are pleased to announce that applications for the M2 Systems Neuroscience at the University Paris-Saclay are officially open 🎉
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/formation/ma...
@univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/formation/ma...
@univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
M2 Systems Neuroscience: from cells to brain functions
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
🧠 We are pleased to announce that applications for the M2 Systems Neuroscience at the University Paris-Saclay are officially open 🎉
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/formation/ma...
@univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/formation/ma...
@univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
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We invite applications for postdoctoral researchers with strong expertise in in vivo electrophysiology and circuit neuroscience to join our team at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM).
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We invite applications for postdoctoral researchers with strong expertise in in vivo electrophysiology and circuit neuroscience to join our team at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM).
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd
parisneuro.ovh
parisneuro.ovh
Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
parisneuro.ovh
January 28, 2026 at 9:54 PM
If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd
parisneuro.ovh
parisneuro.ovh
We are organizing a conference on closed-loop limb control, looking at both robotic and physiological control.
▶️ Register, submit your abstract!
▶️ Register, submit your abstract!
🦾/💪 Interested in the physiology of motor control? In robotics? In neuroprosthetics?
▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control!
▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control!
▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM
We are organizing a conference on closed-loop limb control, looking at both robotic and physiological control.
▶️ Register, submit your abstract!
▶️ Register, submit your abstract!
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
🦾/💪 Interested in the physiology of motor control? In robotics? In neuroprosthetics?
▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control!
▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control!
▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
January 20, 2026 at 2:50 PM
🦾/💪 Interested in the physiology of motor control? In robotics? In neuroprosthetics?
▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control!
▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control!
▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity - Nature Neuroscience
The authors mapped spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity...
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🦾 🧠 Are you interested in building and experimenting with the second version of our mouse forelimb prosthesis? Apply to our Post-Doc position at Université paris-Saclay.
Neuroscientists with interest for engineering, and engineers with interest for neurosciences all welcome! Apply now 🔽🔽🔽
Neuroscientists with interest for engineering, and engineers with interest for neurosciences all welcome! Apply now 🔽🔽🔽
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Chercheuse/chercheur post-doctorant en Neurotechnologie (H/F)
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
emploi.cnrs.fr
January 5, 2026 at 12:58 PM
🦾 🧠 Are you interested in building and experimenting with the second version of our mouse forelimb prosthesis? Apply to our Post-Doc position at Université paris-Saclay.
Neuroscientists with interest for engineering, and engineers with interest for neurosciences all welcome! Apply now 🔽🔽🔽
Neuroscientists with interest for engineering, and engineers with interest for neurosciences all welcome! Apply now 🔽🔽🔽
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Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍
🙋♀️ We are welcoming Idoia Quintana Urzainqui to NeuroPSi as a junior Professor! In her new team, she will research the Mechanisms that shaped early vertebrate brains, thanks to funding from a 2025 ERC Consolidator grant.
➡️ Learn more here: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/idoia-qui...
➡️ Learn more here: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/en/idoia-qui...
December 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Really happy to join NeuroPSI at Paris Saclay to lead a research group funded by an ERC Consolidator grant #ERCCoG . We'll study the origins of the vertebrate brain using shark embryos. 🦈 🧠 Reach out if you are interested in joining the team 🤍
We have opened a call for a post-doctoral researcher !
Our team @touchmovelab.bsky.social researches strategies to provide direct cortical feedback during brain-machine interface control of an upper limb prosthesis in the mouse model.
Our team @touchmovelab.bsky.social researches strategies to provide direct cortical feedback during brain-machine interface control of an upper limb prosthesis in the mouse model.
December 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We have opened a call for a post-doctoral researcher !
Our team @touchmovelab.bsky.social researches strategies to provide direct cortical feedback during brain-machine interface control of an upper limb prosthesis in the mouse model.
Our team @touchmovelab.bsky.social researches strategies to provide direct cortical feedback during brain-machine interface control of an upper limb prosthesis in the mouse model.
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
The hidden danger of Biorender
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The hidden danger of Biorender
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
How to restore #motor function after #stroke? This study shows in mice that a combination of #RoboticRehabilitation & non-invasive gamma band #neuromodulation improves motor recovery by restoring movement-related oscillations & parvalbumin #interneuron dynamics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n7QJng
October 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How to restore #motor function after #stroke? This study shows in mice that a combination of #RoboticRehabilitation & non-invasive gamma band #neuromodulation improves motor recovery by restoring movement-related oscillations & parvalbumin #interneuron dynamics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n7QJng
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
🤯 👁️ Did you know the primary visual cortex tracks head movements even in complete darkness?
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
www.pnas.org
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🤯 👁️ Did you know the primary visual cortex tracks head movements even in complete darkness?
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
Evenement à diffuser pour la fête de la science en @iledefrance.bsky.social @poncerlab.bsky.social
@bathellierlab.bsky.social @clairewyart.bsky.social
@bathellierlab.bsky.social @clairewyart.bsky.social
Fête de la Science 🧠
Lundi 6 octobre 17h-19h Hôtel de ville de Paris
Comprendre le cerveau et ses maladies : dialogue sur les enjeux éthiques, scientifiques et médicaux.
Avec @clairewyart.bsky.social , @bathellierlab.bsky.social ,...
Inscrivez-vous ici!
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Lundi 6 octobre 17h-19h Hôtel de ville de Paris
Comprendre le cerveau et ses maladies : dialogue sur les enjeux éthiques, scientifiques et médicaux.
Avec @clairewyart.bsky.social , @bathellierlab.bsky.social ,...
Inscrivez-vous ici!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Comprendre le cerveau et ses maladies : dialogue sur les enjeux éthiques, scientifiques et médicaux - Formulaire d'inscription
Plongée au cœur des neurosciences : un débat inédit entre chercheurs et représentants de la société civile pour questionner l’avenir de la recherche.
Dates de l’événement : 6 octobre 2025, de 17h à 19...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Evenement à diffuser pour la fête de la science en @iledefrance.bsky.social @poncerlab.bsky.social
@bathellierlab.bsky.social @clairewyart.bsky.social
@bathellierlab.bsky.social @clairewyart.bsky.social
1/4 Today we introduce the first upper limb prosthesis for the mouse model, controlled by a brain-machine interface! We show that mice can control this prosthesis via a brain-machine interface to solve a rewarded task.
September 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
1/4 Today we introduce the first upper limb prosthesis for the mouse model, controlled by a brain-machine interface! We show that mice can control this prosthesis via a brain-machine interface to solve a rewarded task.
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
🚨 New preprint + thread 🧵
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🚨 New preprint + thread 🧵
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
Never thought I’d see the day when LinkedIn is the biggest driver of engagement in our papers, but we live in some strange times.
August 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Never thought I’d see the day when LinkedIn is the biggest driver of engagement in our papers, but we live in some strange times.
1/6 We have a new/updated preprint out, led by Anton Dogadov, demonstrating operant conditioning of large cortical waves over mouse S1 thanks to a mesoscale GCamp6 brain-machine interface!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
1/6 We have a new/updated preprint out, led by Anton Dogadov, demonstrating operant conditioning of large cortical waves over mouse S1 thanks to a mesoscale GCamp6 brain-machine interface!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I'm excited to share my latest publication! 🚨
Global and local nature of cortical slow waves:
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
In brief, we explored in silico how cortical slow waves are shaped by both external inputs and intrinsic properties of neuronal populations.
Global and local nature of cortical slow waves:
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
In brief, we explored in silico how cortical slow waves are shaped by both external inputs and intrinsic properties of neuronal populations.
Global and local nature of cortical slow waves
Explaining the macroscopic activity of a neuronal population from its microscopic
properties poses a great challenge, not just because of the many local agents that
play a role, but due to the impact ...
www.cell.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I'm excited to share my latest publication! 🚨
Global and local nature of cortical slow waves:
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
In brief, we explored in silico how cortical slow waves are shaped by both external inputs and intrinsic properties of neuronal populations.
Global and local nature of cortical slow waves:
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
In brief, we explored in silico how cortical slow waves are shaped by both external inputs and intrinsic properties of neuronal populations.
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
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Excited to share our new paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social , led by grad student @rohitrangwani.bsky.social ! 🧠🤖
We show that robust #BrainMachineInterface (#BMI) control is possible using #cerebellar activity- even in a #stroke-affected brain.
#Neuroscience
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Excited to share our new paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social , led by grad student @rohitrangwani.bsky.social ! 🧠🤖
We show that robust #BrainMachineInterface (#BMI) control is possible using #cerebellar activity- even in a #stroke-affected brain.
#Neuroscience
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
(1/8)
Excited to share our new paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social , led by grad student @rohitrangwani.bsky.social ! 🧠🤖
We show that robust #BrainMachineInterface (#BMI) control is possible using #cerebellar activity- even in a #stroke-affected brain.
#Neuroscience
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Excited to share our new paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social , led by grad student @rohitrangwani.bsky.social ! 🧠🤖
We show that robust #BrainMachineInterface (#BMI) control is possible using #cerebellar activity- even in a #stroke-affected brain.
#Neuroscience
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
Two voltage imaging studies in two days using ASAP fluorescent indicators.
First, visualizing electrical brain waves with ASAP3, in Cell. Free link below. Though recorded by EEG for 100 years, how brain waves arise from different neuron types has been unclear.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
First, visualizing electrical brain waves with ASAP3, in Cell. Free link below. Though recorded by EEG for 100 years, how brain waves arise from different neuron types has been unclear.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Two voltage imaging studies in two days using ASAP fluorescent indicators.
First, visualizing electrical brain waves with ASAP3, in Cell. Free link below. Though recorded by EEG for 100 years, how brain waves arise from different neuron types has been unclear.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
First, visualizing electrical brain waves with ASAP3, in Cell. Free link below. Though recorded by EEG for 100 years, how brain waves arise from different neuron types has been unclear.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
Don't miss this upcoming informal gathering on the theme of SEARCHING FOR PRINCIPLES IN MOTOR CONTROL on Sept 23-24, 25 in Sorbonne University. It will enable you to present your work to the French motor community. Registration is free! motorconference.sciencesconf.org
Searching for Principles in Motor Control - Sciencesconf.org
motorconference.sciencesconf.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Don't miss this upcoming informal gathering on the theme of SEARCHING FOR PRINCIPLES IN MOTOR CONTROL on Sept 23-24, 25 in Sorbonne University. It will enable you to present your work to the French motor community. Registration is free! motorconference.sciencesconf.org
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
If you have missed it, wonderful workshop in Montpellier on most recent optical imaging techniques for neurosciences. One week left to register lnkd.in/etEmGyMm
Visit workshop 284
Free registration, accomodation possible on site.
Visit workshop 284
Free registration, accomodation possible on site.
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July 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If you have missed it, wonderful workshop in Montpellier on most recent optical imaging techniques for neurosciences. One week left to register lnkd.in/etEmGyMm
Visit workshop 284
Free registration, accomodation possible on site.
Visit workshop 284
Free registration, accomodation possible on site.
Reposted by Luc Estebanez
Scientists have developed OpenExo, an open source exoskeleton framework that could make wearable robotics more accessible and accelerate the development of new devices.
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: scim.ag/4koYIKY
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: scim.ag/4koYIKY
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function
We present an open-source, open-hardware exoskeleton to aid in accelerating the growth of robotic exoskeleton research.
scim.ag
July 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Scientists have developed OpenExo, an open source exoskeleton framework that could make wearable robotics more accessible and accelerate the development of new devices.
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: scim.ag/4koYIKY
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: scim.ag/4koYIKY