Mark Brandon
@markbrandonlab.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at McGill University
www.markbrandonlab.com
www.markbrandonlab.com
How good is your place cell model?
Come benchmark yours against real data - nearly 70K CA1 rate maps in various geometric shapes across weeks - collected and curated in my lab by the great @jquinnlee.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social
Come benchmark yours against real data - nearly 70K CA1 rate maps in various geometric shapes across weeks - collected and curated in my lab by the great @jquinnlee.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social
The dataset and code for our recent paper in Neuron (tinyurl.com/yc48d6vr) is online now!
The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
Mouse CA1 Calcium Imaging and Behavioural Dataset in 3x3 Geometric Morph Paradigm
The following dataset was collected by Dr. J. Quinn Lee, Dr. Alexandra T. Keinath, and Erica Cianfarano in the laboratory of Dr. Mark P. Brandon. All methods and details are described in the original ...
zenodo.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
How good is your place cell model?
Come benchmark yours against real data - nearly 70K CA1 rate maps in various geometric shapes across weeks - collected and curated in my lab by the great @jquinnlee.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social
Come benchmark yours against real data - nearly 70K CA1 rate maps in various geometric shapes across weeks - collected and curated in my lab by the great @jquinnlee.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social
Reposted by Mark Brandon
The dataset and code for our recent paper in Neuron (tinyurl.com/yc48d6vr) is online now!
The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
Mouse CA1 Calcium Imaging and Behavioural Dataset in 3x3 Geometric Morph Paradigm
The following dataset was collected by Dr. J. Quinn Lee, Dr. Alexandra T. Keinath, and Erica Cianfarano in the laboratory of Dr. Mark P. Brandon. All methods and details are described in the original ...
zenodo.org
April 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The dataset and code for our recent paper in Neuron (tinyurl.com/yc48d6vr) is online now!
The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
Reposted by Mark Brandon
Congrats Dr Gilberto R Vite! 🎉🍾
Gilberto successfully defended his PhD, on the role of the thalamus in coordinating activity in the entorhinal cortex.
Big thanks to his committee, Laura Colgin, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, Stuart Trenholm, and @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social 🙏🙏
Gilberto successfully defended his PhD, on the role of the thalamus in coordinating activity in the entorhinal cortex.
Big thanks to his committee, Laura Colgin, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, Stuart Trenholm, and @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social 🙏🙏
April 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Congrats Dr Gilberto R Vite! 🎉🍾
Gilberto successfully defended his PhD, on the role of the thalamus in coordinating activity in the entorhinal cortex.
Big thanks to his committee, Laura Colgin, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, Stuart Trenholm, and @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social 🙏🙏
Gilberto successfully defended his PhD, on the role of the thalamus in coordinating activity in the entorhinal cortex.
Big thanks to his committee, Laura Colgin, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, Stuart Trenholm, and @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social 🙏🙏
Reposted by Mark Brandon
Grateful to @apnews.com for covering our recent @pnas.org article on how London taxi drivers plan routes:
apnews.com/video/how-th...
#neuroskyence
apnews.com/video/how-th...
#neuroskyence
February 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Grateful to @apnews.com for covering our recent @pnas.org article on how London taxi drivers plan routes:
apnews.com/video/how-th...
#neuroskyence
apnews.com/video/how-th...
#neuroskyence
Reposted by Mark Brandon
New paper out in Cell Reports! Led by @susieyufeng.bsky.social, we found that chronic epilepsy in mice drives distinct synchronization deficits in hippocampus and MEC, with early changes in HPC and late-onset changes in MEC that align with progressive memory impairment.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
January 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New paper out in Cell Reports! Led by @susieyufeng.bsky.social, we found that chronic epilepsy in mice drives distinct synchronization deficits in hippocampus and MEC, with early changes in HPC and late-onset changes in MEC that align with progressive memory impairment.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Reposted by Mark Brandon
Here is the MIT Tech Review article covering the data collection linked to this new Phd Opportunity at our new International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign:
www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1...
January 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Here is the MIT Tech Review article covering the data collection linked to this new Phd Opportunity at our new International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign:
www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1...
Reposted by Mark Brandon
What are the brain’s “real” tuning curves?
Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking.
We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things.
1/21🧵
Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking.
We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things.
1/21🧵
November 25, 2024 at 1:39 PM
What are the brain’s “real” tuning curves?
Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking.
We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things.
1/21🧵
Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking.
We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things.
1/21🧵
Now out in Neuron! We benchmark place cell models using a massive CA1 dataset—nearly 70,000 rate maps—collected as mice explore environments with different geometries
BVC models perform remarkably well, but we hope this dataset/approach becomes a resource for testing/refining place cell models
BVC models perform remarkably well, but we hope this dataset/approach becomes a resource for testing/refining place cell models
Psyched that my postdoc work w @markbrandonlab.bsky.social + @atkeinath.bsky.social is now in Neuron! TL/DR: remapping in CA1 has a representational structure that is reliable across brains, and we use this representation to test models of cognitive maps.
#NeuroSky #NeuroAI 🧪🧠
tinyurl.com/4juhmad8
#NeuroSky #NeuroAI 🧪🧠
tinyurl.com/4juhmad8
Identifying representational structure in CA1 to benchmark theoretical models of cognitive mapping
Decades of theoretical and empirical work have suggested the hippocampus instantiates some form of a cognitive map. Yet, tests of competing theories h…
tinyurl.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Now out in Neuron! We benchmark place cell models using a massive CA1 dataset—nearly 70,000 rate maps—collected as mice explore environments with different geometries
BVC models perform remarkably well, but we hope this dataset/approach becomes a resource for testing/refining place cell models
BVC models perform remarkably well, but we hope this dataset/approach becomes a resource for testing/refining place cell models