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Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Sammons et al. at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin. CA3 pyramidal neurons form a recurrent network sufficient for pattern completion. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Sammons et al. at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin. CA3 pyramidal neurons form a recurrent network sufficient for pattern completion. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ding et al. at Baylor College of Medicine found that functional connectomics reveals a general “like-to-like” wiring rule. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ding et al. at Baylor College of Medicine found that functional connectomics reveals a general “like-to-like” wiring rule. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.
Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Uytiepo et al. at UCLA show that fear-memory engrams form through presynaptic growth of multisynaptic boutons, even without coordinated postsynaptic activation. #SfN25
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Uytiepo et al. at UCLA show that fear-memory engrams form through presynaptic growth of multisynaptic boutons, even without coordinated postsynaptic activation. #SfN25
Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ko et al. at KAIST show that systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry—CA3-to-CA1 synapses cluster as memories age, driven by adult-born neurons. #SfN25
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ko et al. at KAIST show that systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry—CA3-to-CA1 synapses cluster as memories age, driven by adult-born neurons. #SfN25
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Chettih et al. show that each food-cache encodes a sparse hippocampal “barcode” orthogonal to place cells and reactivated on retrieval. #SfN25
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Chettih et al. show that each food-cache encodes a sparse hippocampal “barcode” orthogonal to place cells and reactivated on retrieval. #SfN25
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Dorkenwald et al. map ~2k synapses among L2/3 pyramidal neurons and find a bimodal size distribution—consistent with binary strength states plus analog noise. #SfN25
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Dorkenwald et al. map ~2k synapses among L2/3 pyramidal neurons and find a bimodal size distribution—consistent with binary strength states plus analog noise. #SfN25
Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Wright et al. demonstrate compartmental plasticity, including apical potentiation from local coactivity (spike-independent) and basal requirements for pre- and post-coincidence (2-photon imaging). #SfN25
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Wright et al. demonstrate compartmental plasticity, including apical potentiation from local coactivity (spike-independent) and basal requirements for pre- and post-coincidence (2-photon imaging). #SfN25
Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Abatis et al. show fear learning strengthens recurrent LA-engram synapses, forming an attractor driving recall (viral tagging + 12-cell patch-clamp). See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Abatis et al. show fear learning strengthens recurrent LA-engram synapses, forming an attractor driving recall (viral tagging + 12-cell patch-clamp). See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Bittner et al. at HHMI Janelia/Stanford identified seconds-scale, non-Hebbian plasticity via dendritic plateaus that imprint CA1 place fields. Join us at #SfN25
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Bittner et al. at HHMI Janelia/Stanford identified seconds-scale, non-Hebbian plasticity via dendritic plateaus that imprint CA1 place fields. Join us at #SfN25
Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Nominee: Tavakoli et al. (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) developed a new technique, light-microscopy-based connectomics, to fully trace all neuronal connections in brain tissue using fluorescence microscopy. #SfN2025
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Nominee: Tavakoli et al. (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) developed a new technique, light-microscopy-based connectomics, to fully trace all neuronal connections in brain tissue using fluorescence microscopy. #SfN2025
Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Lappalainen et al. fixed a recurrent network’s wiring to the Drosophila optic-lobe connectome, then task-optimized its remaining neuron/synapse parameters for optic-flow detection. #SfN2025
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Lappalainen et al. fixed a recurrent network’s wiring to the Drosophila optic-lobe connectome, then task-optimized its remaining neuron/synapse parameters for optic-flow detection. #SfN2025
Memory Decoding advances nominated for 2025 Aspirational Neuroscience Awards! aspirationalneuroscience.org/nominations-...
Join the catered SfN satellite event with Experts panel discussion: Nov. 17 @ 7pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront room Cobalt 500 #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #SfN2025
Join the catered SfN satellite event with Experts panel discussion: Nov. 17 @ 7pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront room Cobalt 500 #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #SfN2025
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Memory Decoding advances nominated for 2025 Aspirational Neuroscience Awards! aspirationalneuroscience.org/nominations-...
Join the catered SfN satellite event with Experts panel discussion: Nov. 17 @ 7pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront room Cobalt 500 #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #SfN2025
Join the catered SfN satellite event with Experts panel discussion: Nov. 17 @ 7pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront room Cobalt 500 #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #SfN2025
Journal club TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time: Functional Connectomics Reveals General Wiring Rule in Mouse Visual Cortex -- join at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #connectomics #mouse
October 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Journal club TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time: Functional Connectomics Reveals General Wiring Rule in Mouse Visual Cortex -- join at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #connectomics #mouse
Join us TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific time for "Connectomic traces of Hebbian plasticity in the entorhinal-hippocampal system" at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #hippocampal #plasticity #connectome
October 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Join us TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific time for "Connectomic traces of Hebbian plasticity in the entorhinal-hippocampal system" at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #hippocampal #plasticity #connectome
Join us TODAY at carboncopies.org/aspirational... for a memory decoding journal club about plasticity rules in dendritic compartments presented by Dr. Kenneth Hayworth #memory #decoding #neuroscience #plasticity #dendrites
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Join us TODAY at carboncopies.org/aspirational... for a memory decoding journal club about plasticity rules in dendritic compartments presented by Dr. Kenneth Hayworth #memory #decoding #neuroscience #plasticity #dendrites
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September 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Join our Memory Decoding journal club to discuss the paper "A combinatorial neural code for long-term motor memory" - on Tue., Sep. 9 at 3 pm US Pacific Time at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #neuroscience #LTM #motor
September 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Join our Memory Decoding journal club to discuss the paper "A combinatorial neural code for long-term motor memory" - on Tue., Sep. 9 at 3 pm US Pacific Time at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #neuroscience #LTM #motor
Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity underlies CA1 place fields" TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #plasticity #hippocampus
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity underlies CA1 place fields" TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #plasticity #hippocampus
Join us Tomorrow - Tue Aug 12 - at 3 pm PDT for "The Dendritic Engram", a Memory Decoding journal club carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #dendritic #aspirational #decoding
August 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Join us Tomorrow - Tue Aug 12 - at 3 pm PDT for "The Dendritic Engram", a Memory Decoding journal club carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #dendritic #aspirational #decoding
Join our Special Session of the Memory Decoding journal club to discuss proposed papers to be nominated for the Aspirational Neuroscience Prize at SfN2025. Tuesday at 3 pm PDT at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memory #decoding
July 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Join our Special Session of the Memory Decoding journal club to discuss proposed papers to be nominated for the Aspirational Neuroscience Prize at SfN2025. Tuesday at 3 pm PDT at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memory #decoding
Binary & analog variation of Synapses - Join the journal club today at 3 pm PDT carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience, #memory, #decoding
July 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Binary & analog variation of Synapses - Join the journal club today at 3 pm PDT carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience, #memory, #decoding
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July 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Join tomorrow 3 pm PDT! Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #decoding #hippocampus #consolidation
June 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Join tomorrow 3 pm PDT! Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #decoding #hippocampus #consolidation
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June 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Join our next Memory Decoding journal club: carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #neuroscience #memory #decoding #aspirational #hippocampus
Join us at the Memory Decoding journal club!
"Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories" June 17 - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #aspirationalneuroscience, #memorydecoding, #neocortex, #EM, #reconstruction
"Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories" June 17 - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #aspirationalneuroscience, #memorydecoding, #neocortex, #EM, #reconstruction
June 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Join us at the Memory Decoding journal club!
"Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories" June 17 - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #aspirationalneuroscience, #memorydecoding, #neocortex, #EM, #reconstruction
"Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories" June 17 - carboncopies.org/Events/Journ... #aspirationalneuroscience, #memorydecoding, #neocortex, #EM, #reconstruction