Alexandra Keinath
atkeinath.bsky.social
Alexandra Keinath
@atkeinath.bsky.social
Hip, hip, hippocampus! Neuroscientist studying our personal space. Assistant professor at UIC. Head of the Keinath Lab since ‘23. 🏳️‍⚧️ wedobrainstuff.com
Gotta make sure your results generalize to mascots! #uic
May 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tough week to be a trans neuroscientist with an immigrant spouse in the US…

… anyway, see y’all at Winter Brain!
January 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
(3) Finally, we limit the mouse’s navigational options to change their navigational patterns. This induces a change to CA1 remapping structure to match the new pattern of navigation. Afterwards both behavior and CA1 revert to their OG structures. (Yes, that is 43 sessions of data for each mouse)
November 26, 2024 at 3:12 PM
(2) Within mouse, compartments that have similar navigational patterns (i.e. similar successor matrices) on a second-long timescale during early experience are represented more similarly in CA1. Between-compartment transitions did not match CA1. (Spatiotemporal scale looks suspiciously like BTSP?)
November 26, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Three primary findings. (1) Different mice show different patterns of remapping across identical unrewarded compartments. Doesn’t matter if we use rate map-based measures or location-agnostic measures. Same environment, different maps for different mice. Already a strike against geometric theories.
November 26, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Exciting day for us at the Keinath Lab! Last day of data collection for our first set of immersive VR experiments. 300+ participants across three experiments, this last one in an extra-large space! Stay tuned!
November 19, 2024 at 11:32 PM