Flor Iacaruso
@flor-iacaruso.bsky.social
Neuronal Circuits and Behaviour laboratory, Group Leader
@theCrick
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/flor-iacaruso
@theCrick
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/flor-iacaruso
Pinned
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨 Big news for the neuroscience community!
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨 Big news for the neuroscience community!
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
📣 postdoc and senior scientist opportunities with a wonderful mentor at the Crick. Amazing place to do connectomics.
Enthusiastic about connectomics and X-rays?
Several positions in our group at Crick for postdocs and senior scientists (permanent!).
DM me if interested – and let’s talk if you are at Sfn next days or at the NIH BRAIN CONNECTS meeting today!
Please share!
Several positions in our group at Crick for postdocs and senior scientists (permanent!).
DM me if interested – and let’s talk if you are at Sfn next days or at the NIH BRAIN CONNECTS meeting today!
Please share!
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
📣 postdoc and senior scientist opportunities with a wonderful mentor at the Crick. Amazing place to do connectomics.
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Latest from the lab: Laura Haetzel finds that excitatory transmission from auditory thalamus to tail of striatum is accompanied by a sparse inhibitory projection. This allows for state-dependent control of striatal output.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Inhibitory inputs from thalamus promote resilient spiking in tail of striatum
Neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience
www.cell.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Latest from the lab: Laura Haetzel finds that excitatory transmission from auditory thalamus to tail of striatum is accompanied by a sparse inhibitory projection. This allows for state-dependent control of striatal output.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Bit more than 2 weeks to go...
DM me if you will be in San Diego at SfN and want to talk about it. Please share.
DM me if you will be in San Diego at SfN and want to talk about it. Please share.
The Crick is an absolutely amazing place to work in - please share this opportunity widely with your colleagues and postdocs - and DM me if I can help in any way
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Bit more than 2 weeks to go...
DM me if you will be in San Diego at SfN and want to talk about it. Please share.
DM me if you will be in San Diego at SfN and want to talk about it. Please share.
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come join our dept as a fellow - and join a fantastic crew of people using interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the brain across scales - from molecules to behaviour. reach out if you have any Qs!
Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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November 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
come join our dept as a fellow - and join a fantastic crew of people using interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the brain across scales - from molecules to behaviour. reach out if you have any Qs!
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Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information
Functional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus - Nature Communications
Whether and how anatomically distinct regions of the superior colliculus (SC) exhibit specialisation in multisensory temporal integration to facilitate different behavioural responses are not fully un...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information
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Save the date! The Open Software Summer School returns August 17-28 2026 in London, U.K.
There will be four separate tracks on animal behaviour, extracellular electrophysiology, anatomy and handling large data.
Applications open Dec 1st.
More details:
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
There will be four separate tracks on animal behaviour, extracellular electrophysiology, anatomy and handling large data.
Applications open Dec 1st.
More details:
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Save the date! The Open Software Summer School returns August 17-28 2026 in London, U.K.
There will be four separate tracks on animal behaviour, extracellular electrophysiology, anatomy and handling large data.
Applications open Dec 1st.
More details:
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
There will be four separate tracks on animal behaviour, extracellular electrophysiology, anatomy and handling large data.
Applications open Dec 1st.
More details:
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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Crick group leaders work across disciplines, supported by core funding and mentoring to build ambitious, curiosity-driven research.
Apply now to join us ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Apply now to join us ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Crick group leaders work across disciplines, supported by core funding and mentoring to build ambitious, curiosity-driven research.
Apply now to join us ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Apply now to join us ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Psychosis is fascinating - and its impact can be devastating. Excited to share what we are doing in our lab @crick.ac.uk to change that 🧠🧪🥼
Drop by if you are curious! Free talk, everybody is welcome 👇
Drop by if you are curious! Free talk, everybody is welcome 👇
What is psychosis, and how can we uncover new ways to treat it by understanding it’s biological roots?
Book now for our free public talk by @kathaschmack.bsky.social, who leads the Neural Circuits and Immunity in Psychosis Lab here at the Crick.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crick-cras...
Book now for our free public talk by @kathaschmack.bsky.social, who leads the Neural Circuits and Immunity in Psychosis Lab here at the Crick.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crick-cras...
Crick Crash Course: Psychosis
Our series of morning lectures sharing science from across the Crick in a simple and accessible way continues.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Psychosis is fascinating - and its impact can be devastating. Excited to share what we are doing in our lab @crick.ac.uk to change that 🧠🧪🥼
Drop by if you are curious! Free talk, everybody is welcome 👇
Drop by if you are curious! Free talk, everybody is welcome 👇
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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Save the date: October 31, Amsterdam. A fantastic event for those interested in neurotech and neuro-AI, with a twist on how international collaborations can boost these fields. Please spread the word and join us there if you can! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Cajal Encounters
Neuroscience meets NeuroAI. Join us in this event to highlight success stories and foster collaboration in Neuroscience between Spain and the Netherlands!
Event Information
Date: 31st October (afterno...
docs.google.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Save the date: October 31, Amsterdam. A fantastic event for those interested in neurotech and neuro-AI, with a twist on how international collaborations can boost these fields. Please spread the word and join us there if you can! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Prieto Godino Lab | Cellular and molecular bases of neural circuit and behavioural evolution
www.crick.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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NeuroAI Course
📆 13–24 July 2026
🌍 Online & accessible worldwide across 5 time zones
Already taken our #ComputationalNeuroscience and #DeepLearning courses (or have equivalent experience)? Then you’re ready for the next step: Neuromatch Academy’s #NeuroAI Course!
➡️ neuromatch.io/neuroai-cour...
📆 13–24 July 2026
🌍 Online & accessible worldwide across 5 time zones
Already taken our #ComputationalNeuroscience and #DeepLearning courses (or have equivalent experience)? Then you’re ready for the next step: Neuromatch Academy’s #NeuroAI Course!
➡️ neuromatch.io/neuroai-cour...
October 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
NeuroAI Course
📆 13–24 July 2026
🌍 Online & accessible worldwide across 5 time zones
Already taken our #ComputationalNeuroscience and #DeepLearning courses (or have equivalent experience)? Then you’re ready for the next step: Neuromatch Academy’s #NeuroAI Course!
➡️ neuromatch.io/neuroai-cour...
📆 13–24 July 2026
🌍 Online & accessible worldwide across 5 time zones
Already taken our #ComputationalNeuroscience and #DeepLearning courses (or have equivalent experience)? Then you’re ready for the next step: Neuromatch Academy’s #NeuroAI Course!
➡️ neuromatch.io/neuroai-cour...
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We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join our 3-year fully funded clinical PhD programme. 🔬🩺
Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Doctoral clinical fellows
The Crick's clinical PhD programme.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join our 3-year fully funded clinical PhD programme. 🔬🩺
Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Are you a researcher at @ucl.ac.uk, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, or @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social looking to keep up with the Crick?
Sign up to our monthly newsletter for researchers at our partner universities to hear about events, opportunities and news ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/research/res...
Sign up to our monthly newsletter for researchers at our partner universities to hear about events, opportunities and news ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/research/res...
October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Are you a researcher at @ucl.ac.uk, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, or @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social looking to keep up with the Crick?
Sign up to our monthly newsletter for researchers at our partner universities to hear about events, opportunities and news ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/research/res...
Sign up to our monthly newsletter for researchers at our partner universities to hear about events, opportunities and news ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/research/res...
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Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
PhD students
Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
Apply by 05 November 2025
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
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We have a PhD project here, along with many other cool projects:
"Characterising and predicting seizure onsets from longitudinal sEEG data",
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
with @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social (Crick), Torsten Baldeweg (UCL) and Martin Tisdall (UCL).
Apply by: 14 November 2025.
"Characterising and predicting seizure onsets from longitudinal sEEG data",
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
with @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social (Crick), Torsten Baldeweg (UCL) and Martin Tisdall (UCL).
Apply by: 14 November 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We have a PhD project here, along with many other cool projects:
"Characterising and predicting seizure onsets from longitudinal sEEG data",
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
with @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social (Crick), Torsten Baldeweg (UCL) and Martin Tisdall (UCL).
Apply by: 14 November 2025.
"Characterising and predicting seizure onsets from longitudinal sEEG data",
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
with @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social (Crick), Torsten Baldeweg (UCL) and Martin Tisdall (UCL).
Apply by: 14 November 2025.
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Fresh from the press💥 We asked what happens when you evolve gene regulatory networks computationally at scale. Do general principles of GRN evolution jump out? Is the process predictable? Read on to find out @prxlife.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @ucl-ipls.bsky.social 👉 journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
Gene Network Organization, Mutation, and Selection Collectively Drive Developmental Pattern Evolvability and Predictability
The historical order in which mutations appear during evolution determine the evolutionary trajectory of gene regulatory networks and influence how developmental patterns change and diversify over tim...
journals.aps.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fresh from the press💥 We asked what happens when you evolve gene regulatory networks computationally at scale. Do general principles of GRN evolution jump out? Is the process predictable? Read on to find out @prxlife.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @ucl-ipls.bsky.social 👉 journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
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Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!),
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
2025 Neuropixels course
A free online course on Neuropixels, 22-24 October 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!),
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
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X Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience – LASCON 2026
University of São Paulo, Brazil
January 5-30, 2026
Application Deadline: October 4, 2025
sisne.org/en/lascon-x/
University of São Paulo, Brazil
January 5-30, 2026
Application Deadline: October 4, 2025
sisne.org/en/lascon-x/
LASCON X – SisNe
sisne.org
September 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
X Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience – LASCON 2026
University of São Paulo, Brazil
January 5-30, 2026
Application Deadline: October 4, 2025
sisne.org/en/lascon-x/
University of São Paulo, Brazil
January 5-30, 2026
Application Deadline: October 4, 2025
sisne.org/en/lascon-x/
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BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
September 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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Tomas Hromadka: COSYNE 2026: Meeting announcement; Call for Abstracts
COSYNE 2026: Meeting announcement; Call for Abstracts
Tomas Hromadka
groups.google.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Tomas Hromadka: COSYNE 2026: Meeting announcement; Call for Abstracts
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Antonio Roque: LASCON 2026 - X Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (Call for applications)
LASCON 2026 - X Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (Call for applications)
Antonio Roque
groups.google.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Antonio Roque: LASCON 2026 - X Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (Call for applications)
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Open postdoc positions in the lab:
Come work with us if you're interested in computational modelling of neural dynamics in the brain.
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121068-...
Come work with us if you're interested in computational modelling of neural dynamics in the brain.
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121068-...
Research Associate in Computational Modelling of Neuronal Dynamics
www.kcl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Open postdoc positions in the lab:
Come work with us if you're interested in computational modelling of neural dynamics in the brain.
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121068-...
Come work with us if you're interested in computational modelling of neural dynamics in the brain.
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/121068-...
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We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...