Michael Schellenberger
@mschellenberger.bsky.social
PhD student in the Moser lab @kavlintnu.bsky.social
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Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature
A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.
www.nature.com
Congrats @azvollan.bsky.social & @rjgardner.bsky.social & @edvardmoser.bsky.social & @m-bmoser.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Fantastic paper!
Reposted by Michael Schellenberger
Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠
Detailed thread below 👇
Detailed thread below 👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠
Detailed thread below 👇
Detailed thread below 👇
Check out the work @azvollan.bsky.social and I present tomorrow morning #SfN25
Poster QQ9: Theta sweeps can track moving bait and go backwards!
In our poster, we describe situations in which the stereotypic left-right alternating theta sweep pattern is modulated to cover behaviorally relevant space @azvollan.bsky.social
In our poster, we describe situations in which the stereotypic left-right alternating theta sweep pattern is modulated to cover behaviorally relevant space @azvollan.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Check out the work @azvollan.bsky.social and I present tomorrow morning #SfN25
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SFN 2025 let’s gooo!!
Moser group posters are held Wednesday morning (QQ), so if you’re leaving early feel free to come find us to chat :)
Moser group posters are held Wednesday morning (QQ), so if you’re leaving early feel free to come find us to chat :)
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
SFN 2025 let’s gooo!!
Moser group posters are held Wednesday morning (QQ), so if you’re leaving early feel free to come find us to chat :)
Moser group posters are held Wednesday morning (QQ), so if you’re leaving early feel free to come find us to chat :)
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1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Preprint link 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells
A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Preprint link 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Michael Schellenberger
Our work with Maxim Bazhenov's group showing interleaved replay of new and old memories within individual Up states using a combination of biophysical modeling and electrophysiology experiments.
Interleaved Replay of Novel and Familiar Memory Traces During Slow-Wave Sleep Prevents Catastrophic Forgetting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661579v1
June 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Our work with Maxim Bazhenov's group showing interleaved replay of new and old memories within individual Up states using a combination of biophysical modeling and electrophysiology experiments.
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Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇
June 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇
Reposted by Michael Schellenberger
Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it.
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex
Our experience of the world is a continuous stream of events that must be segmented and organized at multiple timescales. The neural mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown. In this work, we...
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it.
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Michael Schellenberger
Excited to share that our paper is now published in Nature! In this study, we uncovered a grid-cell-based circuit in medial entorhinal cortex that probes the surrounding environment with theta-paced, sweeping spatial representations 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Excited to share that our paper is now published in Nature! In this study, we uncovered a grid-cell-based circuit in medial entorhinal cortex that probes the surrounding environment with theta-paced, sweeping spatial representations 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats @azvollan.bsky.social & @rjgardner.bsky.social & @edvardmoser.bsky.social & @m-bmoser.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Fantastic paper!
Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature
A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Congrats @azvollan.bsky.social & @rjgardner.bsky.social & @edvardmoser.bsky.social & @m-bmoser.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Fantastic paper!
Reposted by Michael Schellenberger
Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature
A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Michael Schellenberger
Attention! Zong lab
is recruiting!! Two Ph.D and postdoc positions in neuroscience 🧠 are available!! Apply if you are strongly interested in applying cutting-edge
@TheMini2P 🔬 for frontier systems neuroscience studies!!!!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
is recruiting!! Two Ph.D and postdoc positions in neuroscience 🧠 are available!! Apply if you are strongly interested in applying cutting-edge
@TheMini2P 🔬 for frontier systems neuroscience studies!!!!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
The opportunity:
Spend 3-4 years in the @weijianzong.bsky.social working side by side with Nobel Laureates & other brilliant professionals in the international research environment at Kavli, located in the heart of beautiful Trondheim.
Spend 3-4 years in the @weijianzong.bsky.social working side by side with Nobel Laureates & other brilliant professionals in the international research environment at Kavli, located in the heart of beautiful Trondheim.
January 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Attention! Zong lab
is recruiting!! Two Ph.D and postdoc positions in neuroscience 🧠 are available!! Apply if you are strongly interested in applying cutting-edge
@TheMini2P 🔬 for frontier systems neuroscience studies!!!!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
is recruiting!! Two Ph.D and postdoc positions in neuroscience 🧠 are available!! Apply if you are strongly interested in applying cutting-edge
@TheMini2P 🔬 for frontier systems neuroscience studies!!!!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Reposted by Michael Schellenberger
Thankful for a loving family, all of my super funny friends, a happy and collaborative lab environment, and my rat Rafael for giving me some beautiful data tonight 🤩🥰🍗
November 28, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Thankful for a loving family, all of my super funny friends, a happy and collaborative lab environment, and my rat Rafael for giving me some beautiful data tonight 🤩🥰🍗