Flavio Donato
Interested in all things memory, space, and the infant brain. @FensKavliNet Scholar. Assistant Professor @biozentrum @unibasel_en. Donatolab.com 🧠👨🏻🔬🏳️🌈
- Reposted by Flavio DonatoThe hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal! Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/6)
- Reposted by Flavio DonatoI am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
- Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Flavio DonatoNew study on axon initial segment plasticity by Chloé Benoit and Dan Ganea. Using a deep brain imaging approach, we find that AIS length changes dynamically during associative learning. Thank you to the wonderful team and collaborators who made this work possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Check this amazing resource by @octoscience.bsky.social !! Can’t wait to try it out!!
- Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!
- Reposted by Flavio Donatolab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Flavio DonatoFrom artificial intelligence to memory and from gene regulation to treatments for blindness: four projects at the University of Basel will each receive around EUR 2 million over a five-year period to pave the way for new discoveries. 👉 www.unibas.ch/en/News-Even...
- Incredibly excited to share that we've been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to reach new depths in our memory research! @erc.europa.eu #ERCCoG @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
- Reposted by Flavio DonatoHappy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting 📍 Barcelona, Spain 🗓️ May 11–12, 2026 Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor 🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki ‼️ Call for abstracts now open 🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/ #HippocampusGreen
- Reposted by Flavio DonatoYES! "to explain all human cognition, we inherently must include development". Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy - Ward - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Flavio Donato1/5 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...
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- Super proud PI moment today when my first PhD student Vilde Kveim received the Shepherd price for her PhD work at today’s Biozentrum symposium. So lucky to have started my lab with you, Vilde!! @biozentrum.unibas.ch @biozentrum-phd.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Flavio DonatoForelimb movement control at the basal ganglia - brainstem interface! Happy to finally share this work from me and @harsh-kanodia.bsky.social with Silvia Arber! @biozentrum.unibas.ch @fmiscience.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Flavio Donato1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce". Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536
