Mark Brandon
Neuroscientist at McGill University
www.markbrandonlab.com
- Reposted by Mark BrandonAll theory is wrong until verified by data. Greatly indebted to @mhyaghoubi.bsky.social, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, @douglasresearch.bsky.social for finding the hippocampus encoding reward prediction! Grateful to my advisor @cpehlevan.bsky.social, @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social. #RL #hippocampus
- Nature research paper: Predictive coding of reward in the hippocampus go.nature.com/49mB13V
- I’m very happy to share the latest from my lab published in @Nature Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward. Full text here: rdcu.be/eY5nh
- Fantastic work!
- Coincidence of thalamic HD signal and retrosplenial visual input is detected in the Presubiculum! 🎯 This may be the neuronal basis for landmark anchoring of the HD signal. Pleased to announce the VOR is now available elifesciences.org/articles/92443 Congrats first author Louis Richevaux 🙌
- New paper from the lab, now out in @PNASNews tinyurl.com/bdeh2bs8 - ADN neurons (head direction cells) project to MEC inhibitory cells, with a preference for VIP-expressing cells - MEC VIP cells increase cfos expression during, and are required for, a spatial memory task
- How good is your place cell model? Come benchmark yours against real data - nearly 70K CA1 rate maps in various geometric shapes across weeks - collected and curated in my lab by the great @jquinnlee.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social
- The dataset and code for our recent paper in Neuron (tinyurl.com/yc48d6vr) is online now! The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
- Reposted by Mark BrandonThe dataset and code for our recent paper in Neuron (tinyurl.com/yc48d6vr) is online now! The data is available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/1486...) and code on Github (github.com/jquinnlee/ge...). Big thanks to @markbrandonlab.bsky.social and @atkeinath.bsky.social on this effort! #neuroskyence 🧠
- Reposted by Mark BrandonCongrats Dr Gilberto R Vite! 🎉🍾 Gilberto successfully defended his PhD, on the role of the thalamus in coordinating activity in the entorhinal cortex. Big thanks to his committee, Laura Colgin, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, Stuart Trenholm, and @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social 🙏🙏
- Reposted by Mark BrandonGrateful to @apnews.com for covering our recent @pnas.org article on how London taxi drivers plan routes: apnews.com/video/how-th... #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Mark BrandonNew paper out in Cell Reports! Led by @susieyufeng.bsky.social, we found that chronic epilepsy in mice drives distinct synchronization deficits in hippocampus and MEC, with early changes in HPC and late-onset changes in MEC that align with progressive memory impairment. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Mark BrandonHere is the MIT Tech Review article covering the data collection linked to this new Phd Opportunity at our new International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign: www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/13/1...
- 🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
- Reposted by Mark BrandonWhat are the brain’s “real” tuning curves? Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking. We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things. 1/21🧵
