(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬

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At least 2,500 applications for research funding have been denied so far this year, more than double the previous two years go.nature.com/3F8kBzT

Proposals for external project grants are due in 2 weeks! Share your proposals for exciting mathematical biology research for the opportunity to receive support from NITMB Learn more and submit proposals by Monday, March 31st - nitmb.org/research/exter…

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Interesting experiments! Navigating uncertainty: reward location variability induces reorganization of hippocampal spatial representations biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📣 As promised, here is our protocol paper on chemotagging! This new technique combines calcium imaging with chemogenetics to identify cell types in commonly used Miniscope recordings & can be used to tag ANY CELL TYPE! Read about the technique here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share that our paper is published in @Nature today! This incredible work was led by the amazing @IpshitaZ, one of the most inspiring neuroscientists I met during grad school. She has taught me so much about the pure love for science as well as the strength and…

superb!!

The Grossman Center is hosting an RNN Workshop this week! Join us in learning from keynote speaker Alexander Reyes, PhD from NYU, and other presenters. 🗓️ January 9-10th, 2025 📍 SBRI J461 Check out the full schedule here: neuroscience.uchicago.edu/rnn-workshop

Maintaining and updating accurate internal representations of continuous variables with a handful of neurons nature.com/articles/s4159…

Distance-tuned neurons drive specialized path integration calculations in medial entorhinal cortex cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Kariko's publishing record is not, IN ANY WAY, a rebuke of our impact-obsessed publishing system. Only in the HHMI Comic Universe are these Kariko papers low impact. In the real world this is a high prestige, difficult to achieve publishing record. And you can see if you read…

Not sure these are great examples (as pointed out by others too). Immunity has an IF in the 30s/40s and the others are in the 10-20 range! I agree with the sentiment of the tweet, but treating everything below CNS as low impact is also part of the problem...

How does the brain solve the problem of consolidating new information without interference with prior knowledge? In our recent paper we propose that sleep microstructure and hippocampal replay may offer a solution. Check this thread from first author and super start @hongyu_chang

The @NIH #BRAINInitiative hosted the BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop to explore opportunities enabled by the convergence of brain science and AI.  Check out the details on the BRAIN Blog go.nih.gov/XhSBlMw #studyBRAIN

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The director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health calls BRAIN a “high priority” but acknowledges that difficult decisions lie ahead if federal budgets remain flat. Learn more: bit.ly/4fiBLqD

Undergraduates and Chicago-area high school students: Today is your opportunity to explore the 2025 DSI Summer Lab program! Learn more at a virtual info session today at 5pm! datascience.uchicago.edu/events/summer-…

Looks like I will have some funding to hire a computational tech for ~6 months, starting super duper soon! Can be done remotely. Looking for good computational & programming skills with a strong interest in or knowledge of systems neuroscience/hippocampus. PLS SHARE + RT!