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Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), a research institute empowered by @imec_int, @KU_Leuven and @VIBLifesciences.
Have you ever wondered how your brain processes what you see? Our work in press at Current Biology uncovered rules governing complex wiring of the visual cortex that underpins visual functions. @BoninLab @__NERF
Pls RT. Holiday gift from the lab out in Current Biology. Fantastic work by @xuhan083 on the functional-anatomical organization of "higher-order" visual circuits in the mouse cortex. Funded by @VIBLifeSciences @__NERF @FWOVlaanderen. Click through Xu's posting for the story.
Have you ever wondered how your brain processes what you see? Our work in press at Current Biology uncovered rules governing complex wiring of the visual cortex that underpins visual functions. @BoninLab @__NERF
📢 New paper out in Nature! The Hoekstra lab at Harvard and Farrow lab at NERF reveal how a brain switch is tuned by evolution to control freezing vs fleeing in two sister species of deer mice. 👏 Huge congratulations to the entire team nature.com/articles/s4158…
New from the Urban Lab: PyfUS! An open-source Python toolkit for analyzing whole-brain fUS data—now with single-voxel clustering for fine-scale insights. Just published in Neurocomputing. 🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.neuc… 🛠️ Code: github.com/OpenfUS/PyfUS
In a new essay in The Transmitter, Karl Farrow & Katja Reinhard make the case for evolutionary thinking in systems neuroscience. Comparative approaches = deeper insight into brain function. Read the full essay: thetransmitter.org/systems-neuros… ✨ Artwork by Eoin Ryan
New research from the Farrow and Bonin labs at NERF, just published in Current Biology, reveals how the intricate dendritic architecture of midbrain neurons helps detect and compute critical motion cues, like approaching predators or fleeing prey. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…
Latest paper from the Urban lab shows functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging reliably tracks neuronal activity with good spatial precision! 🎯 Congrats to the team! @OpenfUS 👏 direct.mit.edu/imag/article/d…
📸 Scenes from NERF Retreat 2025! A full day of science, posters, art, and community—capped with dancing 🎉 Big thanks to the @BoninLab for putting it all together. Here's a glimpse 👇
Exciting news: @Boninlab & Pierre Vanderhaeghen, with Franck Polleux (Columbia), receive @SimonsFdn SFARI funding to study how early synaptic development in SYNGAP1 mutants shapes brain circuits & behavior in autism. tinyurl.com/54ywzxm9
Congratulations to Dr. Simone Marcigaglia on defending his PhD today! 👏 🎓 Simone developed a novel microfluidic catheter aimed at bypassing the blood-brain barrier.
🎶 Throwback to Quiz Night two weeks ago! Our NERF delegation may not have made it to the podium, but team spirit (and Disney knowledge!) was strong 💪 Big thanks to the PhD Association for organizing such a fun night. We're already looking forward to the next edition!
A new study co-led by Pedro Gonçalves introduces a powerful approach to analyzing neural and behavioral data using masked VAEs, handling neural encoding, behavioral decoding and dimensionality reduction—all within a single model! cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Last week we celebrated Lies Deceuninck's PhD defense! 🥳 Under the title 'Knowing what to do', Lies presented her work on the neurophysiological basis of short-term memory. Thank you to all jury members and congratulations to Dr. Deceuninck! 👏
Two new studies from the @Boninlab reveal the complexity of the brain’s visual processing network and how it adapts to different states of arousal and behavior. 👁️ 🧠 Congratulations to @XuHan083, @KarolinaZSocha, and the rest of the team. 🙌 nerf.be/en/news#/news/…
We are thrilled to host Robert Ohlendorf from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Leuven today. At 2 pm, he will give a talk on molecular hemodynamic imaging. Join us 📅 today, Wed 4/12, at 2 pm 📍 ON5 auditorium
We’re ready for the official launch of NERF’s new Neurophysiology Expertise Unit. Led by Aslı Ayaz and Çağatay Aydın, this unit brings you state-of-the-art tools for in vivo neural activity measurement, circuit manipulation, and behavioral assays. nerf.be/en/our-researc…
Congratulations to Dr. Théo Lambert on successfully defending his PhD! 🎓 🎉 Théo developed new AI-based methods offering quick and automated analysis of 2D/3D-fUSi data. Well done, Theo, and thanks to the jury for lending their time, expertise, and insightful feedback.
I’m very excited to share our latest work diving into how axons survive injury and fuel their regeneration. This work is a collaboration between @LabMoons and @FarrowLab, with the invaluable help of @StevenBergmans @vandyckannelies @GroefLies. Check it out in @JCellBiol!
Axonal regeneration is an energy-demanding process. With transcriptomic and functional data, Masin et al. show that in Pten and Socs3 co-deleted retinal ganglion cells, axonal regrowth requires and is fueled by a local axonal upregulation of glycolysis. hubs.la/Q02RGMcq0
It's moving week! 📦 We're relocating from the imec campus to our brand new research space at Campus Gasthuisberg, just a few hundred meters away. nerf.be/en/news#/news/…
