Eran Mukamel
@emukamel
Bridging computational neuroscience and epigenomics. Dad jokes, theology and geometry. Assoc. Prof. of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego.
Nice writeup in The Transmitter about false positives in neurogenomics thetransmitter.org/statistics/mem…
When we came to see our destroyed labs hit by an Iranian missile, we found that a piano had survived @WeizmannScience
Remember to adjust for multiple comparisons when searching for memory-encoding neuronal regulation! nature.com/articles/s4158…
As @emukamel and Yu point out, #methodsmatter. They are spot on here: nature.com/articles/s4158…
Why are older individuals more prone to neurodegenerative diseases? Very excited to share our new #bioRxiv from @JoeEcker. We study age-related epigenetic changes in the brain, highlighting on cell-type-specific transposon demethylation and TAD remodeling. We also present a deep…
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at @Columbia & academic career... 1/🧵
UCSD admitted an unexpectedly large class this Fall and apus is crowded. Thankfully the new signage helps... good luck crossing the street everyone! Maybe just stay in your office instead
Congrats to Hinton (who was a postdoc in Cognitive Science at UCSD!) and Hopfield, whose papers attracted (!) me to neuroscience as a physics student. Discipline boundaries are not real!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
TL;DR New preprint with discovery: many interneuron types in the fly visual system function as highly specific normalizers. x.com/SebastianSeung…
My new preprint attempts to explain the function of interneuron diversity in the fly visual system. The answer (or at least the beginning of it) falls in your lap once you have the connectome. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Wow
My new investigation for @newsfromscience: Did a top @NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's/Parkinson’s research for decades? Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah found to engage in scientific misconduct; 132 of his papers fall under suspicion science.org/content/articl…
Come join us in San Diego! A great department, a great public university, and the surfing is not bad (so I'm told)
My awesome department @UCSDCogSci is hiring THREE!!! Assistant Professors in any area of Cognitive Science. See job ad for details: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04016. I love my colleagues and the students are unbelievably talented and interdisciplinary minded. Join us!