Lisa Giocomo
@lisa_giocomo
Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University
Looking for neural data to analyze? You can find our electrophysiology and imaging data sets (+code/methods) on our lab website! Thousands of neurons, mostly from medial entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, recorded/imaged in behaving mice #openscience giocomolab.weebly.com/data-code-meth…
Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje is pursuing a cure for a deadly pediatric brain cancer – and reshaping our understanding of how cancer and brain development intersect: stanford.io/3ZoFkWP
Excited to see Mari Sosa and @MarkPlitt's recent paper highlighted! nature.com/articles/s4158…
New paper officially out! Congratulations to Mari Sosa - amazing work - and just before she sets off to UC Boulder to start her own lab!
How does the brain map where rewards are found? Stanford researchers @lisa_giocomo & Mari Sosa found that mice form adaptable hippocampal maps that track reward locations—offering insight into how memory, dementia & addiction relate to place and reward. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/locations…
Please spread the word! This is a great effort to improve communication of science benefits and discoveries - they are looking for suggestions (and writing help if interested!) publicusaresearchbenefits.com
Very much looking forward to sharing and talking science tomorrow at @FMIscience! Until then - trying to run off the jet lag 🙂
Good morning run in NYC! Followed by a great day of science @SimonsFdn
New lab alert!! 🚨 Emily heads off to start the Aery Jones lab! She’s a fantastic, creative and thoughtful scientist who is also an awesome mentor! If you have the opportunity to join her lab - don’t hesitate! I can’t recommend it enough!
I am thrilled to announce that the Aery Jones lab will be starting in January 2026 @UMBaltimore! I've accepted a position in the Department of Neurobiology and Medicine Institute for Neuroscience Discovery.
Just signed up for another marathon—so I’m relieved this is reversible😅 Interesting new research article suggests marathon running may temporarily reduce brain myelin. nature.com/articles/s4225…
HHMI Investigators engage in basic #science by decoding the language of life: a fundamental thrill from understanding how things work. Discovering the world around us is intrinsically part of what it is to be human, and there's still so much left to discover. Learn more about…
New home for bioRxiv!
Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science @openrxiv
Physically traveling through a room and imagining travel through the same room engage the same neural mechanisms (in humans!). Super cool paper I’m looking forward to reading 📖
8/ Memory-guided navigation engages structured hippocampal theta, which persists into imagination → Spatial memory & mental simulation share neural mechanisms. Thank you NIH funding, 1st author @m_seeber, amazing lab team, collaborators, & participants who made this possible!
The elegant structure of DNA never ceases to amaze me @CSHL
Looking forward to a day of science at @CSHL! Started my day with a sunrise run - such a beautiful campus
Congratulations to @HerberCharlotte on her beautiful thesis defense today! The MD world is very lucky to have you headed back to clinic soon but we will miss you! Excited to see where your future path takes you in research and medicine!
Congratulations to @johnhwen1 on your thesis defense! Amazing to see what you've accomplished over your PhD and can't wait to see where your journey takes you next!
Congratulations to Ben Sorscher on successfully defending your PhD thesis! It’s been a joy collaborating with you and @SuryaGanguli during your time at Stanford. Wishing you all the best in your next chapter - looking forward to seeing where your curiosity takes you!
New Dispatch with @cho_fs now out in @CurrentBiology on place cells in fish! Such a fun article to write :) Spatial representation: How fish know their place sciencedirect.com/science/articl… And check out the original article from ROLI group! nature.com/articles/s4158…