Saray Soldado-Magraner

Our new paper is out! “Paradoxical self-sustained dynamics emerge from orchestrated excitatory and inhibitory homeostatic plasticity rules” pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… Amazing work with @DeanBuono @rodlaje @mikejseay THREAD! #paradoxicaleffect 1/10

Heartbreaking, powerful, and a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit. 💔🇸🇩 Grateful to be part of a community that stands together, learns together, and supports each other beyond borders. #Sudan #Solidarity #CaMinA #ScienceForChange

As we are waiting for our team to finalise the selection of this year’s participants, we would like to take the opportunity to create awareness on an issue that arose almost two years ago in Africa and has not received enough attention from the media: The civil war in Sudan. /n

Love for #ComputationalNeuroscience Can Also Be Your #Valentine! Our students left TReND CaMinA's Neuroscience SummerSchool #inspired and #grateful. Here’s a special video from our 2024 cohort with a beautiful message: "Thank you, TReND CaMinA, we love you!" #Neuroscience

What hides in the complex responses of prefrontal cortex neurons? How does this fascinating brain area implement advanced cognitive functions? Find this out in our manuscript, now published in #ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… [1/14]

🌍Exciting news! The 2025 TReND-CaMinA Course will be held in Lusaka, Zambia 🇿🇲 from July 7th–23rd. Dive into computational neuroscience and machine learning with us! 📅 Applications open: December 15th 🔗More info: trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/ Stay tuned & spread the word! 🧠✨

Our students got the chance to network during an e-event with @BlackInNeuro and researchers/grad students from @cmuneurosci @PittTweet and CNBC Part of our mission is to create a strong global scientific community. It is very exciting to see the first steps already taking place

Learning about dynamical systems and RNNs in a romantic way today🌹🌄 We hope our students will "fall in love" with computational neuroscience and continue their excellent work beyond the summer school!

Day 3 kicked off with a part we have been very excited about!🥳🤩 Researchers @mabuice @fredpckuo Saskia de Vries & Tom Chartrand from the @AllenInstitute have joined our team to train our students on working with their #opendata

What an amazing start for the course!!

As the students are settling we wanted to take the time to thank our sponsors for supporting us for a second year. This wouldn't have been possible without them! @AllenInstitute @HHMIJanelia @Meta @GoogleDeepMind @SimonsFdn @SWC_Neuro @cmu_africa @cmuneurosci @ucl

Our 2024 cohort is ready to start the journey. For the next 2 1/2 weeks our students and teaching team will work together and will dive into concepts of computational neurosceince, machine learning and open science! 🧠💻🤖 Have fun everyone!

TReND-CaMinA summer school applications are now closed⛔️ 🤯We received a mind blowing 1091 applications from over 40 African countries!!! Thanks to everyone who helped spread the word @AllenInstitute

One last week left to apply for the @trend_camina course. For more infos 👉 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina-c… Don't miss the opportunity of becoming a Caminero/a🚶‍♀️🚶 alongside the rest of us!!

🧠💻TReND-CaMinA summer school 🧠💻applications are open! Apply here👉🏼 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina-c… to join us in Rwanda this July. Undergrads, MSc's, PhDs and young researchers in the natural sciences or engineering (with an interest in neuro and ML) are encouraged to apply.

🎉Applications for the @trend_camina course just opened🎉 To apply 👉forms.gle/fTby9WpaHE716S… Application deadline 🗓️ 15th of February For more info on the course content, faculty, eligibility etc 👉 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina-c… Good luck to the applicants🤞🤞

🚨Awesome news alert🚨 Our Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning Course is back!! When: 8-24th July 2024 Where: CMU-Africa campus, Kigali, Rwanda Applications open: 15th January 2024 Applications close: 15th February 2024 For news on the course follow @trend_camina

People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It…

Thanks to Maryada and @giacomoi for this collaboration. It was very exciting to see that @saraysoldado cross-homeostatic plasticity learning rules led to self-perpetuating activity and balanced excit/inhibit in a self-organizing manner in neuromorphic hardware.