Laureline Logiaco @LaurelineLogiaco@qoto.org
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
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Today I'm launching something near and dear to my heart...VERY near and dear 😂 -- a podcast project with my phenomenal favorite neuroscientist (& wife), @analog_ashley !
On "Change, Technically" we're coming to your ears to share tales of who gets to be technical. We dig into STEM pathways & how leaders can learn from psych and neuroscience to think about cultivating innovation. We share our stories from classrooms to software teams. Plus new Cat & Ashley lore!
@elduvelle_neuro Thank you Eleonore, you are too kind! And yes, I definitely hope we'll have many occasions to interact scientifically and beyond in the future 😍
It's been hard to find the words, but here goes: I have been given the wonderful opportunity to start as an assistant professor at Colorado University Anschutz campus in July 2025. That also means opportunities for postdocs & grad students interested in models of motor circuits (https://simonsfoundation.org/people/laureline-logiaco/).
This is part of a multi-year effort of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics to hire several professors in computational neuroscience. So, if you are a graduate student and this is your area of interest, don't hesitate to apply (https://cuanschutz.edu/graduate-programs/neuroscience/faculty-and-research)!
I am very lucky to join a strong community of experimental neuroscientists with many overlapping interests, & excited about further contributing to neuroscience research. I really feel that recent experimental & modeling advances-notably on the motor side- are leaping us forward!
I'm thankful to many who supported me on my journey: colleagues at ENS, Sorbonne University, EPFL, Columbia, and MIT; Jonathan Michaels who is a wonderful panel coorganizer; & mentors A. Hantman C. Moss, C. Machens, A. Arleo, E. Procyk, W. Gerstner, S. Escola, L. Abbott, I. Fiete; @SimonsFdn, ...
It is an immense privilege to do research for a living. I'll do my best to contribute in ways that I genuinely feel can push our communal knowledge, & to create a positive working environment. I'll set up a lab website soon; until then don't hesitate to contact me if interested!
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How can you be a better leader and mentor?
In our last #ECR webinar, three PIs shared their experiences and insights on leadership and mentorship, focusing on the practices that led them to succeed in their roles. #AcademicChatter
https://youtu.be/Or9Bb78_wAg
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Despite all their hype in AI, we found that Transformers do not outperform #Cellpose for cellular segmentation tasks: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.06.587952v1
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Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Neuroscience at #HHMIJanelia
November 17 - 22, 2024
Are you a postdoc doing neuroscience? Have you not yet had an occasion to be invited to an external seminar? Do you want an opportunity to come to MIT to present your research and explain why it is exciting? Please apply!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xY3KhPOnvqvasUXZuIiWL8v_zUeHa1tJy0qUy-PnpS4/edit
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I'm a neuroscientist and group leader of the Flexibility in Circuits and Behaviour lab at SISSA, Italy. My lab studies how innate behaviours can be flexibly adjusted to contextual information, and how this correlates with changes in visual and behavioural encoding. We're a systems neuro lab with a neuroethological angle, and aim to identify general principles of how essential, very fast and stereotyped behaviours/circuits can be flexibly and quickly modulated. 🐁
www.reinhardlab.org
The mastodon community seems to have grown, so I'm giving it another try and hope for many stimulating inputs and discussions! 🧠😊
At #BernsteinConference2023 & interested in motor control? Visit poster III C06 (Thu, 12:30).
Sunny Duan, Ila Fiete & I will present a model that instantiates hypotheses about how different learning mechanisms in M1, cerebellum & integrative cortex help tackle challenging control tasks
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The conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) is starting now and you can live stream it on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Wm...
#neuroscience #psychology #AI #cognitivescience
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New* preprint from the lab! 🎉
Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.28.514163v2
These findings raise the intriguing possibility that plasticity within the cerebellar nuclei (and not just the cortex!) has the capacity to support well-timed sensorimotor learning.
Nice collaboration with Robin Broersen, Chris De Zeeuw et al. 🇳🇱🤝🇵🇹
@NicoleCRust @vineettiruvadi It seems to me that such definitions become tricky when the best description/model of a system may involve a very large number of variables (e.g. for the light switch, should the state of all the electrons at different times be considered variables?). Wouldn't changing the spatiotemporal description scale of the model drastically impact the conclusions about causality in this framework?
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Pressing the gas pedal causes the car to move forward
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Beautiful work from Hidehiko Inagaki's team @mpfneuro
led by Shouvik, showing that cell-type specific synaptic plasticity is required for learning a motor timing task. Manipulating synaptic plasticity in vivo, specially with cell-type precision, is such a powerful approach.
@elduvelle_neuro Computational (but experiment-loving), mammals, motor, cognitive, control, network dynamics.
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Welcome to all! ❤️🐀
Potential new followers: can we try something out?
- if you're a #Neuroscientist (of any status, yes, undergraduate students can be neuroscientists), could you answer with your neuro 'categories': Experimentalist, Computational, Philosopher, Fly, Human, Rodent, Whale, Tetrodes, Calcium imaging, fMRI, EEG, etc. This is so that I (and possibly others) can put you in a List! I'll share my lists once they have grown enough 😀
- if you're not a Neuroscientist, this account will probably not follow you, but you are totally free to follow it, and also to tell us about you and any questions you might have about neuroscience!
- if you want to learn about neuroscience, I will try to post beginner-level explanations with the hashtag #NeuroForNewbies. Just an experiment...
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Check out our new paper, led by Chris Angeloni, that links efficient coding to auditory perception:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40477-6
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Hi all! I'm a neuroscience postdoc studying information seeking and curiosity *in mice* in Richard Axel's lab at Columbia. I'll be on the academic job market this fall(!!!). Excited to be here.
@neurojojo@c.im We have the same one ;-)
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
