Laureline Logiaco @LaurelineLogiaco@qoto.org
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
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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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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!
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. 🇳🇱🤝🇵🇹
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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.
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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.
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Our paper "Prior movement of one arm facilitates motor adaptation in the other" is out @ #JNeurosci.
We show that the direction of a prior movement of the other arm is an effective cue to allow adaptation to interfering force fields. The brain seems to use kinematic information in learned sequences involving different body parts to adjust movements of the same sequence.
Also our data is pretty.
#motorlearning #motorcontrol #motoradaptation @sensorymotor @neuroscience
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We’re looking for African researchers keen to represent their community on our editorial board.
Does this sound like you? Apply to join our Board of Reviewing Editors! https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/5b024d5b/elife-latest-applications-open-for-new-reviewing-editors-in-africa?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃
(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely
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Please advertise our 3rd annual Autumn School on
Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI
25th-31st Oct 2023
in Ulster University, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Hybrid in-person/online
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Looong post with Cool Neuroscience Papers
As I scroll through my #ResearchGate feed, here's a bunch of recent (March->May 2023), not-to-be-missed papers and preprints in the #Hippocampus / #Navigation field:
(please add to the list if I missed something!)
Superficial-layer versus deep-layer lateral entorhinal cortex: Coding of allocentric space, egocentric space, speed, boundaries, and corners
Learning to predict future locations with internally generated theta sequences
Hippocampal beta rhythms as a bridge between sensory learning and memory-guided decision-making
Direct Entorhinal Control of CA1 Temporal Coding
Making Sense of the Multiplicity and Dynamics of Navigational Codes in the Brain
The temporal and contextual stability of activity levels in hippocampal CA1 cells
Increased cortical plasticity leads to memory interference and enhanced hippocampal-cortical interactions
Convergence of location, direction, and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleus
Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation
Oscillation-coordinated, noise-resistant information distribution via the subiculum
Successor-Predecessor Intrinsic Exploration
Transforming a head direction signal into a goal-oriented steering command
On the results of causal optogenetic engram manipulations
Computational models of episodic-like memory in food-caching birds
Spatial learning impairments and discoordination of entorhinal-hippocampal circuit coding following prolonged febrile seizures
Mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3
Firing rate adaptation affords place cell theta sweeps, phase precession and procession
Three separable roles for context in breaking environmental symmetries for place cells
Mice can learn a cognitive map based on a stable start location and self-motion signals
Grid cell disruption in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease reflects reduced integration of self-motion cues
The hippocampus of the common marmoset is a GPS, but G is for gaze
Contribution of dorsal versus ventral hippocampus to the hierarchical modulation of goal-directed action
Schema cell formation in orbitofrontal cortex is suppressed by hippocampal output
Dynamic and stable hippocampal representations of social identity and reward expectation support associative social memory in male mice
Specific patterns of neural activity in the hippocampus after massed or distributed spatial training
Anchoring of grid fields selectively enhances localisation by path integration
Goal Choices Modify Frontotemporal Memory Representations
Hippocampo-cortical circuits for selective memory encoding, routing, and replay
The subiculum encodes environmental geometry
Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus
Boundary vector cells in the goldfish central telencephalon encode spatial information
Congrats to all authors! You rock 🤟 (and I wish you were advertising your work here on Mastodon 💜 - if you are, let yourself be known!)
Special thanks to Youcef Bouchekioua for his Researchgate activity!
Disclaimer: I haven't read those (yet)
Theoretical neuroscientist trying to connect with other scientists, listen and learn.
Joined Nov 2022
