Lab updates

Saghar Mirbagheri successfully defends PhD thesis!

On "Prediction Content Shapes Population Representations in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex".

Anna Li successfully defends PhD thesis!

On "Causal and distributed mechanisms of cortical computation".

Brain-wide topographic coordination of rotating waves

Ye et al., Science.

Neuropixels Opto: Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

In Nature Methods.

Prefrontal to ventral tegmental area dynamics drive contingency degradation

With the Stuber lab, in Nature.

Large-scale electrophysiology at single-spike resolution

A review with Josh Siegle in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

The midbrain reticular formation in contextual control of perceptual decisions

Jordan Shaker's thesis work, in Neuron.

A flexible quality metric for electrophysiological recordings

Preprint with a new quality metric, and data across brain regions and species.

Simons Foundation supports IBL 2.0

Extending the International Brain Laboratory core to new collaborations.

Rachel Yin named a Goldwater Scholar!

Visualizing and identifying electrophysiological cell types in vivo

In Nature Communications.

Benchmarking Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting Models on Neural Activity

Lu et al., arXiv preprint.

Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings

In Neuron.

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making

Findling et al., Nature.

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour

The International Brain Laboratory, Nature.

Global and local origins of trial-to-trial spike count variability in visual cortex

Li et al., bioRxiv preprint.

Nick promoted to Associate Professor

Reproducibility of in-vivo electrophysiological measurements in mice

The International Brain Laboratory, eLife.

Jordan Shaker successfully defends PhD thesis!

On "The midbrain reticular formation in flexible decision-making".

Rachel Yin wins a Mary Gates Scholarship and a Simons SURFiN fellowship

DREDge: robust motion correction for high-density extracellular recordings across species

Windolf et al., Nature Methods.

Simultaneous mesoscopic measurement and manipulation of mouse cortical activity

Matveev et al., bioRxiv preprint.

Anna Li wins an NIH F31 fellowship

Pinpoint: trajectory planning for multi-probe electrophysiology and injections in an interactive web-based 3D environment

Birman et al., eLife.

Kenneth Yang wins a Mary Gates Scholarship

For the Pinpoint 'co-pilot' extension.

Data architecture for a large-scale neuroscience collaboration

The International Brain Laboratory, Nature Methods.

A stable, distributed code for cue value in mouse cortex during reward learning

Ottenheimer et al., eLife.

Jordan Shaker wins an NIH F30 fellowship

For work on the midbrain reticular nucleus in vision and decision-making.

A scale-dependent measure of system dimensionality

Recanatesi et al., Patterns.

Kai Nylund wins a Mary Gates Scholarship

For visualization work in Pinpoint.

Anna Bowen wins an HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship

NSF CAREER Award

Five years of support for work on distributed spatial neural dynamics.

The importance of accounting for movement when relating neuronal activity to sensory and cognitive processes

Zagha et al., Journal of Neuroscience.

Cortical state dynamics and selective attention define the spatial pattern of correlated variability in neocortex

Shi et al., Nature Communications.

CellExplorer: A framework for visualizing and characterizing single neurons

Petersen et al., Neuron.

Go with the FLOW: Visualizing spatiotemporal dynamics in optical widefield calcium imaging

Linden et al., J R Soc Interface.

Sensory coding and the causal impact of mouse cortex in a visual decision

Zatka-Haas et al., eLife.

David Ottenheimer wins an NIH F32 fellowship

Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

Steinmetz et al., Science.

Striatal activity topographically reflects cortical activity

Peters et al., Nature.

Top-down coordination of local cortical state during selective attention

Van Kempen et al., Neuron.

Dan Birman wins a Washington Research Foundation fellowship

Cortical state fluctuations during sensory decision making

Jacobs et al., Current Biology.

Pew Biomedical Scholar

Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience

Arousal modulates retinal output

Schroeder et al., Neuron.

Distributed coding of choice, action, and engagement across the mouse brain

Steinmetz et al., Nature.

New perspectives on dimensionality and variability from large-scale cortical dynamics

Engel et al., Curr Opin Neurobiol.

High-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cortex

Stringer et al., Nature.

Laminar Segregation of Sensory Coding and Behavioral Readout in Macaque V4

Pettine et al., PNAS.

The lab joins the International Brain Laboratory

Nick elected as its twenty-second member, on the Physiology Working Group.

Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brain-wide population activity

Stringer et al., Science.

The impact of bilateral ongoing activity on evoked responses in mouse cortex

Shimaoka et al., eLife.

Distinct structure of cortical population activity on fast and infraslow timescales

Okun et al., Cerebral Cortex.

Next Generation Leader, Allen Institute for Brain Science

The lab opens at the University of Washington