Lab successfully renews our R01 grant with NEI!!
Lab receives a CRCNS grant from NINDS in collaboration with Ben Scholl (University of Colorado) and Matthias Kaschube (Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies)!
Dr. Luna Kettlewell defends thesis! Congrats!
Luna's paper reporting spatiotemporal structure in early spontaneous activity is published in J. Neurosci!
Nate's paper on a common set of developmental changes across highly varied cortical areas is published in Cerebral Cortex.
Major updates coming! We’ve been busy… just not busy updating this site!
(We’ve had a PhD defense (congrats Haleigh!), 3 papers published (congrats Haleigh & Nate!), and two more on BioRxiv… stay tuned for details!!)
Haleigh’s paper is published in eLife!
Congrats Haleigh! A great achievement and the lab’s first research publication.
Haleigh publishes a Dispatch in Current Biology highlighting key new findings in the representation of luminance polarity (ON / OFF) in the visual system.
The first paper from our lab is now on BioRxiv! Led by super talented grad student Haleigh Mulholland, in collaboration with Bettina Hein and Matthias Kaschube. We show a striking degree of organization in inhibitory networks early in the developing cortex, prior to eye opening.
Tightly-coupled inhibitory and excitatory functional networks in the early visual cortex
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.457908v1
Starting to look like a real microscope!
New custom-built 2P rig under construction! Table - check! Laser #1 - check! Here we go!!
Moving to new, bigger lab space! Now we’re adjacent to other MDT-optical imaging labs making collaborations even easier!
Lab receives CRCNS US German research grant joint with computational and theoretical neuroscientist Matthias Kaschube to study origins of modular activity in the cortex.
Kartik join the lab as a post-doc. Welcome!
Clay was awarded a NIMH T32 training grant in Computational Neuroscience.
Clay joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome Clay!
Hailey and Matt join the lab as research technicians. Welcome!
Lab receives our first R01 from the National Eye Institute to study the mechanisms of large-scale network formation in the visual cortex.
Nate joins the lab as a post-doc. Welcome Nate!
Drishti leaves the lab to start Medical School at UMN. Congrats Drishti!
Casey joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Casey!
Paper describing organization of correlated spontaneous activity in early visual cortex is published in Nature Neuroscience! We show that millimeter-scale correlated networks exist much earlier than previously thought, and that these early networks are predictive of future visually-evoked responses.
Haleigh was awarded a fellowship on “Using computation to make breakthroughs in neuroscience.” Congrats Haleigh!
Manuscript reporting early organization of large-scale cortical networks titled "Long-range order from local interactions: organization and development of distributed cortical networks" posted on BioRxiv!
Lab receives Whitehall Foundation grant titled "Building cortical networks with spontaneous activity" !!!
Haleigh joins the lab as our first grad student!!
First in vivo images!!!
Laser: check! Neurolabware scope: halfway there...
Renovations are complete and our lab is ready!
Installing our first optical table...
Drishti joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Drishti!