News
December 2023
I really like Mark Humphries writing and am really honored that Andrea and Vikram's discoveries about dynamic tuning of social dopmaine signals made his 'best-of' list for 202
November 2023
Andrea and Vikram's paper on Social dopamine signals published in Nature.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/09/when-needs-compete-love-trumps-thirst
https://www.miragenews.com/when-needs-compete-love-trumps-thirst-1093050/
https://neurosciencenews.com/dopamine-need-neuroscience-23980/
June 2023
Congrats to Jason for crushing his A exam!
June 2022
Jesse appears on the Animal Behavior Podcast.
March 2022
Vikram's collaboration with Alison Duffy and Adrienne Fairhall on dopaminergic evaluation of birdsong is published in Cell Reports.
February 2022
Anindita's discovery that the subthalamic nucleus is part of the song evaluation system is published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
June 2021
Our work imaging the mouse tongue in action is published in Nature.
July 2020
Ruidong defended his thesis to a packed zoom audience! Ruidong is headed to MIT to take a deep dive into RNNs with Mehrdad Jazayeri
May 2020
Jesse' talk, "Male songbirds turn off their self evaluation system when they perform for females," at VIDA virtual dopamine conference.
March 2020
Teja defended his thesis with plenty of slow-mo videos of mice reaching and licking. Congrats Teja! He's off to the Salk Institute to learn some genetic tricks with Martyn Goulding.
October 2019
After an amazing visit to Penn I was honored to be interviewed by the MindCore team.
https://mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/2019/10/09/jesse-goldberg-md-phd/
July 2019
Ruidong and Andrea in a video at Neuron
July 2019
Vikram Gadagkar, the lab's first postdoc, accepts a facutly position at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University.
May 2019
Andrea crushes her A exam!
Brendan is awarded a GFRP award from the NSF.
Congrats to Ruidong, Pavel, Andrea, Tori, Archana, Kamal, and Alex for their Neuron paper, “Songbird ventral pallidum sends diverse performance error signals to dopaminergic midbrain.”
January 2019
Ruidong is headed to Woods Hole this summer for a Grass Fellowship. He will work on “Fast escape behavior and its neural basis in the octopus.”
November 2018
Congrats to Vikram for receiving the prestigious Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award from the Society for Neuroscience.
July 2018
Congrats to Pavel, Kamal, and Nikil for their paper, “Vocal Learning in songbirds requires cholinergic signaling in a motor cortex-like nucleus,” published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
April 2018
Congrats to Don and Ruidong for their paper, “Place preference and vocal learning rely on distinct reinforcers in songbirds,” published in Scientific Reports.
March 2018
The Goldberg Lab receives a grant for dystonia research.
February 2018
Congrats to Ruidong for receiving the FENS, IBRO-PERC and The Brain Prize stipend for participation in the Brain Conference on Computational Neuroscience of Prediction.
August 2017
Congrats to Ruidong for being selected to the Junior Scientist Workshop on Neural Circuits and Behavior at Janelia.
July 2017
Congrats to candidate Ruidong on crushing his A exam.
June 2017
Congrats to Vikram on his K99/R00 grant, “How is Performance Evaluation Encoded in the Brain?” awarded by NIH.
August 2016
Congrats to Pavel on his NRSA grant, “Identifying the roles of the basal forebrain cholinergic system in motor sequence learning,” awarded by NIH.
December, 2016
Congrats to Vikram, Pavel, Ruidong, Alex and Eliza for their Science paper, “Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds.”
Here is some coverage of the paper in the popular press:
http://www.voanews.com/a/3631618.html
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-neurochemical-feedback-loop-that-keeps-birds-in-tune
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/12/dopamine-reward-helps-songbirds-learn-hit-right-notes
March 2016
Congrats to Vikram on his Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Congrats to Master Teja on crushing his A exam.
September 2015
The Goldberg lab receives NIH DP2 New Innovator Funding, for the proposal "Identifying pathways for motor variability in the mammalian brain"...Do you know where your LMAN is?
The Goldberg lab receives NIH R01 support for the proposal, "Neural mechanisms of performance evaluation during motor sequence learning"...When you hit the right note during piano practice it feels rewarding, right? But does it activate dopamine the same way that primary rewards like food and juice do?
March 2015
Vikram is selected to give a talk at Cosyne 2015!
February 2015
Our first research paper is published!
Origins of basal ganglia output signals in singing juvenile birds. J Neurophysiol. 2015 Feb 1;113(3):843-55.
January 2015
New postdoctoral fellow Pavel Puzerey joins the lab! Welcome Pavel.
August 2014
The Goldberg lab gets BRAIN funding! Thank you President Obama. Together with Paul McEuen (Cornell University Applied Physics) and Ethan Minot (Oregon State University) the Goldberg lab received NSF BRAIN support. The project, titled, "Stretchable Graphene Transistors for High Signal, High Channel Count Neural Recording," will attempt to leverage recent advances in graphene nanofabrication to develop a new electrode-tissue interface.
June, 2014
Jesse is named a Pew Biomedical Scholar!
We have finally decided to use single board RIOs from National Instruments to run our mouse training system. Eight joystick-endowed homecages per acquisition computer. Thanks Jeff Steele from NI for your advice!
May, 2014
Teja discovers that mice can learn a center-out joysticks task in computer controlled home cages.
December, 2013
Neuron publishes our preview of Rich Mooney and Constance Scharff’s amazing finding that disruption of the human-language associated gene FoxP2 leads to a pathological increase in vocal variability … in songbirds!
September, 2013
Teja joins the lab as a graduate student. Movin’ on up!
May, 2013
Jesse is named a Klingenstein Fellow in the Neurosciences!
April, 2013
Our first neuron in a singing bird. Ok, NOW the lab is open for business!
February, 2013
Vikram puts his graduate work on quantum states of liquid Helium behind him and joins the lab as its first postdoc.
January, 2013
Lab renovations are complete! Time to unpack some boxes.
September, 2012
Welcome Tejapratrap Bollu. The first member of the lab. As technician, he is using his mad engineering skills to click ‘purchase’ tabs on a bunch of websites.
September, 2012
Arrival at Cornell University. What to do while the lab space is renovated? Maybe I’ll teach Neural Circuits for Motor Control in Health and Disease NB4320.