Neural tissue engineer and cognitive neuroscientist. Postdoc at the Cullen Lab (Penn Medicine). Interested in building functional neural circuits in vitro.
Joined April 2019
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Excited to release this preprint with @AnnaSchapiro and @stslab! Humans and recurrent neural nets can learn slow temporal statistics in the presence of fast timescale dependencies. tinyurl.com/mseu44un
They're proposing major changes to how scientific grants are awarded and administered in the US, and it all seems really bad -- do you want political appointees to award and revoke awarded grants at will? -- read & public comment by July 13th! elizabethginexi.substack.com…
Celebrating the acceptance of my first middle-author paper in neural tissue engineering with @D_Boufidis!
✨ I am beyond thrilled to share that our new paper has just been published in Advanced Materials Interfaces! We present the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗰𝘆𝘁𝗲–𝗠𝗫𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/admi.2025002…
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Excited to announce the 2nd Analytical Connectionism summer school!
How can we mathematically understand neural network models of higher level cognition?
Where: @FlatironCCN, New York
When: Aug 12-23, 2024
Info: events.simonsfoundation.org/…
Apply by May 17, travel awards available!
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More pictures from the celebration! Congratulations @VictorAcero20 again!!!
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Congratulations to @KyndallNicholas (@PennNGG/ @dkcullenlab/ @HHMINEWS) & @Eugenia_South (@UPennEM/ @PennUHL_) on winning @AARCPenn 2024 Women of Color Awards in recognition of their exceptional leadership & service to the community! tinyurl.com/4cp5dzcf
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Fellowship opportunity for ECRs <4y post-PhD. Engineering. 5 year funding. Significant advantage given to people from "underrepresented groups" (see below). Internal deadline of May 6. Comp neuro has done well recently in our dept. Email me if interested.
raeng.org.uk/research-fellow…
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1/ Today in Science, we train a neural net from scratch through the eyes and ears of one child. The model learns to map words to visual referents, showing how grounded language learning from just one child's perspective is possible with today's AI tools. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Neuron
Beyond hippocampus: Thalamic and prefrontal contributions to an evolving memory
cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
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Excited to say this is out with minimal adjustments and a more representative title: nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
The short description is in the thread below but in a sentence, we use game theory and multi-site lesioning to show neural activity does not intuitively map to function.
Preprint alert 🚨 “When Neural Activity Fails to Reveal Causal Contributions” with exceptional people @ShreyDixitAI @m00rcheh @KordingLab and @CCHilgetag
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
A thread below:
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Postdoc funding opportunity! But with a short turnaround. Internal processes in Oxford call for 1-page expressions of interest by next week (Feb 2). get in touch if interested.
Alongside our partners at the @royalsociety, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2024. The scheme provides support for international early career researchers wishing to develop research expertise with UK partners. Find out more: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fund…
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📣 Check out our latest episode!
Dr. Malin Parmar (@ParmarLab) from @Lund_Stem joins us to talk about her #neuroscience research and developing cell therapies for #ParkinsonsDisease. 🧠
Listen now: bit.ly/3U7Y5MF
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New paper out in @PLOSCompBiol. The best deep neural network models of visual cortex do not reduce representations to low-dimensional manifolds—instead, they benefit from high-dimensionality. Led by a fantastic student, @EricElmoznino. journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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Very delighted to share our work Deciphering cell states and genealogies of human hematopoiesis online today in @Nature (Accelerated Preview version). It is a really great collaboration of Weissman lab @JswLab and Sankaran lab @bloodgenes doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-0… 🧵(1/n)
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Summer Research Internships in Computational Neuroscience @FlatironCCN
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates: Spend a summer doing research at the Flatiron Institute in NYC!
Application deadline 2 Feb 2024:
apply.interfolio.com/137388
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Very interesting results concerning region-specific patterns of laminar gene expression in the context of the neocortical circuit supporting language, by @magsmaggiewong @sha_zhiqiang @ClydeFrancks & colleagues. Good to see the prominent role of SLIT genes
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Hi, thanks to Lynn Nadel & Sarah Aronowitz I wrote a book chapter on multiscale predictive representations that connect the past to the future, memory to planning.
There's still time to edit it & I'd love to read your comments!
Am I missing citations?
arxiv.org/abs/2401.09491
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Excited for Broad 2.0 aka the Bell Labs of Biotech!
Broad Institute cofounder Schreiber leaves to launch new research institution Arena BioWorks
Arena is designed to minimize the ‘inefficiencies’ of translational research: cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/…
ALT Michael Chambers, L. Keith Joung, Stuart Schreiber, Jim Breyer, Stephen Pagliuca, and Thomas Cahill in the Arena BioWorks labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Throwback to last year’s phenomenal conference at @CSHL on human brain development #organoids #assembloids — a superb gathering for this new field of multi-cellular models of the human nervous system & disease.
Thrilled about organizing another edition with Guo-Li Ming @UPenn_SongMing , in early December 2024, which promises to be even more exciting with an amazing lineup of speakers! 👇
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.a…
I'm back on Twitter/X and it's time for a good clean rant on the sociopolitical structure of science. #metascience (1/N)
My viewpoint doesn't so much reflect my own lack of success (which, fair) as it does the huge contrast in attention paid to the work of myself and others at UIUC vs. Penn, despite little or no difference in quality, or in some cases, better quality at UIUC. (13/N)