NEWS

2024

  • January: Welcome Lidor Spivak, a new postdoctoral fellow co-advised by Professor Nathaniel Sawtell.
  • January: Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Tristan Geiller with his new laboratory at the Yale School of Medicine.
  • February: Welcome Luke Reynolds, a new optical engineer to the lab.
  • March: Our collaborative project with Franck Polleux’s and Tommy L. Lewis Jr.’s groups was published in Nature Communications. Congrats Kevin!
  • April: Congratulations to Margaret Conde Paredes for receiving the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD scholarship!
  • April: Congratulations to Asako Noguchi for receiving the Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship!
  • April: Congratulations to Ivan Voitov for receiving the Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship!
  • April: Our review on hippocampal learning modalities was published in the Annual Review of Neuroscience. Congrats Zhenrui!
  • July: Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Justin O’Hare with his new laboratory at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus!
  • July: Our paper on intracellular oscillations in hippocampal dendrites was just published in Nature Communications. Congrats Zhenrui and Kevin!
  • September: Our paper on inhibitory plasticity underlying replay generalization in collaboration with the Ivan Soltesz lab was just published in Nature Neuroscience. Congrats Zhenrui and Satoshi!
  • October: Welcome Hayley Bounds, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab.
  • October: Congratulations to Dr. Satoshi Terada for receiving a BBRF Young Investigator Award!

2023

  • January: Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Andres Grosmark with his new laboratory at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
  • January: Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. James Priestley with his new laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as an ELISIR Scholar.
  • February: Welcome to Jason Yong, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab.
  • February: Welcome to Yu Xin, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab.
  • February: Jack Bowler successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Bowler!
  • February: Welcome to Caroline Wilson, a new laboratory technician in the lab.
  • March: Our review on local circuit computation in hippocampal CA1 is available at Curr Opin Neurobiol. Congrats Tristan and James!
  • March: Congratulations to Abhishek Shah for receiving an NSF GRFP!
  • April: Welcome to Ivan Voitov, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab.
  • April: Welcome to Asako Noguchi, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab.
  • April: Our work on CA2/3 inhibitory control of sharp wave ripples during learning was published in Nature Neuroscience. Congrats Bert, Tristan, Andres, and Vivian!
  • June: Welcome Carl Shi, a new graduate student in the lab!
  • June: Welcome Atheer Musad, a new postbac through the CADRE program at Columbia!
  • June: All the best to Jack as he heads off to his postdoc at the University of Utah!
  • September: Welcome Margaret Conde Paredes, a new graduate student in the lab!
  • October: Our work on MEC/LEC navigational inputs to CA1 was published in Neuron. Congrats Jack!
  • October: Our collaborative project with Rene Hen’s group on the representations in the dentate gyrus influenced by adult-born granule cells was published in Neuron. Congratulations Andres!
  • October: Congratulations to Dr. Tristan Geiller for receiving The Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience.
  • November: Welcome Cliodhna O’Toole, a new research technician in the lab!

2022

  • January: Our work on local feedback inhibition control of hippocampal place field formation was published in Neuron. Congrats Sebi, Mohsin, Miki, Tristan, Adrian, Heike, Kevin, Fraser, Ana Sofia, and Anna.
  • January: Our work on CA1 dendritic dynamics reorganization by hippocampal sharp-wave ripples was published in Neuron. Congratulations Sebi, Heike, Fraser, and James!
  • January: Our review on dendritic plasticity and synaptic plasticity in vivo was published in Neuroscience. Congratulations Kevin and Adrian!
  • January: Our collaborative work with Rene Hen’s group on the parallel processing of sensory and spatial information in the dentate gyrus was published in Cell Reports. Congratulations Andres and Jack!
  • February: Bert Vancura successfully defended his PhD thesis (via Zoom). Congrats Dr. Vancura!
  • March: Our collaborative work with Franck Polleux’s group was published in Science. Congrats Justin for this paper, alongside Kevin, Stephanie, Miki, Sebi, Tristan, Adrian, and Vikas!
  • April: Our work on plasticity in CA1 representations during novel experiences was published in Neuron. Congrats James, Jack, and Sebi!
  • May: Congratulations to Stephanie Herrlinger for receiving a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund!
  • July: James Priestley has successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Dynamic and compressed memory coding in the
    hippocampus.” Congrats Dr. Priestley!
  • July: Congratulations to Justin O’Hare for receiving his NIH K99/R00 grant Notice of Award!
  • July: Congratulations to Andres Grosmark as a soon-to-be Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine!
  • July: Welcome Abhishek Shah, a new PhD student in our lab!
  • September: Welcome Tiberiu Mihaila, a new PhD student in our lab!
  • October: Our collaborative work with Duygu Kuzum’s group on designing a flexible and transparent electrode known as E-Cannula was published in Cell Reports. Congratulations Satoshi for the paper!
  • October: The collaborative review on sharp wave ripples was published in Nature Communications. Congrats Zhenrui! 
  • October: Welcome Eunji Kong, a new postdoctoral fellow in our lab! 
  • December: Zhenrui Liao successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Liao!

2021

  • March: Our collaborative work on alternating sources of perisomatic inhibition during behavior in collaboration with Ivan Soltesz’s group was published in Neuron. Congrats Jack, Satoshi, and Fraser!
  • July: Welcome George Zakka, the new staff associate!
  • August: Sebastian Rolotti successfully defended his PhD thesis (via Zoom). Congrats Dr. Rolotti!
  • August: Our collaborative work on single-cell target control of circuits in epilepsy models in collaboration with Ivan Soltesz’ group was published in Neuron. Congrats Fraser and Zhenrui!
  • September: Our collaborative work on vignetting correction for spatial transcriptomics images in collaboration with Erdem Varol, Liam Paninski, and Abbas Rizvi’s group was published in MICCAI 2021. Congrats Bovey and Stephanie!
  • October: Our collaborative work on fast, aqueous, and reversible tissue clearing in collaboration with the Dranovsky and Kandel groups was published in Cell Reports Methods. Congrats Adrian!
  • October: Our collaborative work on hippocampal axo-axonic cells during behavior in collaboration with the Huang lab, Buzsáki lab, and  Soltesz group was published in Neuron. Congrats Miki, Zhenrui, Tristan, and Bert!
  • October: Our paper on reactivation predicting consolidation of unbiased long-term cognitive maps was published in Nature Neuroscience. Congrats Andres and Fraser!
  • October: Our collaborative work with the Polleux Lab on the synaptic activity of Robo2 within hippocampal circuits has been published in Cell Reports. Congrats Miki and Sebi!
  • December: Our paper on local circuit amplification of spatial selectivity in the hippocampus has been published in Nature. Congrats Tristan, as well as Sebi, Bert, and Adrian!
  • December: Our paper on adaptive stimulus selection for consolidation in the hippocampus was published in Nature. Congrats Satoshi alongside Tristan, Zhenrui, Justin, and Bert!
  • December: Our collaborative work with the Soltesz, Deisseroth, and Schnitzer labs on the supramammillary regulation of locomotion and hippocampal activity was published in Science. Congrats Satoshi and Fraser!

2020

  • January: Our paper on the role of locus coeruleus in regulating hippocampal representations is published in Neuron. Congrats Ali and Tristan!
  • May: Our paper on hippocampal population dynamics supporting temporal associative (“trace”) learning, in collaboration with Stefano Fusi’s group is published in Neuron. Congrats Mohsin and James!
  • June: Ali Kaufman successfully defended her PhD thesis (via Zoom). Congrats Dr. Kaufman!
  • June: Our collaborative work with the Paninski lab on a zero-inflated gamma model was published in Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory. Congrats Andres and Fraser!
  • August: Welcome Bovey Rao, a new PhD student co-advised with the Gogos lab.
  • August: Our collaborative project with the Gogos lab and the Rizvi lab on studying molecular, cellular and circuit underpinnings of altered hippocampal function in mouse model of schizophrenia got funded by NIMH. 
  • August: Our collaborative Brain Initiative project with the Vaziri lab at Rockefeller to continue our joint efforts to develop and implement non-invasive, deep functional imaging technologies to study cortical and hippocampal ensemble dynamics has got funded. 
  • October: Our paper on large-scale 3D imaging of hippocampal inhibitory population dynamics, in collaboration with Yiota Poirazi’s group and Balazs Rozsa’s group is published in Neuron. Congrats Tristan and Bert!
  • October: Welcome Anna Tuttman, our new laboratory technician!
  • December: Our paper on large-scale in vivo imaging of hippocampal dentate gyrus network dynamics in epilepsy in collaboration with Ivan Soltesz’ group is accepted in Nature Communications. Congrats Fraser and Zhenrui!

2019

  • January: Our paper on hippocampal disinhibitory circuits is published in Neuron. Congrats Gergely and Wenke!
  • March: Our collaborative work on viral targeting cell types with the Zemelman lab at UT Austin  is published in Cell Reports. Congrats Professor Zemelman!
  • April:  Our collaborative work on subcortical control of hippocampal function by the zone incerta is published in Science. Congrats to Rita Nyilas, James Priestley and the members of the Nyiri/Freund lab in Budapest!
  • April:  Our collaborative work on large-scale, deep, non-invasive multiphoton imaging with the Vaziri lab (Rockefeller University)  is published in Cell. Congrats to the Vaziri lab and Fraser Sparks in the Losonczy lab!

2018

  • February:
  • May: Welcome Miklos Szoboszlay, a new postdoctoral fellow in our lab!
  • July: Welcome Bert Vancura, a new MD/PhD student in our lab!

2017

  • January: Our paper on in vivo characterization of hippocampal mossy cells with calcium imaging is published in Neuron. 
  • May: Jeff Zaremba successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Zaremba!
  • September: Collaborative work with the Gogos lab at Columbia on hippocampal place cell dynamics in a schizophrenia mouse model is published in Nature Neuroscience
  • October: Welcome Dr. Justin O’Hare, a new postdoc in our lab!

2016

2015

  • February: Congratulation to Jeff Zaremba on his NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship!
  • April: Jack Bowler got into the Neuro Graduate Program at Columbia – Congrats Jack!
  • May: Attila received the Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award at Columbia
  • July: Congratulations to Patrick Kaifosh on his successful thesis defense!
  • August: Welcome Dr. Andres Grosmark, a new postdoctoral fellow in our lab!
  • August: Welcome our new graduate students: Elizabeth Balough, Alexandra Kaufman, and Sebi Rolotti!
  • September: Welcome our new lab manager: Rachel Rampil
  • September: The lab receives NIH R01 grant in collaboration with Ivan Soltesz (Stanford)
  • October: The lab receives NIH Brain Initiative Award on a project “High-speed volumetric imaging of neuronal network activity at depth using Multiplexed Scanned Temporal Focusing (MuST)”  in collaboration with Alipasha Vaziri (IMP Vienna, Rockefeller University)

2014