Discussing recent systems neuroscience papers covering sensory, motor and cognitive issues

If you have any questions or would like to be added to the mailing list, contact  Camillo Padoa-Schioppa or Larry Snyder (WashU Neuroscience).

When: 12:00p, Fridays (11:45a for pizza!)
Where:
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) 10101, Medical Campus (unless noted below)
Organizers:  Dan Moran, Ilya Monosov, Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Larry Snyder

Note that individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.

2025 Spring Schedule

Yuma Kanazawa and Waleed Babar will help with organization issues. If you have questions about schedule, food, computer setup, and the like, please email them.

January 17, 2025

Sid Sivakumar (Moran lab, WashU Biomedical Engineering)

“The role of motor cortex in motor sequence execution depends on demands for flexibility” Nature Neuroscience (2024)

January 31, 2025

Miguel Barretto-Garcia (Padoa-Schioppa lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“The nematode worm C. elegans chooses between bacterial foods as if maximizing economic utility” eLife (2023)

February 7, 2025

Tianhong Tang (Monosov lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Astrocyte ensembles manipulated with AstroLight tune cue-motivated behavior” Nature Neuroscience (2025)

February 14, 2025

Timothy Crimmins (Tavoni lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Nonresponsive Neurons Improve Population Coding of Object Location” The Journal of Neuroscience (2025)

February 21, 2025

Fatemeh Didehvar (Franken lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Laminar Dynamics of Target Selection in the Posterior Parietal Cortex of the Common Marmoset” The Journal of Neuroscience (2024)

February 28, 2025

Yuma Kanazawa (Padoa-Schioppa lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Latent circuit inference from heterogeneous neural responses during cognitive tasks” Nature Neuroscience (2025)

March 7, 2025

Kepecs lab (WashU Neuroscience)

March 14, 2025 – NOTE Location: NRB 7101

JeongJun Park (Snyder lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Cell-type-specific manifold analysis discloses independent geometric transformations in the hippocampal spatial code”

March 21, 2025

Bo Jiang (Han lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus” Nature (2025)

March 28, 2025

Zach Berriman-Rozen (Chen lab, WashU Neuroscience)
Hugo Greenhill (Samineni lab, WashU Anesthesiology)

“Sequential transitions of male sexual behaviors driven by dual acetylcholine-dopamine dynamics” Neuron (2025)

April 4, 2025

Junxiao Hou (Padoa-Schioppa lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“A Neural Circuit Framework for Economic Choice: From Building Blocks of Valuation to Compositionality in Multitasking” bioRxiv (2025)

April 11, 2025

Elenoro Bano (Kepecs lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Prospective contingency explains behavior and dopamine signals during associative learning” Nature Neuroscience (2025)

CANCELLED – April 18, 2025

Monosov lab (WashU Neuroscience)

April 25, 2025

Ryan McGee (Tavoni lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Plasticity in inhibitory networks improves pattern separation in early olfactory processing” Communications Biology (2025)

May 2, 2025

Aritra Das (Franken lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Intermittent rate coding and cue-specific ensembles support working memory” Nature (2024)

May 9, 2025

Ziyan Li (Hiratani lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“A combinatorial neural code for long-term motor memory” Nature (2025)

May 16, 2025 – No meeting, CCSN mini-retreat
May 23, 2025

Keran Yang (Kepecs lab, WashU Neuroscience)

“Overwriting an instinct: Visual cortex instructs learning to suppress fear responses” Science (2025)

May 30, 2025

TBA