2023-2024
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!!)
2021
December
Haleigh’s paper is published in eLife!
Congrats Haleigh! A great achievement and the lab’s first research publication.
September
Haleigh publishes a Dispatch in Current Biology highlighting key new findings in the representation of luminance polarity (ON / OFF) in the visual system.
September
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
July
Starting to look like a real microscope!
May
New custom-built 2P rig under construction! Table - check! Laser #1 - check! Here we go!!
January
Moving to new, bigger lab space! Now we’re adjacent to other MDT-optical imaging labs making collaborations even easier!
2020
December
Lab receives CRCNS US German research grant joint with computational and theoretical neuroscientist Matthias Kaschube to study origins of modular activity in the cortex.
August
Kartik join the lab as a post-doc. Welcome!
Clay was awarded a NIMH T32 training grant in Computational Neuroscience.
June
Clay joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome Clay!
Hailey and Matt join the lab as research technicians. Welcome!
February
Lab receives our first R01 from the National Eye Institute to study the mechanisms of large-scale network formation in the visual cortex.
2019
May
Nate joins the lab as a post-doc. Welcome Nate!
February
Drishti leaves the lab to start Medical School at UMN. Congrats Drishti!
2018
December
Casey joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Casey!
October
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.
August
Haleigh was awarded a fellowship on “Using computation to make breakthroughs in neuroscience.” Congrats Haleigh!
June
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!
May
Lab receives Whitehall Foundation grant titled "Building cortical networks with spontaneous activity" !!!
April
Haleigh joins the lab as our first grad student!!
February
First in vivo images!!!
Renovations are complete and our lab is ready!
Installing our first optical table...
November
Drishti joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Drishti!