Michèle Insanally@InsanallyM

New Yorker • Neuroscientist • Formerly @UCBerkeley @Columbia @NYUniversity

 University of Pittsburgh
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Joined August 2020
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New paper out in @NatureComms! Combining in vivo cell-attached, extracellular, and whole-cell recordings during behavior with a spiking RNN we show how a diversity of neural response types contributes to network function and task performance. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Contributions of cortical neuron firing patterns, synaptic connectivity, and plasticity to task...

Nature Communications - How synaptic plasticity rules lead to diverse neural responses in a spiking neural network model remains poorly understood. Here, the authors show how a diversity of...

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CosyneMeeting@CosyneMeeting
18 Oct 2024
Do you want to promote an inclusive and diverse @CosyneMeeting? Join the 2025 Cosyne DEIA Committee! We need students, postdocs, and faculty to help! For questions, contact @lukesjulson or @denisejcai. Please RT! cosyne.org/#DEIA
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Ya'el Courtney, PhD@ScienceYael
18 Oct 2024
Exciting news! 🎉 @HHMINEWS Gilliam Fellowship applications opened yesterday. If you're a 2nd or 3rd yr PhD student (& U.S. citizen) passionate about science & building an inclusive scientific community, check out my application guide! 🌐🔬 #HHMIGilliam yaelcourtney.com/resources-a…

HHMI Gilliam Fellowship Application Guide (From a Gilliam Fellow) | Ya'el Courtney — Ya'el Courtney

A detailed walkthrough of every component of the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship application — from the equity and inclusion statement to the community engagement plan — written by a three-year Gilliam...

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Tania Barkat@tania_barkat
18 Oct 2024
We have an opening for a postdoc position. Research questions will be in the field of auditory systems neuroscience, with the broad goal of dissecting the neuronal circuits for sensory processing, perception, and learning. For more info, check brainsoundlab.com

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SueYeon Chung
@s_y_chung
13 Sep 2024
The call for #Cosyne25 workshop proposals is now live! cosyne.org/workshops-call Deadline: October 4th, 2024 Your workshop chairs this year are myself and @g_lajoie_ Please RT! @CosyneMeeting @EngelTatiana @thefrankslab
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@Nature
9 Oct 2024
Not for the first time, all Nobel Prizes in scientific disciplines this year have been awarded to men
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor@IshmailSaboor
10 Oct 2024
Replying to @Jared_Boyce
We’ve never had a single Black science laureate, ever. Its typically not discussed because its commonplace, a known, a given. As more doors of access are opened to us to reach for the upper echelons of science, I hope this changes one day…
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Sharing b/c: 1) If you're part of an underrepresented group & picked up on this - you're not imagining it. 2) It's sad to hear trainees describing familiar challenges. We can & must do better. These interactions tell you a lot about a field's culture. Let's improve it 3/3
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Marlene Cohen@marlenecohen
8 Oct 2024
Our lab has SEVEN presentations on the last/best day of SfN. Come start your day with us in S106, and spend the afternoon at posters G27-G31. We've got vision, audition(!), learning, memory, sequential decisions, disease models, and lots of neural populations. See you there!
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We're coming to the home stretch of #SfN2024 #SfN24 ! As you finalize your schedules for Tuesday and Wednesday, make sure to add two posters from @aolab_neuro:
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Mark A Nicholas@Markolas11
9 Oct 2024
Hey if you are still around #Sfn24 this afternoon and interested in cell type-specific cortex and striatum concurrent recordings during trial and error learning, come check out our work @YttriLab @SfNtweets #sfn2024
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
9 Oct 2024
Kanaka Rajan @KanakaRajanPhD sat down with @OliviaGieger to discuss how art can help explain complex ideas without diluting the science. thetransmitter.org/craft-and…

How neuroscience comics add KA-POW! to the field: Q&A with Kanaka Rajan

The artistic approach can help explain complex ideas frame by frame without diluting the science, Rajan says.

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Stop by our posters at SfN this year! @SfNtweets
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Vallentin Lab@LabVallentin
3 Sep 2024
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Black In Neuro 🧠@BlackInNeuro
23 Jul 2024
On Thursday August 1 we will be back with one of our most popular days of #BINW24. 🧠 NeuroRacism is all about the ways in which racism within our society can be perpetuated through neuroscience. This year we build on this premise with a panel discussion. ✊🏾✨ 🧵(1/2)
#NeuroRacism flyer with dynamic sky blue background with fists raised at the bottom. There is a circle with the heading Thursday, August 1. Below that in the circle text read: “Tune into our panel discussion on the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion and taking action towards its reprioritization. Don't forget to use the hashtag #NeuroRacism when discussing the event on social media!". The Black In Neuro logo is in the bottle left corner with text "#BINW24".

ALT #NeuroRacism flyer with dynamic sky blue background with fists raised at the bottom. There is a circle with the heading Thursday, August 1. Below that in the circle text read: “Tune into our panel discussion on the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion and taking action towards its reprioritization. Don't forget to use the hashtag #NeuroRacism when discussing the event on social media!". The Black In Neuro logo is in the bottle left corner with text "#BINW24".

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✨So fortunate to have mentored these two exceptionally talented junior researchers! Farewell to Jade Toth who is heading to the Neuroscience PhD program @Columbia and Aaron Zeng who is off to the EECS PhD program @MIT this fall! Can't wait to see what they do next!
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We’re making a $600 million gift to the country’s 4 historically Black medical schools - which will help diversify the medical field, address racial health and wealth equity, & save lives. bloombg.org/4fyWbwz

Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools' endowments

Michael Bloomberg committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools through his organization Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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New paper out in @NatureComms! Combining in vivo cell-attached, extracellular, and whole-cell recordings during behavior with a spiking RNN we show how a diversity of neural response types contributes to network function and task performance. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Contributions of cortical neuron firing patterns, synaptic connectivity, and plasticity to task...

Nature Communications - How synaptic plasticity rules lead to diverse neural responses in a spiking neural network model remains poorly understood. Here, the authors show how a diversity of...

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✨✨✨Big thanks to Badr Albanna, Jade Toth, Olivia Lombardi, Trisha Gupta, Saba Shokat Fadaei, @Froemkelab @briandepasquale @KanakaRajanPhD @kishoreneuro
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Had an awesome time keynoting for the Auditory GRS! Thanks to @laurenkreeger and @MittelNote for organizing! They are such superstars! 💫 grc.org/auditory-system-grs-…
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