Lab news
March 2022
New paper published in Nature Communications with Nadav Ben-Shushan, Nimrod Shaham (equal contributors) and Mati Joshua: Link.
Fixational drift is driven by diffusive dynamics in central neural circuitry.
August 2021
A new manuscript, by Torgeir Waaga (*), Haggai Agmon (*), Valentin A. Normand, Anne Nagelhus, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, and Yoram Burak is available on bioRxiv:
Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues. Link
* Equal contributors.
Our work on 3d grid cells, in collaboration with the Ulanovsky lab (Weizmann), Yonatan Aljadeff (Weizmann and UCSD), and Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew University) is published in Nature:
Locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex. Link
March 2021
Two postdoctoral fellow positions in theoretical neuroscience (March 2021).
February 2021
A new manuscript, by Richard Gardner, Erik Hermansen, Marius Pachitariu, Yoram Burak, Nils A. Baas, Benjamin J. Dunn, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser is available on bioRxiv:
Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. Link
A new manuscript, by Nadav Ben-Shushan, Nimrod Shaham, Mati Joshua, and Yoram Burak is available on bioRxiv:
Fixational drift is driven by diffusive dynamics in central neural circuitry. Link
November 2020
Burak and Moser labs awarded ERC Synergy grant. Additional information is available here and here.
Information on Ph.D. and post-doctoral positions
August 2020
A manuscript by Haggai Agmon and Yoram Burak is published in eLife:
A theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex accounts for artificial remapping and grid cell field-to-field variability. Link
March 2020
Congratulations to Noga Mosheiff for receiving her Ph.D. in physics!
A new manuscript, by Haggai Agmon and Yoram Burak, is available on bioRxiv:
A theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex accounts for artificial hippocampal remapping and individual grid cell field-to-field variability. Link
January 2020
We will present a poster at the Cosyne 2020 meeting (Denver, CO, USA, February 2020):
A central source for fixational eye motion
(Nadav Ben-Shushan, Nimrod Shaham, Mati Joshua, and Yoram Burak)
Yoram Burak will speak at the Cosyne workshop titled “15 years of grid cells”.
For details see:
http://www.cosyne.org/c/index.php?title=Workshops2020_1_04. (day 1)
http://www.cosyne.org/c/index.php?title=Workshops2020_2_04. (day 2)
September 2019
Congratulations to Neta Ravid Tannenbaum for receiving her Ph.D. in computational neuroscience!
August 2019
A manuscript by Noga Mosheiff and Yoram Burak will be published in eLife:
Velocity coupling of grid cell modules enables stable embedding of a low dimensional variable in a high dimensional neural attractor. Link
Congratulations to Noga Mosheiff for receiving a second competitive postdoctoral fellowship, awarded by the Israeli Council for Higher Education.
July 2019
Haggai Agmon will present a poster at the SfN 2019 (Chicago, October 2019):
Bidirectional coupling of grid cell and place cells as a mechanism for robust spatial representation across multiple maps. Link
Gily Ginosar (Ulanovsky Lab, Weizmann Institute) will present the work:
Representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex of flying bats. Link
June 2019
A new manuscript, by Noga Mosheiff and Yoram Burak, is available on bioRxiv:
Velocity coupling of grid cell modules: stable embedding of a low dimensional variable in a high dimensional neural attractor. Link
May 2019
Congratulations to Noga Mosheiff for receiving a competitive postdoctoral fellowship from the Hebrew University.
February 2019
Congratulations to Nimrod Shaham for receiving his Ph.D!
Nimrod Shaham is now a Swartz postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Brain Science, Harvard University.
January 2019
We will present several works at the Cosyne 2019 meeting (Lisbon, Portugal, February 2019):
Posters
A theory of inference amid fixational drift explains the contrast paradox in vernier hyperacuity
(Nadav Ben-Shushan and Yoram Burak)
Bidirectional coupling of grid cells and place cells as a mechanism for robust spatial representation across multiple maps
(Haggai Agmon and Yoram Burak)
Biologically plausible mechanism for noise resilience in continuous parameter working memory
(Nimrod Shaham and Yoram Burak)
Talk
Gily Genosar (Ulanovsky lab, Weizmann Institute) will present a contributed talk:
Representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex of flying bats.
(Gily Genosar, Johnatan Aljadeff, Yoram Burak, Haim Sompolinsky, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky)