Physicist by training, working in computational neuroscience 🧠🔬💻 at the @dzne. Interested in how neural dynamics and learning shape brain function and behavior, using modeling and data analysis.
Modeling, science, open source, philosophy, photography. 🔍🚶🏻♂️
Previous posts are archived at @pixeltracker.
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In 2026, Valentin Braitenberg would have celebrated his 100th birthday.
To commemorate this occasion, the Bernstein Network will present the next Valentin Braitenberg Award during the #BernsteinConference 2026.
Nominations are open until April 30 👉 https://bernstein-network.de/en/network/awards-and-initiatives/valentin-braitenberg-award/
If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the
"Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples"
at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.
WIth great teachers from Naples, Lausanne, EMBL and also our lab.
Announcing the already-open applications for the 2026
Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
Dates 11-23 May 2026
Application deadline 2 Feb.
Please boost, with apologies for duplicates.
“Analysis of Biological Data with Python” started today for our biology bachelor students 🧬🐍
If you are interested in learning Python for data analysis, the course slides are freely available here:
https://github.com/bpucker/teaching/tree/master/WBIO-A-07
#Python #DataAnalysis #Biology #OpenEducation #OpenScience #Teaching #Bioinformatics #BigData #DataScience
@PuckerLab
When: January 14th, 2026, 15:00-18:00 CET Where: BCCN Berlin Lecture Hall (Philippstr. 12, Haus 6, 10115 Berlin) & Live-streamed via Zoom Registration: Registration will open in December 2026. Program: 15:00 - Virtual meeting opens 15:15 - Prof. Dr. Klaus Obermayer (head of the program) - What is Computational …
Is there a #mathematical framework for abrupt change? Christopher Zeeman was one of the key figures behind #CatastropheTheory, a topological approach to discontinuous behavior that later informed much of today’s work on #TippingPoints. Just came across his elegant 1976 paper, outlining his core ideas:
🧠 New preprint by Zhong et al. proposes a #synaptic mechanism for #chunking in #WorkingMemory.
Using short-term #plasticity and synaptic augmentation, their model shows how items can be temporarily suppressed and later retrieved as chunks, increasing effective capacity w/o increasing simultaneous activity.
Very excited that our whole-mouse-brain analysis pipeline - DELiVR - is published now at Nature Methods. With DELiVR, we built an open-source, easy-to-use pipeline for analyzing image stacks from cleared mouse brains.
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02245-2
Code: https://github.com/erturklab/delivr_cfos
Docker containers, test dataset, handbook: https://www.discotechnologies.org/DELiVR/
Generating training data for training deep-learning-based tools is time consuming. The DELiVR pipeline facilitates this process as demonstrated in this study on detecting c-Fos+ cells or microglia in the brain, following tissue clearing and imaging with light-sheet microscopy.
Bernstein Network
Gaspar Jekely
Boris Barbour
Boas Pucker
Moritz Negwer