Janelle Pakan

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Neuroscientist, interested in the interactions between sensory and motor systems - with a soft spot for the cerebellum.
Janelle PakanSep 2, 2024
Carsen Stringer (she/her)Sep 1, 2024
Place cells found in #zebrafish in freely swimming + imaging experiments. #navigation #neuroscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07867-2
A population code for spatial representation in the zebrafish telencephalon - Nature

Using a tracking microscope for freely moving animals, the authors discover a population of place cells in the zebrafish brain and demonstrate that a non-amniote brain is capable of integrating allothetic and idiothetic information to create a neural map of space.

Nature
Janelle PakanSep 2, 2024
Matteo CarandiniSep 2, 2024

Applications to ERC Advanced grants are up 38% in one year! What's happening?

https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/applications-erc-advanced-grants-2024-facts-and-figures

Applications for ERC Advanced Grants 2024: Facts and figures

The ERC Advanced Grants 2024 call closed for applications on 29 August 2024. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:

ERC
Janelle PakanJul 29, 2023
Carsen Stringer (she/her)Jul 29, 2023
Make your next discovery using #Rastermap, a visualization method for large-scale neural data in #python. Paper now out: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.25.550571v1 (CLICK ON THE GIF) #neuroscience
Janelle PakanApr 7, 2023
LINdoscopeMar 29, 2023
๐Ÿ”ฅ DEADLINE EXTENDED! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Apply until 17 April for our 2-week EMBO #neuroscience practical course on in vivo #imaging (including miniscopes and 2P), #optogenetics, #behaviour, and data #analysis in Magdeburg, Germany: https://meetings.embo.org/event/23-lindoscope#Register
We have fantastic speakers lined up including Karel Svoboda, @TrackingActions, Daniel Dombeck, or @antihebbiann. Travel grants and on-site childcare are available!
https://masto.ai/@lindoscope/110038172926419911
LINdoscope: Neuroimaging and data analysis

Advanced optical techniques ushered in a new era of modern neuroscience, enabling basic scientists to interrogate neural activity in behaving animals in unprecedented molecular and anatomical detail.โ€ฆ

Janelle PakanMar 17, 2023
Show threadLINdoscopeMar 17, 2023

There will also be time for some fun and hanging out (see pics from 2021). Previous students had this to say: "honestly, LINdoscope blew my mind. I learned way more than I had even hoped, and formed amazing relationships [...] I would HIGHLY recommend this course to others"

LINdoscope 2023 organisers are Alessio Attardo, Oliver Barnstedt (@obarnstedt), Sanja Mikulovic, and Matthis Prigge from LIN Magdeburg, as well as Janelle Pakan (@PakanLab, OvGU Magdeburg) and Anne Petzold (@neuroadept, UKK)

Janelle PakanMar 17, 2023
Show threadLINdoscopeMar 17, 2023

Our focus will be on teaching you how to do surgeries and successfully running your own single-photon head-mounted miniscope, two-photon head-fixed imaging, and freely moving optogenetics experiments, and being able to synchronise and analyse this data with behavioural tracking.

We are truly excited for a great line-up of speakers and instructors this year, including Karel Svoboda, @TrackingActions, Daniel Dombeck, @antihebbiann, Valentina Emiliani, Sabine Krabbe, Yunyun Han and more!

Janelle PakanMar 17, 2023
LINdoscopeMar 17, 2023
Are you interested in learning in vivo #calciumimaging and #optogenetics, combined with #behaviour #analysis? We are now accepting applications for our 2-week (4-15 Sep) intensive EMBO Practical Course LINdoscope: Neuroimaging and data analysis. APPLY NOW: https://meetings.embo.org/event/23-lindoscope#Register
LINdoscope: Neuroimaging and data analysis

Advanced optical techniques ushered in a new era of modern neuroscience, enabling basic scientists to interrogate neural activity in behaving animals in unprecedented molecular and anatomical detail.โ€ฆ

Janelle PakanJan 7, 2023
Andrew PerforsJan 7, 2023

How to slow down scientific progress

"Leo Szilardโ€”the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Projectโ€”also wrote fiction. His book of short stories, The Voice of the Dolphins, contains a story โ€œThe Mark Gable Foundation,โ€ dated 1948."

You can see the full thing at this link, but I've also taken a screenshot of an excerpt. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ ๐Ÿค” ๐Ÿ˜ข

https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science

How to slow down scientific progress, according to Leo Szilard

โ€œScience would become something like a parlor game. There would be fashions. Those who followed the fashion would get grantsโ€

The Roots of Progress
Janelle PakanDec 17, 2022
Show threadMatteo CarandiniNov 19, 2022
..and here is the forecast, indicating that Neuroscience will end in 2058.
Janelle PakanDec 5, 2022
Luiz PessoaDec 4, 2022

๐——๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€?

Join the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon Dec 8, noon EST-US for discussion with Matthew Larkum's lab (paper below).

Join @diceyjennings and I moderating discussion!

Here's the paper:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001651

#neuroscience

And for more Philosophy & Neuroscience Salon discussions check here:

https://www.youtube.com/@neurosciencephilosophysalo5410

Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment

The authors of this Essay examine whether action potentials cause consciousness in a three-step thought experiment that assumes technology is advanced enough to fully manipulate our brains.