Dec 2024: Congratulations to Samvitti Sharma for her acceptance to Carnegie Mellon’s Fifth-year Master’s Program in the Department of Computer Science!
July 24: New paper out from the lab! Check our new paper at Nature Communications: link to the paper
Apr 24: Congrats to Jade Toth who will be attending Columbia University’s neuroscience PhD program and Aaron Zeng who will be attending MIT’s EECS PhD program this fall!
Mar 2024: Congratulations to Aaron Zeng for his acceptance to several engineering PhD programs including: MIT and Georgia Tech!
Mar 2024: Congratulations to Jade Toth for her acceptance to several neuroscience PhD programs including: Brown, CMU, UC Berkeley, Columbia, U of Chicago, Stony Brook, Northwestern, and UCSD!
Feb 2024: Congratulations to Abe for being awarded the NIH-funded Neural Computation Undergraduate Research Fellowship from CMU!
Jan 2024: Two of our abstracts have been accepted to COSYNE this year! Check out our posters: 1-059 “The functional role of diverse cortical responses for network dynamics and task performance” and 3-102 “Dynamic gating of perceptual flexibility by diverse cortical responses.” See you in Lisbon!
May 2023: Lab receives first RO1 from NIDCD!
April 2023: Jade and Olivia will present our work at Auditory SPLASH at the University of Pennsylvania! Check out their posters here: http://hosting.med.upenn.edu/hearing/wp-content/blogs.dir/76/files/sites/76/2023/04/2023.4.SPLASH.Posters.pdf
Mar 2023: Jade will present our work at COSYNE in Montreal this year! Check out his poster on “Dynamic gating of perceptual flexibility by non-classically responsive cortical neurons” here: COSYNE2023 Program Book, Poster 1, 1-029.
Jan 2023: Congratulations to our PI, Michele Insanally, for being awarded the Geraldine Dietz Fox Young Investigator Award from ARO. Find out more about her award here: https://aro.org/awards/aro-young-investigator-award/
Aug 2022: Congratulations to Priya Agarwal for her acceptance to William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine!
July 2022: Excited to present our work at FENS this year! Be sure to stop by both Blake Sidleck and Badr Albanna’s poster! See you in Paris!
May 24 2022
Congratulations to Jade Toth for her acceptance to Neuromatch Academy!
April 28th 2022
Congratulations to Dylan Leonard for his acceptance to the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School!
March 21 2022
Check out Michele's contributed COSYNE talk "The synaptic origins and functional role of diverse cortical responses during behavior" here: COSYNE talk
Jan 28 2022
Can't wait to present our work at COSYNE this year! Check out our contributed talk on combining in vivo whole-cell recordings during behavior and spiking RNN models to understand the synaptic origins and functional role of diverse cortical responses. See you in Lisbon! https://www.cosyne.org/main-meeting
Sept 3 2021
Excited to present our work at the Bernstein Conference this year! Check out our contributed talk on Sep 23rd 2021 11:45am EST.
https://www.bernstein-network.de/en/bernstein-conference/2021-online/program
Jul 9 2021
Check out Michele’s dispatch for Current Biology linking non-sensory neurons to decision-making:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221006709?dgcid=author
Jun 29 2021
Congratulations to Dan Saeed for his acceptance to the Biomedical Masters Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine!
Jun 29 2021
Congratulations to Trisha Gupta for her acceptance to Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA!
Jun 10 2021
Check out Michele’s interview with UC Berkeley’s Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute:
https://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/being-flexible-phd-alum-michele-insanally-studies-plasticity-and-learning-in-the-auditory-system/