News and Events

    • January: Our protocol for visually guided in vivo single-cell electroporation was published in Nature Protocols. Congratulations to all those who contributed over the years, with special thanks to Kevin and Asako!

    • February: Our intranet based behavior software, behaviorMate, was published at eLife. Congratulations Jack, George, and others!

    • April: Congratulations to Atheer Musad for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

    • April: Our work on distal tuft dendrites predicting place cell properties in collaboration with the Polleux lab was published in Neuron. Congratulations Justin!

    • April: The Soltesz Lab’s review in collaboration with the Losonczy Lab on endocannabinoid signaling in the hippocampus during animal behavior was published in Neuron.

    • April: The Losonczy Lab will be moving later this year to the O’Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern in Dallas. More details to follow soon!

    • May: Congratulations to Cliodhna O’Toole, who will be joining the Columbia University Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program in the fall!

    • May: Congratulations to Atheer Musad, who will joining the Rutgers University Ph.D. Program in the fall!

    • May: Congratulations to Charan Santhirasegaran, who will be joining the Columbia University Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Program in the fall in the Losonczy Lab!

    • June: Welcome back to Gergely Turi, Ph.D.!

    • August: Welcome Rudramani Singha as a new Data Scientist!

    • August: We have officially started operations at the O’Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern!

    • September: We have multiple Open Positions.

    • The Losonczy Lab, Nusser Lab, and Spiegel Lab received a $12 million Synergy Grant from the European Research Council!

    • January: Welcome Lidor Spivak, a new postdoctoral fellow co-advised by Professor Nathaniel Sawtell.

    • January: Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Tristan Geiller with his new laboratory at the Yale School of Medicine.

    • February: Welcome Luke Reynolds, a new optical engineer to the lab.

    • March: Our collaborative project with Franck Polleux’s and Tommy L. Lewis Jr.’s groups was published in Nature Communications. Congrats Kevin!

    • April: Congratulations to Margaret Conde Paredes for receiving the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Ph.D. scholarship!

    • April: Congratulations to Asako Noguchi for receiving the Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship!

    • April: Congratulations to Ivan Voitov for receiving the Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship!

    • April: Our review on hippocampal learning modalities was published in the Annual Review of Neuroscience. Congrats Zhenrui!

    • July: Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Justin O’Hare with his new laboratory at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus!

    • July: Our paper on intracellular oscillations in hippocampal dendrites was just published in Nature Communications. Congrats Zhenrui and Kevin!

    • September: Our paper on inhibitory plasticity underlying replay generalization in collaboration with the Ivan Soltesz lab was just published in Nature Neuroscience. Congrats Zhenrui and Satoshi!

    • September: Congratulations Eunji Kong for receiving the Korea National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship!

    • October: Welcome Hayley Bounds, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab.

    • October: Congratulations to Dr. Satoshi Terada for receiving a BBRF Young Investigator Award!

    • December: Our paper on the synaptic basis of feature selectivity in collaboration with the Polleux and Lin Labs was published in Nature. Congrats Kevin, Zhenrui, and Satoshi!