Highlights

Highlights

The Program in Memory Longevity was featured in UT Southwestern Center Times Plus!

News

  • Happy new year! 🍾

    • January: Welcome Asako and Yu!

    • January 20: We hosted a grand opening celebration at NS4 to mark the launch of the Program in Memory

    • January 21: We’re excited to welcome attendees to PML’s first Recruit Symposium. (event link) (agenda)

    • March - Quite a lot is happening in the lab!

      • UT Southwestern's Center Times Plus recently featured Prof. Attila Losonczy and the newly established Program in Memory Longevity at the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute. The article highlights how the program investigates the neural mechanisms underlying memory disruption and their connection to neurodegenerative disease — combining cutting-edge imaging, electrophysiology, and behavioral approaches to advance understanding of memory resilience across the lifespan. Read the full article →

      • Congratulations to Kevin, Satoshi, Asako, and the rest of the team for their paper accepted in Neuron! Read the article →

      • Welcome, Dana Dodd, our newest lab member!

    • 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!