Rochefort Lab

Featured: @rochefortlab.bsky.social, Eve Corrie, Coco Newton, @manuelamarescotti.bsky.social, Tomi Akingbade, and Rachel Horne.

Working with rats, & not happy w MRI based brain atlases from adult males? We've got you! High resolution (2photon), 3D atlases (female rats) are now available in @brainglobe.info. Plz start using these atlases & let us know your feedback for the official release!
brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem...

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Join our next keynote lecture! Nathalie Rochefort @rochefortlab.bsky.social, Professor at the University of Edinburgh, will give an exciting talk at our Institute in Martinsried.

📅 February 3 at 11:00 a.m.
📍 Room NQ105, Martinsried

Art by @somedonkey.bsky.social

New preprint from the lab! 🚀
We find that hippocampal OLM interneurons provide a circuit-level inhibitory feedback signal that dynamically controls when and where behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity can occur.
Feedback welcome!

Great opportunity here! For amazing science as well as proximity to the calanques 😅

New @who.int Global Status Report on Neurology calls for urgent action to address the growing burden of neurological disorders & to promote brain health for ALL. @arinatam.bsky.social co-authored Ch4: Effective, timely & responsive diagnosis, treatment & care. Full report:
edin.ac/43r3P7U

Epilepsy medication could control seizures in children with rare brain disorder Scientists have been studying GRIN2B-Related Disorder, a rare condition that affects the nervous system of young kids.

SIDB recently featured in STV News. Using a GRIN2B rat model, Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser and Katerina Hristova showed an epilepsy drug can reduce seizures.

Check it out ⬇️
edin.ac/3Kz2Mw1

@edinburghmedschool.bsky.social @patrickwildcentre.bsky.social
@edinburghuni.bsky.social

Steve Shirley’s legacy of autism philanthropy The late pioneer for remote work and women in tech is remembered by U.K. autism researchers and advocates for her support.

In August, U.K. software entrepreneur Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley died at age 91. The nation’s autism researchers and advocates remember the tech trailblazer for her philanthropic legacy.

By @lauren-schneider.com

www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/in-...

Well done Danai! Congratulations!

We present our preprint on ViV1T, a transformer for dynamic mouse V1 response prediction. We reveal novel response properties and confirm them in vivo.

With @wulfdewolf.bsky.social, Danai Katsanevaki, @arnoonken.bsky.social, @rochefortlab.bsky.social.

Paper and code at the end of the thread!

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Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes - Nature Repetitive head impacts from contact sports are associated with brain inflammation, vascular damage and neuron loss that are independent of hyperphosphorylated tau pathology.

Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes

in @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase? RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.

“We don’t see an epidemic of autism, but we see an ‘epidemic’ of diagnoses”

A fresh journalistic look at the rise in autism that brings together perspectives from the researchers & the autism community
🧪 #MedSky

@nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?!

#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Sensory thalamus function, plasticity and neuromodulation in health and disease For each of the many sensory channels through which animals perceive the world, sensory thalamus is an important processing station whose role lies be…

Sensory thalamus function, plasticity and neuromodulation in health and disease.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

RatDISCO, a tissue clearing and immunolabelling protocol for large rat brains. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670723v1

We are incredibly honored to receive continued support from the Simons Foundation in our mission to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders

1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro

Same here, happy to help/provide information for anyone interested in relocating in Scotland /UK

Exploring brain circuits, one cell type—or more— at a time This issue of Neuron, with accompanying papers in Cell, Cell Genomics, Cell Reports, and Cell Reports Methods, contains studies describing methods for access to neuronal and non-neuronal cell types wi...

"Exploring brain circuits, one cell type—or more— at a time" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Bosiljka Tasic & @gordfishell.bsky.social ‬
@cp-neuron.bsky.social

France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe Macron and von der Leyen expected to announce protections for researchers seeking to relocate amid Trump’s crackdown

France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe

1/10 Our latest research, led by @martijnselten.bsky.social, identifies a mechanism through which Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons regulate their activity in the #cortex. This is the story @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41... ⬇︎ 🧵 @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Just 2 days to go before #BNA2025! **AMAZING** programme!
meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/prog...

Delighted to be speaking at a session on diversity and inclusion in British neuroscience (Mon, 9.30am, Room 4) with
@srikipedia.bsky.social (chair), @landreae.bsky.social & @diegobaptista.bsky.social

And that’s a wrap! What an amazing #neuroday2025 we’ve had. Thank you to all participants inc speakers, posters & exhibitors for showcasing the fantastically broad range of research taking place across our vast @edinunineuro.bsky.social community. 🧠🧠🧠

EU to double funding to attract US scientists fleeing Trump The European Commission acknowledges its interest in the ‘opportunity’ generated by the cuts and obstacles promoted by the Republican administration

english.elpais.com/internationa...

A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback - Nature Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavour representations in the amygdala to support learning from delayed postingestive feedback.

How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later?

Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala.

📄: nature.com/articles/s41...

Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D!

Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Thrilled to share the latest paper from the lab! Huge congrats to first author Dr. Celine Drieu and the amazing team of Ziyi Zhu, Sarah Elnozahy, Joy Wang, Aaron Wang, and Kylie Fuller! Lots of fun stuff in the paper so check it out - and let us know what you think :)