Neuroscientist @UCL | Visuomotor transformations in zebrafish | Bianco lab
#neuroscience #zebrafish #machinelearning
For our next monthly online #NeuroAI seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Kanaka Rajan @KanakaRajanPhD (Harvard & Kempner Institute).
🗓️Wed 13 Nov 2024
⏲️2-3pm GMT
Talk title: Brain-Wide Compositionality and Learning Dynamics in Biological Agents
ℹ️ Details and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neuro-ai-talk-series-tickets-902295800027
For our next monthly online #NeuroAI seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Chethan Pandarinath @chethan (Emory University and Georgia Tech)!
🗓️ Wed 12 June 2024
⏰ 2-3 BST
Talk title: "Probing neural population dynamics with recurrent neural networks"
ℹ️ Details and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neuro-ai-talk-series-tickets-920026172047
For our next monthly online #NeuroAI seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Katja Hoffman (Microsoft Research)
🗓️Wed 1 May 2024
⏰2-3pm BST
Talk title: "Generative models for video games"
ℹ️ Details and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroai-talk-series-tickets-838481198837
Check out our simple solution for imaging between the #zebrafish eyes (or other hard-to reach sample regions) during #lightsheet microscopy:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.05.588276v2
For our next monthly online #NeuroAI seminar, we are happy to be hosting Dr Clare Lyle (DeepMind)
🗓️Wed 13 March 2024
⏰3-4pm GMT
Talk title: "Maintaining Plasticity in Neural Networks"
ℹ️ Details and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroai-talk-series-tickets-838481198837?aff=oddtdtcreator
As the UCL #NeuroAI Monthly Seminar Series returns for 2024, we are happy to be hosting Dr James Whittington @djcrw (Stanford University / University of Oxford)!
🗓️Wed 14 February 2024
⏰2-3pm GMT
Talk title: "Unifying the mechanisms of hippocampal episodic memory and prefrontal working memory"
ℹ️ Details and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-neuroai-talk-series-tickets-115333525680
Save the date for our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, where we are excited to be hosting Prof. Thomas Nowotny @drtnowotny
(University of Sussex)
Talk title: "Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with EventProp in Spiking Neural Networks"
🗓️ Wednesday 18 Oct 2023
⏰2-3pm BST
ℹ️Details and registration:
https://eventbrite.com/e/ucl-neuroai-talk-series-tickets-115333525680
(Note that this replaces the event that was previously planned for 11th October, which had to be rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances)
We are very happy to announce the 4th UCL Annual #NeuroAI Conference, featuring leading speakers at the cutting edge of ML and neuroscience from around the world!
Mark your calendar:
🗓 Tue 28 Nov 2023
📍Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @SWC_Neuro
Registration is necessary - hurry up as places are limited!
Find out more, register, and submit your abstract for a lightning talk or poster at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-neuroai-annual-conference-2023-tickets-714443428527
For the next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are excited to be hosting Prof Surya Ganguli @sganguli (Stanford University)
Talk title: "NeuroAI from model to understanding: revealing the emergence of computations from the collective dynamics of interacting neurons"
🗓️ Wednesday 13 Sept 2023
⏰2-3pm BST
ℹ️ Details and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-neuroai-talk-series-tickets-115333525680
For the next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are excited to be hosting Prof Anna Schapiro
@annaschapiro (University of Pennsylvania).
Talk title: "Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time"
🗓️ Wednesday 12 July 2023
⏰2-3pm BST
ℹ️ Details and registration:
@cian
Interesting and helpful!
I'll also jump on the self-promotion wagon, mainly because I wonder if my old PhD findings could be related. A few years back we demonstrated (using some data and modelling) that some of the variables considered here 'fast' (eg [Ca2+]i in specific compartments) could in some cases be rather slow, especially when coupled with Na+ dynamics:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002319
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2017.00085/full
Neural activity has dynamics on ms-second timescales, but organism behaviour during learning is over seconds-mins. Existing plasticity models dont bridge this gap.
I wrote a review arguing for adding nonlinear slow-timescale variables to plasticity rules: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07801
The #NeuroAI Committee at UCL is excited to invite you to our very first tutorial/ #hackathon, which will be held on Monday, May 22nd, from 10am to 6pm at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, and focus on DeepLabCut. Places are limited, please sign up here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/events/2023/may/deeplabcut-neuroai-hackathon
My postdoc work at Isaac Bianco's lab is finally out on @eLife !
https://elifesciences.org/articles/78381
Combining #lightsheet volumetric functional imaging and a spiking network simulation, we were able to show that a simple connectivity motif in the #zebrafish #optictectum explains multiple features in ongoing population dynamics, their impact on trial-to-trial variability, and trends in experience dependent behavior.
It is a neat example of how #networkdynamics can explain why neuronal and behavioural responses vary, or how past activity sets the ever-changing background for new input (that, in turn, will make its own long-lasting splash)
Join us today, 2pm UK time!
Save the date of our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, where we are excited to be hosting Prof. Jakob Macke @jakhmack (University of Tübingen) for a talk on "Bridging machine learning and mechanistic modelling"
🗓 Wednesday 15 March 2023
⏰ 2-3pm GMT
ℹ Find out more and register here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/events/2023/mar/ucl-neuroai-talk-series-professor-jakob-macke
For the next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are excited to be hosting Prof. Malcolm MacIver (Northwestern University)
🗓 Wednesday 15 February 2023
⏰ 2-3pm GMT
ℹ Find out more and register here:
Thank you @Computingnature for a great talk!
A link to the recording is now available on our website:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/ucl-neuroai
The work featuring Facemap is here:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.03.515121v1
Did anyone try one of the DL-based non-rigid brain registration methods (eg VoxelMorph) with #fluorescence imaging data?
