Dan Feldman
@danfeldman.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at UC Berkeley, studying cortical circuits, coding, plasticity, and autism. www.feldmanlab.org
The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Huge turnout at #NoKings in Berkeley today!
Marla Feller@mfeller.bsky.social · 4mo agomad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley
New preprint on sensory cortex dysfunction in Scn2a+/- mouse. Profoundly degraded sensory tuning and maps in S1--most dramatic of any ASD model. And rescued in post-critical period adults with CRISPRa. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Degraded sensory coding in a mouse model of Scn2a-related disorder and its rescue by CRISPRa gene activation
Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in SCN2A , a sodium channel gene expressed in cortical pyramidal (PYR) cells, lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by autism, intellectual disabi...
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Congrats to Teresa Puthussery, who is a terrific circuit-systems neuroscientist at Berkeley, on receiving the MacArthur award!
Anna Vlasits@annaintegrated.bsky.social · 10mo agoSo excited that a retina neurobiology colleague was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award! Congratulations Teresa Puthussery! news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...
Representing @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #Neuroscience chair @danfeldman.bsky.social and @standupforscience.bsky.social at annual #BT5k fundraiser for brain tumor research. GO BEARS!
Turns out that the “loudest” neurons are not always the most relevant ones. Great article about a fascinating and important result by @hayleybounds.bsky.social , graduate of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social neuroscience.
Hayley Bounds@hayleybounds.bsky.social · last yr.Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @ldattaro.bsky.social for this coverage of our recent paper!
New paper from Deepa Ramamurthy in my lab, just out. Mice flexibly shift attention between different whiskers based on the recent history of whisker stimuli and rewards, during a tactile detection task. We saw a strong neural correlate of this attentional capture in S1 cortex. rdcu.be/euij3
Reward history guides focal attention in whisker somatosensory cortex
Nature Communications - Mice flexibly shift attention between specific whiskers on a rapid timescale based on recent stimulus reward history in a detection task. Attention is correlated with a...
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Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers? Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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Proud to be among ~2000 people at SUFS today in San Francisco. Inspiring speakers and great energy! @standupforscience.bsky.social @mfeller.bsky.social and @adernburg.bsky.social were organizers!
We study how neural circuits and coding are affected in mouse models of severe genetic forms of autism. New from Han Chin Wang in my lab. The Cntnap2 model of autism has a blurry, unstable whisker map. Adds to growing evidence for degraded neural coding in forms of ASD. #neuroskyence
Degraded tactile coding in the Cntnap2 mouse model of autism - PubMed
Atypical sensory processing in autism involves altered neural circuit function and neural coding in sensory cortex, but the nature of coding disruption is poorly understood. We characterized neural co...
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Recent Curr. Biol. paper by Deepa Ramamurthy in my lab. Asks what behavioral signals are encoded by VIP neurons in whisker S1 during goal-directed behavior (beyond locomotion & arousal). Answer: local whisker signals, licking, and expected value of reward. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37499665/
Finally moving to Bluesky! Will be posting papers, lab news, neuroscience at Berkeley. Hope people find it useful. #Neuroskyence #neuroscience
