Ilenna Jones

@ilennaj.bsky.social

| Cellular/Molecular-turned-Computational Neuroscientist | | What do neurons even do?? | Neural Computation with Dendrites | | Biophysical Optimization | AI <-> Neuro | | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kempner Institute | | www.ilenna.com

What does synapse position buy a neuron? We trained a dendritic network to place its own synapses on a covariance task. It clustered correlated inputs onto shared branches, and shuffling that placement destroyed performance while every weight stayed intact. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2607.24503 🧵-->

Synaptic clustering emerges from learning and supports covariance discrimination

Functional synapse clusters (FSCs) are synapses with correlated presynaptic activity that are colocalized on the same neuronal dendritic branch. FSCs have been observed after learning in cortical and ...

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In two hours we (with gunnar blohm and jordan matelsky) will run a webinar talking about our philosophy for doing good science and becoming good at science. And the tool planyourscience.com I wrote to help. If you want to join us you can sign up here:t.co/OJOQe1Ly18

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The deadline to apply for the Brain Prize Cajal summer course in Computational Neuroscience has been extended to March 9! We’re excited for you to join us in sunny Lisbon! Please do not hesitate to send in an application and learn about computational neuroscience! @gjorjulijana.bsky.social

Maria Geffen@geffenlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A special year for the Cajal Course in Computational Neuroscience: the BRAIN Prize winners Haim Sompolinsky and Larry Abbott will join us as keynote speakers. And we will bring you the same great roster of instructors as every year. Applications are now open! cajal-training.org/on-site/comp...

Thanks for highlighting this interview Ben! At the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 (Urunana!) I chatted with the EIC of iafrikan.com about the importance of summer schools like Neuromatch Academy for accessing Comp Neuro and NeuroAI training! @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social @neuromatch.bsky.social

Ben Waber@bwaber.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Next was an engaging conversation with @ilennaj.bsky.social on computational neuroscience in Africa and beyond at @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-W... (5/10)

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Today, @hhmi.org stopped all competitions supporting ECRs when we needed it most. As an FGLI undergraduate 2014/2015 HHMI EXROP participant, a 2020 Gilliam Fellow, and applicant for the now paused 2025 HGF program - I was a consistently supported by HHMI throughout my career. Please reconsider!

I am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!   💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty   📈Apply until July 1st! 🔗https://imbizo.africa/

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While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025... Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike artificial neural networks), but the dirty secret ... 1/N

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