FENS 2026: We will present our BMI, mouse neuroprosthesis and somatosensory processing work through this week, including chairing a session on circuit neuroscience in freely moving mice! Check out the schedule below 🔽🔽🔽
Sensori-motor Integration and Plasticity Lab
@touchmovelab.bsky.social
A CNRS/University Paris-Saclay group headed by Daniel Shulz at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience. Where touch and motor control meet!
A new publication of team member Luc Estebanez in collaboration with @mdc-berlin.bsky.social James Poulet in @plosbiology.org!
Luc Estebanez@lucestebanez.bsky.social · 4mo ago▶️ In our new @plosbiology.org study with James Poulet, we show somatosensory contributions to M1 Vm in a forelimb reaching task. ▶️ Surgical removal of somatosensation impacted movement encoding, Vm regulation and its transition to active state, and more! ▶️ Learn more: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Join the development of the mouse forelimb prosthesis as a post-doc, apply!
Luc Estebanez@lucestebanez.bsky.social · 7mo ago🦾 🧠 Are you interested in building and experimenting with the second version of our mouse forelimb prosthesis? Apply to our Post-Doc position at Université paris-Saclay. Neuroscientists with interest for engineering, and engineers with interest for neurosciences all welcome! Apply now 🔽🔽🔽
🦾 🧠 Are you interested in building and experimenting with the second version of our mouse forelimb prosthesis? Apply to our Post-Doc position at Université paris-Saclay. Neuroscientists with interest for engineering, and engineers with interest for neurosciences all welcome! Apply now 🔽🔽🔽
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We have a Post-Doc position in the team. Learn more and apply 🔽🔽🔽
Luc Estebanez@lucestebanez.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe have opened a call for a post-doctoral researcher ! Our team @touchmovelab.bsky.social researches strategies to provide direct cortical feedback during brain-machine interface control of an upper limb prosthesis in the mouse model.
1/4 Today we introduce the first upper limb prosthesis for the mouse model, controlled by a brain-machine interface! We show that mice can control this prosthesis via a brain-machine interface to solve a rewarded task.
Our team has a new BioRxiv out, on the operant conditioning of cortical waves, led by Anton Dogadov @dogadov.bsky.social ! We looks at cortical wave conditioning, and at the interactions between peripheral inputs and cortical dynamics which shape waves that match an arbitrary conditioning rule.
Luc Estebanez@lucestebanez.bsky.social · last yr.1/6 We have a new/updated preprint out, led by Anton Dogadov, demonstrating operant conditioning of large cortical waves over mouse S1 thanks to a mesoscale GCamp6 brain-machine interface! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🎉 L'interdisciplinarité est à l'oeuvre dans notre institut. 🤝 Nos liens forts avec la communauté des ingénieurs du L2S @centralesupelec.bsky.social nous valent le label PRIME de @cnrs.fr !
Le projet Neurocontrol : où les neurosciences rencontrent l’automatique – MITI
Retrouver l'interview des porteurs du projet Neurocontrol, fruit d’une collaboration entre neuroscientifiques et automaticiens
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Two postdoc positions in the lab within the ERC Synergy project "Chronology" in collaboration with S. Ostojic, M. Jazayeri and V. van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social . Two focuses: sound sequences representations across the brain & novel all-optical technology. Contact: brice.bathellier@cnrs.fr
C'est notre grande tristesse d'annoncer le décès de Heather McLean, Maitresse de Conférence en neuroscience à @univparissaclay.bsky.social, chercheuse à @neuropsi.bsky.social.
🧵New preprint from @tom-quetu.bsky.social and me, done in Dan Shulz’s lab @touchmovelab.bsky.social at @neuropsi.bsky.social : We uncover how a tactile code emerges in cortical layer 5a from temporal integration of thalamic input. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Let’s break it down 👇
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🐀💪More coverage of our latest mouse limb embodiment work @plosbiology.org in @newsweek.com !
Scientists trick mice with human experiment with 'unparalleled' value
"This opens up many opportunities."
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The "rubber hand illusion" in mice... @lucestebanez.bsky.social &co use automated videography to show that mice display quantifiable behavioral markers of the embodiment of an #ArtificialLimb, opening the door to future research into human #BodyOwnership disorders @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jHsESn
About our latest study, with comments by @plasticity-lab.bsky.social Tamar Makin inside! 🔽🔽🔽🔽 www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
'Rubber paw illusion': Mice can 'sense' artificial limbs, just as humans do
Scientists have introduced a new laboratory model that could help them study how artificial limbs can be better designed.
livescience.com
We are pleased to have this publication out in @plosbiology.org!
Luc Estebanez@lucestebanez.bsky.social · last yr.Our work on rubber hand embodiment in mice is out @plosbiology.org! We show that just like in humans, visuo-tactile pairing can lead mice to an embodiment-like behavior with respect to an artificial limb.
Our work on rubber hand embodiment in mice is out @plosbiology.org! We show that just like in humans, visuo-tactile pairing can lead mice to an embodiment-like behavior with respect to an artificial limb.
Embodiment of an artificial limb in mice
Body ownership disorders can be triggered by disease or body damage in humans. This study shows, using an automated, videography-based procedure, that mice also display quantifiable behavioral markers...
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A very clear, detailed, and fair account on the (obscure?) French way to distribute positions in academia, and then manage to actually do some research! Thanks Olivier
Olivier Marre@oliviermarre.bsky.social · last yr.In case this is helpful for anyone, here is a post on how to get a job in french academia : trialsanderrors.substack.com/p/getting-a-... Aimed at non-french scientists who are curious, but french ones may find it useful too.
A tenure track "AI and pathological behavioral trajectories" Professor position is open at NeuroPSI. Learn more and apply 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...
Just arrived in Montpellier for #Neurofrance2025! Thanks to Ahmed for the invitation to the Somatosensation Symposium, tomorrow morning 😀
We will be at #NeuroFrance2025 ! 📰 In poster PS3.092, Alexandre Tolboom will present work demonstrating an optimal latency on closed-loop Brain-Machine Interfaces.
Heureux d'avoir pu brièvement présenter dans "Avec Sciences" de alexandremorales.bsky.social sur @franceculture.fr , les publications dans @nature.com du consortium MICrON concernant la reconstitution anatomo-fonctionnelle d'un mm² de cortex visuel !
La plus grande carte du cerveau jamais réalisée
150 chercheurs américains, réunis au sein du MICrONS project, sont parvenus à reproduire avec précision une partie du cerveau d'une souris. Ils dévoilent leurs résultats dans une série d'articles publ...
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⚠️ Un poste de MCU en Maths-Info-Stats s'ouvre bientôt à Sorbonne Université pour rejoindre mon équipe (background computationnel et experience en analyse de données de neurosciences experimentales souhaités + qualification requise). Contactez-moi pour plus d'infos! Please RP!
We are pleased to announce a Youtube channel for our institute: www.youtube.com/@NeuroPSI-sa... You will find here a selection of our conferences, and more!
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📢 📢 📢 The deadlines for both registration and abstract submission have been extended for 1 week! Do not miss this opportunity to participate in the Braincoder conference and shape the future of brain-machine interfacing!
Congratulations to our team head Daniel Shulz, who was awarded the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science! This recognizes a life of dedication to the success of junior scientists and to the development of the neuroscience community in France and beyond. Congratulations and thank you Dan!
