The Kirkwood lab of MBI, in collaboration with the Lee Lab, published a new paper in Nature Neuroscience entitled “Two distinct mechanisms for experience-dependent homeostasis.” The study addressed the homeostatic adjustments needed to maintain neuronal firing within an optimal range for information encoding. The principal findings, which revise previous conceptions of homeostatic plasticity, are (1)… Read more »
News & Announcements Archive
Nielsen Lab Awarded Three Major Grants
MBI Assistant Professor Kristina Nielsen has recently received three major research awards. (1) A 5-year R01 grant from the National Eye Institute titled “Impact of visual experience on the development of the motion pathway in the ferret.” This project will use electrophysiology, two-photon imaging and behavioral experiments in ferrets of different ages to investigate the… Read more »
The 2017 Kenneth O. Johnson-Steven S. Hsiao Memorial Lecture
October 27, 2017 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm @ JHU Homewood Campus Nicole Rust, PhD Associate Professor Visual Memory Laboratory Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania PDF Document: Multiplexing representations of what we are looking at and memories of whether we’ve seen it before
New Assistant Professor Joins MBI
MBI welcomes new Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Chris Fetsch, Ph.D., who joined the institute in July. Dr. Fetsch comes to Johns Hopkins from Columbia University, where he was a postdoctoral Fellow with Michael Shadlen. His research focuses on how humans and animals make perceptual decisions in the face of uncertainty. Read more about Dr. Fetsch… Read more »
New Grant Awarded to Study Neural Representation of Space
MBI Researcher James Knierim, in collaboration with Noah Cowan of the JHU Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded a new, 5-year grant from NIH. The project, entitled “A Control Theoretic Approach to Addressing Hippocampal Function,” will use engineering analyses and principles to investigate how neurons in the hippocampus and related structures construct mental maps… Read more »
MBI Scientist Ernst Niebur Awarded Discovery Grant
Prof. Ernst Niebur of the MBI has been awarded a highly competitive Johns Hopkins University Discovery Award, together with Prof. Robert Wojciechowski from the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Prof. Howard Egeth from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. This interdisciplinary JHU team is complemented… Read more »
MBI Postdoctoral Researcher Pierre Sacre Awarded KavliNDI Fellowship
Pierre Sacre, a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Mind/Brain Institute, was one of the recipients of the inaugural Postdoctoral Discovery Fellows Program of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sacre will be working with Prof. Ernst Niebur of the Mind/Brain Institute and Prof. Sridevi Sarma in the Department of Biomedical Engineering… Read more »
Retirement Symposium Honoring Rudiger von der Heydt
Join us May 15-16 in the Sherwood Room for, “Why we see things the way we do,” Rüdiger von der Heydt’s retirement symposium celebrating research into the neural basis of visual perception.
MBI Postdoctoral Researcher Manu Madhav Awarded KavliNDI Fellowship
Manu Madhav, a postdoctoral fellow in the Knierim lab, was one of the recipients of the inaugural Postdoctoral Discovery Fellows Program of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute of Johns Hopkins University. This award, in collaboration with the Cowan lab of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, will support Manu’s research using virtual reality technology, neurophysiology, and… Read more »
MBI Researchers Publish in Neuron
MBI graduate student Doug GoodSmith and postdoctoral fellow Xiaojing Chen published a new paper in Neuron. This paper resulted from a collaboration between the Knierim lab of MBI and Kim Christian of the Song lab of the JHU Institute for Cell Engineering. Their findings described the spatial firing characteristics and pattern separation properties of different cell types in the dentate gyrus region of the hippocampus.