Geena Ianni

a forever in-training, MD-PhD previously @TriiMDPhD @RockefellerUniv now Neurology resident @PennMedicine. I like the brain & behavior & Beyoncé. She/her

[Geena Ianni @GeenaIanni]

I'm back on Twitter to do some shameless self-promotion -- our paper is out, thread below (!!!) Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes | Science https://t.co/LIFE6YVImx

[Geena Ianni @GeenaIanni]

@SergeyStavisky Thanks for sharing it Sergey, let us know what you guys think!

[Geena Ianni @GeenaIanni]

I'm back on Twitter to do some shameless self-promotion -- our paper is out, thread below (!!!) Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes | Science https://t.co/LIFE6YVImx

[Yuriria Vazquez @yurivazu]

Thrilled to share our paper in @pnas.org!
"Neural synchrony links sensorimotor cortices in a network for facial motor control" https://t.co/mSOtYOntyn
with @GeenaIanni (co-first), @rassi_elie, Rouse AG, Schieber MH, Yazdani F, @PrutYifat, Freiwald WA.

[Geena Ianni @GeenaIanni]

also thanks to Bridget Waller and Jamie Whitehouse for their astute commentary, to our Reviewers who made the paper so, so much better, and to all the copy-editors who fixed my horrible, no good grammar

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Control over the many small muscles that create facial expressions—a key communication channel in primates—comes from the neural circuitry that produces voluntary movements, according to new Science research in macaques.

The findings suggest facial expressions are more than a reflexive “readout” of emotions, as has been often thought, but are also produced by higher-level cortical neural systems of intentional control. https://t.co/bn69FPvowq

[Geena Ianni @GeenaIanni]

@yurivazu I'm also thankful for fantastic mentorship -- @PrutYifat (a one stop shop, true jack of all trades scientist) and my twitterless advisor Winrich Freiwald (who r/o to me with this crazy idea almost ten years ago) !!!

[Geena Ianni @GeenaIanni]

I'm so thankful for fantastic teamwork -- @yurivazu (co-first), check her PNAS paper on how these regions interact to form a unified, flexible network, there's a v cool causal manipulation, Fig 3, which confirms her network ephys, so rare in primate work!

[Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @VirusesImmunity]

NIH indirect costs fund the backbone of research: maintaining labs, ensuring safety, and supporting admin work. These are essential for groundbreaking discoveries. Drastic cuts to NIH indirect rates are detrimental to academic biomedical research.

[Jeffrey Flier @jflier]

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