Luis M. Franco

Research Associate 👨🏻‍🔬
University of Oregon 🦆
Neuroscience 🐁🧠🔬

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

I'm glad to announce our new paper on the stability of neuronal representations in the retrosplenial cortex, done in collaboration with @GoardMichael.
https://t.co/4mDOZ0ccne
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[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@wredman4 @JHUECE @HopkinsDSAI congrats Will! 👏 wishing you great success in this new stage in your career!

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@NoraWolcott @GoardMichael congrats Nora! Amazing work! 👏

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@wredman4 congrats Will and to all members of the team!! 👏

[FENS @FENSorg]

🗓️ Already making plans for 2026? Put #FENS2026 on your calendar!

Find out what our Programme Committee Chair, Prof. Emre Yaksi, has to say about the upcoming #FENSForum.👇

🔔 And stay tuned – our Call for Symposia comes out next month!

More info here: https://t.co/y0oYBFbJF2

[Nora Wolcott @NoraWolcott]

Shameless #SfN24 plug: if you'll be in Chicago this weekend and want to chat about estrous cycle modulation of hippocampal plasticity (read: spines, dendrites, & place cells), come check out my poster at board P9 Sunday morning! 🐭🧠🔬

[ItzhakFried @ItzhakFried]

Temporal structure of experience etched on firing of human hippocampal-entorhinal neurons to serve memory & prediction. See our study @Nature at @UCLANsgy, great work by lead author @PTacikowski with @GuldamlaKalendr & @DavideCili support @NIH_NINDS.
https://t.co/4wWzb1N4r5

[HHMI | Janelia @HHMIJanelia]

🧪A team of researchers, led by @HelenFarrants & @ERSchreiter, developed a new way for engineered protein biosensors & bright, fluorescent Janelia Fluor dyes to work together, creating a new biosensor for measuring physiological signals in live animals.➡️https://t.co/oVKLIGmsRP

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@yaksi_emre @biorxivpreprint @annaostenrath Great work! Congratulations to the team!

[Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg]

How about this: Eliminate the job "post-doc". After a PhD you are a "researcher", and no punishment for multiple stops. At any point (age blind) you can apply for starting grant funds. You apply for consolidator funds w/in 7 years of starting lab (unlinked to PhD date).

[Michael Goard @GoardMichael]

New paper from the lab published in @NatureComms today:
https://t.co/LZTl5Gsqfh
led by first author @lmfrancomendez

Brief recap of the findings in the thread below:

[Flavio Donato @FlavioDonato82]

How can memories persist in the brain when their properties and supporting biological substrates change over time and experiences?

Our latest work newly published in @ScienceMagazine proposes that a balance between memory dynamics and persistence is achieved through the divergent recruitment of multiple memory traces established in parallel upon memory encoding.

https://t.co/j0Swqi1CRG

Welcome to the Multiverse of Memory! A thread. 1/7

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@Ella_Maru @GoardMichael Thank you @Ella_Maru!

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

I'm glad to announce our new paper on the stability of neuronal representations in the retrosplenial cortex, done in collaboration with @GoardMichael.
https://t.co/4mDOZ0ccne
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[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@wredman4 @GoardMichael Thanks a lot @wredman4!

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@NoraWolcott thank you so much for sharing @NoraWolcott! 🐁🔬

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@JhosephShin @GoardMichael thanks a lot bro!

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

@yaksi_emre @GoardMichael Thanks a lot @yaksi_emre !!

[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

If you would like to know more, I will be presenting this story at SfN on October 6th, during the morning session (D46, PSTR071.21). So, if you will be attending SfN this year, and are interested in representational stability, please come and say hi.
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[Luis M. Franco @lmfrancomendez]

In summary, our findings show an important characteristic of association areas, where diverse streams of information are stored with varying levels of stability, balancing representational reliability and flexibility according to behavioral demands.
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