Simon Musall

Group leader at @fz_juelich and @RWTH.
Interested in cortical coding, neuromodulation and sensory-guided decision making.

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

Finally out @NatureNeuro with @anne_churchland, @XRichardSun, @YinChaoqun, and our twittlerless colleagues. https://t.co/Q8wIEcRJaQ 🥳
Also, check out the great partner paper from @hm_mohan, revealing cell type-specific cortical subnetworks during feeding. https://t.co/De4NklgMrR

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

Our study on mesoscale cortical activity in different pyramidal neuron types is finally out on biorxiv: https://t.co/mJr16g2B7l. Excitatory cell types show unique cortex-wide dynamics and task-related activity! Big thanks to @xrichardsun and @anne_churchland!
Short thread below.

[Ariel Gilad @ArielGilad]

Exicted to share our new preprint on how mice transfer sensory information and working memory across hemispheres. Quick answer, it depends on the mouse! Heroic work by @elad_avidan1 with help from @ShlomoSherer. Most difficult mouse training ever!
https://t.co/1yEw8VtUBF

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

Our work with @BenschZimmer on the role of DNMT1 for interneuron migration and function is now out as an editors highlight at nature communications (https://t.co/eQ90tv8cY1). Very happy that I could contribute to this great work and seeing it online :)
https://t.co/CQAHXD61zm

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

@ArielGilad @yaelesther @mattlark Congratulations Ariel, this looks super interesting! We are also working on something related, perhaps we can get together and compare notes some time 🙂

[Ariel Gilad @ArielGilad]

Super excited to share our preprint on cortex-wide dynamics of different layers across leearning, by @yaelesther with collab. Robert Sachdev and @mattlark! Take home message: learning is NOT about the cortical column, it's extra-columnar! Please repost!

https://t.co/t0HMWUZg27

[Chaoqun Yin @YinChaoqun]

Our work is officially online now! 🥳🥳@MelinMaxwell @rojasbowe_ @anne_churchland
Key points: 1st, we found that, consistent with previous studies, consecutive trials within behavioral sessions of a decision-making task can be divided into engaged and disengaged states. (1/8)

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

@IreneLenzi1 Congratulations Dr Lenzi !! Truly fantastic job 🎉🤓

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

Importantly, the approach is not limited to Neuropixels. UnitRefine works well on very different datasets, including MEAs or wire recordings in humans, and it is quite easy to train models with different metric combinations. If you curate any ephys data this might be worth a try!

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

Very happy to finally have this project out!
UnitRefine is a toolbox to facilitate spike sorting curation by learning from expert-labeled datasets. Trained on Neuropixels recordings and tested across species and labs, it achieves high accuracy and generalizes well to unseen data.

[Irene Lenzi @IreneLenzi1]

Finally out this amazing tool developed by @AnoushkaJain3 for automated spike sorting!!! @simonMusall For neuropixels and spiking data users, it is worth a try! https://t.co/HhkUrvoUKe

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

Check out the repo (https://t.co/dhYTJYouc3) and Spikeinterface documentation (https://t.co/irCWCs6R54) for tutorials and more info. Still work in progress, feedback is welcome!
Huge team effort by @AnoushkaJain3 @RobynBGreene @buccino_alessio @MatthiasHennig6 and many others!

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

Now finally out in @NatureComms ! The new version includes major additions to explore the role of surround suppression in the processing of broadband visual stimuli in the visual system of mice. Congratulations to @elisabetaballa and the whole team! https://t.co/Px89YkrqMq

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

New study on bioRxiv where we investigate how the visual system encodes complex visual stimuli with various statistical features of the natural scenery and how they affect visual perception: https://t.co/ScKgF8DML4
Fun collaboration with @elisabetaballa and Bjoern Kampa.

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

@SuryaGanguli @shreyaneuroctrl @ruimcosta Congratulations Shreya!!

[Longwen Huang @LongwenHuang]

First preprint from my lab led by @Yunyao_Xie @yijiaaaaaa7 . Parents are often faced with challenging environmental conditions, and therefore need to risk their own safety to protect and raise the offspring.
Please check out how maternal motivation overcomes innate fear. 1/n

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

@SaKrabbe That's awesome Sabine! Congratulations!

[Francesca Santoro @santorof14]

Check out our latest publication just out in @advancematerial on how to build enzyme-mediated neurohybrid synapses! @antoniolob98 @VRinconMontes @simonMusall @danielarana97 @ClaudiaLubrano4 @aoffenhaeusser @ERC_Research @RWTH @fz_juelich @NEInterfacesLab
https://t.co/trMGcvG6Lg

[Michael Wenzel @Maikl_Wenzel]

Check by a 5yr journey of the lab in mice & humans, just up on bioRxiv! Post-ictal symptoms can be life-threatening, & basic mechanisms are mostly unclear. 1/2 https://t.co/7A2ZEW0VLL

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

@petrznam @AthenaAkrami @yiran25_ @populusalba9 @ant_blot Congratulations Petr! Great work!

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

@HanganuOpatzLab @DraguhnLab Congratulations!

[Simon Musall @simonMusall]

@ArielGilad @Yas88954605 @SfNJournals Congratulations Ariel and David!
Great to see it out!

[Gaia Tavosanis @GTavosanis]

Postdoc position open in the Tavosanis Lab! We extended the deadline- check it out here:

https://t.co/mQeXz9YUCF