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The lab completes the first half marathon! Beautiful run on the shore of Lake Garda, from Arco to Malcesine. Heather snatched the victory at the last km.
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Federico invited to give a talk at public engagement event on Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. Talk title: What can artificial intelligence learn from the brain?
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Heather is selected and attends the Nencki Open Lab Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience: Rethinking naturalistic behavior https://nenckiopenlab.org/dolomites/
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Optic table!
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Heather Strelevitz joins the lab for her PhD. First challenge: Halloween pumpkin carving!
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Federico and collaborators receive the UCL Global Engagement Award. The award will fund a meeting for new PIs, aimed at building more diverse and equitable research groups across Europe.
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The FANCi lab opens its doors! Functional architecture of neural circuits here we come.
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Federico receives the Armenise-Harvard Career Development award to investigate the circuit and synaptic logic of visuo-motor integration
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Federico receives the Human Technopole Early Career Fellowship to investigate the transcriptomic architecture of visuo-motor circuits.