Please use this forum to introduce yourself!

[jeromelecoq]

If you are interested in joining this effort, please feel free to says so on this forum:

• Just state who you are and where you work.
• Explain what contributions you are interested in making

We will do our best to guide you through.

[Sarruedi]

Hi everyone, I’m Sarah Ruediger, a junior group leader at University College London. My lab is interested in how brain circuits support the learning and performance of visually guided actions. We look forward to collaborating — both by helping to analyze shared datasets and by contributing data from the lab that can complement the work being done at the Allen Institute. It is exciting to be part of a global community with shared interests and I really look forward to meeting and working with y'all.

[rcpeene]

Howdy all, I'm Carter. I'm an analyst at the Allen Institute and have been working with Jerome to collect and process and package our slap2 data into NWB. Let me know if there's any questions or suggestions for the data.

[kma-code]

Hi, I'm Kevin Max, Postdoc in comp neuro with Kenji Doya at OIST, Japan.

I'm in the "backpropagation and the brain" camp, studying network models of cortex with the aim of including as much biological detail as needed, while maintaining an understanding how such networks learn to solve complex tasks.

Because "backprop and the brain" is controversial, I want to test it against competing theories like dendritic Predictive Coding using experimental data. I think this community is interested in this as well, see e.g. a recent paper by H. Choi et al.

We are also running 2p-CA behavioral experiments with mice here at OIST. Happy to contribute and share data as it gets available.

I will not be able to attend weekly meetings due to the time shift, but please hit me up if you'd like to discuss.