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Many thanks to Dr. Itzhak Fried for an unforgettable visit and impressive presentation!

Special thanks to director Ang Lee and composer and video game designer Kevin MacLeod for joining us for lab meeting and subsequent lunch. We much appreciate the exchange at the border between arts and neuroscience!

We say farewell to our friends and colleagues Roman and Deren but we're excited to follow the next steps in their spectacular careers: Roman will become a postdoc in the Aronov lab at Columbia University, while Deren is taking on a new challenge in the Hofer lab in UK.

Some pictures from this year's trip to the Harriman State Park in Upstate New York! We had a great time kayaking, barbecuing, and listening to Andrew's North Carolinian lore over the campfire at midnight.

With joy and sadness combined, we met at Gyuri's home to celebrate the recent marriage of our colleagues Adetta and Thomas, and to bid farewell to our dear friend Caleb and his family, who will go back to his position at Rice university after a (way to short) sabbatical with us for the last year. [...]

Congratulations to Roman for an excellent thesis and presentation!

New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about the importance of rest. Read the full article about Winnie's recent paper online at quanta magazine.

When Art meets Neuroscience. Installation of Neural Syntax by NYU Tisch School of the Arts students Lois He, Sofia Shen, Vio Zhu, Zhang Xing. It was a fun cooperation between artists-in-training and our lab. See a video of the final installation here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nqVXmXyOUZEDZ2FnB4RAiYtx8EZXztU8/view?pli=1  

Congratulations on being named an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS ScholarGPS celebrates Highly Ranked Scholars™ for their exceptional performance in various Fields, Disciplines, and Specialties. Your prolific publication record, the high impact of your work, and the outstanding quality of your scholarly contributions have placed you in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide. Listed below is a summary of the areas (and your ranking in those areas) in which you have been awarded [...]

Not one, but two dear friends visited us today: Distinguished professor Josh Huang from Duke University (third from left) and Dr. Dan Levenstein (left), our  friend and former colleague, who is now a postdoc at McGill University. Btw., check out Dan's new preprint about emerging sequential replay in recurrent artificial neuronal networks.