Studying how the brain develops
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I am thrilled to share that this winter I will be starting my lab in the @GIGA_ULiege!
The lab will study early brain development at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience.
🌐You can find out more on the lab website: chinilab.com
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🚨 Registration is NOW OPEN for the Pre-FENS Brainhack (July 5, Barcelona)! 🧠💻
100 spots only — first come, first served ⏳
No FENS registration needed 🙌
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If you are interested in systems neuroscience, learning about data analysis, or understanding how the conceptualization of analyses can influence results, join us for the Brainhack satellite event at #FENS2026!
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🚨 Registration is NOW OPEN for the Pre-FENS Brainhack (July 5, Barcelona)! 🧠💻
100 spots only — first come, first served ⏳
No FENS registration needed 🙌
Sign up here 👉 pre-fens-brainhack.github.io…
🧠💻 Join the Brainhack satellite at #FENS2026 (July 5)!
✨ Open to all - no FENS registration required
📆 Registration opens April 9
⚠️ Limited to 100 spots (first come, first served)
Learn more: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io…
#Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience
📣 Join us in Lisbon for a one-of-a-kind hackathon! 📣
Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026 – Join Us in Lisbon! March 10–11, 2026 • Lisbon, Portugal
pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.…
Kick off COSYNE week with two days of hands-on, team-based hacking around real electrophysiology data, open tools, and reproducible workflows.
#cosyne26 #cosyne2026
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in my group – Liège, Belgium 🚨
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
RT for visibility! 🙏
fens.org/careers/job-market/…
Thanks to the support of the @frsFNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab!
Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email.
More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: chinilab.com/opportunities/p…
RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! 🙏
Chini Mattia retweeted
We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself github.com/iinnpp/isttc!
Our first project on intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) is out! 🥳
We developed a new method to estimate ITs from SUA data, which generalizes and improves the current state-of-the-art approaches.
Bonus: estimating ITs on trial-based data is dangerous ☠️
Read it all here below 👇
New preprint from @HanganuOpatzLab! We present iSTTC, a robust method for estimating intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) from single-unit activity. It’s accurate, stable, and works even when data is sparse.
doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.01.6…
Chini Mattia retweeted
Are you interested in sleep research? we are looking for a postdoc to help us studying the effects of #sleep enhancement and sleep restriction on brain cells. For more information please contact me directly or visit @bsrlaboratory. To apply go here:
unicam.it/bandi/2024/bando-p…
Chini Mattia retweeted
Our new study is out!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We (@CarlenLab) mapped the mouse PFC using single-unit activity! We recorded ~23,000 neurons across cortical/subcortical regions and profiled spont. firing patterns to reveal what separates the PFC from other brain regions.
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Chini Mattia retweeted
Just posted! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. How do #neurons wire up during #development at the right time in the right place? We looked at glutamatergic excitatory synapses in the hippocampus in vivo and found an unexpected role for NMDA receptors in a very early ‘critical window’🧵
Chini Mattia retweeted
Congratulations to our HCNS speaker Ileana Hanganu-Opatz @HanganuOpatzLab for receiving the Adolf-Fick-Prize in Vienna today!! The prize is awarded by the Physics and Medical Society Würzburg and is considered the most prestigious physiology prize in the German-speaking world! 🏆
Chini Mattia retweeted
So honored to receive the Adolf Fick-Award! It is the prize for all the past and present members of the lab, our "hall of fame". Grateful for the kind laudatio by my mentor Andreas Draguhn @DraguhnLab
Congratulations to our HCNS speaker Ileana Hanganu-Opatz @HanganuOpatzLab for receiving the Adolf-Fick-Prize in Vienna today!! The prize is awarded by the Physics and Medical Society Würzburg and is considered the most prestigious physiology prize in the German-speaking world! 🏆
If you've ever worked with spiking networks and their finicky parameter ranges, you'll love the change of perspective here below.
Also, some beautiful non-trivial biological insights from organoids ephys!
My #AI4Neuro magnum opus:
Discovery of spiking network model parameters constrained by neural recordings, using simulation-based inference & generative “AI”.
(aka the answer to “how the f did you end up in Tübingen?”)
Here's what we have in store:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Chini Mattia retweeted
Postdoc-position available 📢
The Multiscale Neurodevelopment Lab led by Casey Paquola is hiring !
Exciting position in an exciting environment blending neuroscience and machine-learning
Learn more: multiscale-neurodevelopment.…
Chini Mattia retweeted
💥I’m hiring! 💥🚀
Funded by @ARIA_research, we’re massively ramping our work on spatially-embedded efficient computation in neural networks.
18m first instance, great London location, competitive postdoc salary.
Any Qs, my DMs are open! (please RT).
imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-j…
Chini Mattia retweeted
Recruiting postdocs! Please get in touch if you wanna discuss projects on biologically plausible learning through TUM's global postdoctoral fellowship
tum.de/en/about-tum/careers-…