Recent news
“SAFE Labs Handbook” paper published
The paper describes the process and content of the handbook: a tool for improving lab cultrure
Tom Childs awarded Bogue Fellowship!
The Bogue Fellowship supports postgraduate research students and post-doctoral researchers working in the Life and Biomedical Sciences to visit the USA.
Ainiah Masood co-chairs FENS 2026 symposium
Ainiah Masood and Shuting Han co-chair a symposium at FENS 2026 in Barcelona: "The brain in context: flexible neuronal processing across behaviors and states" on July 9th at 9:45am.
Tom Childs joins as a PhD Student
Tom Childs has decided to join the lab for his PhD. He will be leading the lab's audiovisual navigation work. Welcome Tom!
Ryan Shen joins as a technician
Ryan is going to to be doing a bit of everything from 3D printing to animal training. Welcome Ryan!
Hamid Turker joins as a research fellow
Hamid begins an exciting project based on a freely-moving audiovisual arena. Welcome Hamid!
Tom Childs joins for a PhD Rotation
Tom is in Optical Bio DTP and will be joining us for (at least...) a 12 week rotation. Welcome Tom
We had our first annual lab retreat
We had the first (not last) lab retreat with the Rossi Lab in Italy. We return full of salami, cheese, and scientific inspiration
Jenkin joins for a summer project
Jenkin will be completing a summer project: training mice to perform a novel audiovisual task
Qimin Wu Completes their Masters Project!
Qimin finished a challenging project: an inter-lab collaboration investigating spontaneous behaviour and task performance
“Apollo Implant” version of record at eLife
The version of record for our eLife paper is now live! A reusable, flexible, and lightweight chronic implant for Neuropixels probes.
Superior Colliculus symposium at SFN 2024
Flóra and Pip co-chair a symposium at SFN 2024 in Chicago: "Is there anything the superior colliculus doesn't do?" on October 8th at 2pm
“UnitMatch” paper published in Nature Methods
UnitMatch, a software package for tracking neurons across time is now published in Nature Methods!
“Apollo Implant” reviewed preprint is now live at eLife
Our eLife paper is now live! A reusable, flexible, and lightweight chronic implants for Neuropixels probes.
Pip Awarded 2024 UCL Early Career Neuroscience Prize
Pip receives the Early Career Neuroscience Prize for his 2023 paper (co-authored with Tim Sit): Mouse frontal cortex mediates additive multisensory decisions
Multisensory symposium at FENS 2024
Pip and Seung-Hee Lee are chairing the symposium "Multisensory decisions across species and modalities" on June 26 at FENS 2024
Pip & collaborators organize SAFE Labs
SAFE Labs will take place next week: a meeting for new PIs, aimed at building more diverse and equitable research groups across Europe.
Come and see us at SFN
We're at SFN: Come and see Pip @ WW4, or the Tools, Tech, and Theory Social. And our related work at EE27, WW4, WW5 & WW7.
bioRxiv on “UnitMatch” published
We collaborated on a new software tool, led by Enny van Beest and Célian Bimbard: "UnitMatch is a toolbox to match single units across recordings.
Pip & collaborators receive Global Engagement Award
The award will fund a meeting for new PIs, aimed at building more diverse and equitable research groups across Europe.