Yotaro Sueoka published a first-author paper in Nature Neuroscience on how the phenomenon of theta phase precession in the hippocampus is affected by a mismatch between an animal’s internal representation of where it is located in an environment and the spatial landmarks that provide external sensory input about its location.  This work, in collaboration with the lab...

Yotaro Sueoka, a graduate student in our lab, was recently awarded an international scholarship from the Honjo foundation in Japan in support of his studies here at Hopkins.

Congratulations to former Knierim lab postdocs Xiaojing Chen and Cheng Wang for their recent paper with James Knierim in PNAS titled “Impaired spatial coding of the hippocampus in a dentate gyrus hypoplasia mouse model” (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416214122). Xiaojing and Cheng are currently in Shenzhen, China. Xiaojing is at the Brain Research Center, Dept. of Neuroscience at Southern...