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Andrea Navas-Olive

@acnavasolive.bsky.social
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From synapses to oscillations, what better than hippocampus! Postdoc at @ISTAustria #ripples #memory #deeplearning #models Google Scholar: bit.ly/acnavasolive

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Wei Wen @wwenneuro.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Beautiful work and what a stunning image!
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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧪🧠 everyone learns CA3 as one big recurrent memory network. This @jakefwatson preprint says there’s a second, hidden layer inside it …..molecularly distinct, wired differently, conserved to humans. Excellent thread 👇
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Andrea Navas-Olive @acnavasolive.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you're at #FENS2026 and are interested in (our) HUMAN brain, go and see this amazing symposium! ❤️🧠
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Liset M. de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Come find us at #FENS2026 in Barcelona with @melisa-mc.bsky.social , Teresa and Violeta. Three posters, three views of hippocampal dynamics, from brain excitability to inhibitory circuits and ripple waveforms. 🧠 @fens.org @cncajal-csic.bsky.social
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Andrea Navas-Olive @acnavasolive.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Don't miss this poster today in the afternoon! It's really exciting!!!!
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Liset M. de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A must-needed benchmarking👇🏼 How much is methodological and how much is conceptual? A reason for us developing #rippl-AI github.com/PridaLab/rip... Don’t miss the next hackathon avant-FENS pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/ with @acnavasolive.bsky.social & @mattiachini.bsky.social
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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
the holy trinity: beach tapas and ephys reproducibility
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Neuroscientists in the Jonas group at ISTA, including first author Victor Vargas-Barroso, @jakefwatson.bsky.social, @acnavasolive.bsky.social, and Alois Schlögl, addressed exactly these concepts in the context of the hippocampus—the brain region that forms memories and guides spatial navigation.
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International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🧠 Registration is OPEN for Brainhack @ #FENS2026 (July 5) Explore how different analysis choices shape results Open to all — no FENS reg needed ⚠️ 100 spots, first come Register: forms.gle/c9xDSSuFeRmY... #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience
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Andrea Navas-Olive @acnavasolive.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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! More info at: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Day 5 has an exciting lineup 🤩 @smikulovic.bsky.social talks about helping mice @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social neuromodulatory circuits @acnavasolive.bsky.social SWR across species And me 💁🏽‍♀️ about theta & movement #neuroscience #NeuralMechanismsofCognitiveFunction sites.google.com/isd.org.br/i...
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Talk 19: Next up is @acnavasolive.bsky.social talking about her impressive research on sharp wave ripple analysis across species in health and disease. Andrea is a phenomenal computational neuroscientist 🤩 and I am so excited to hear her speak for the first time!
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Cont.. @acnavasolive.bsky.social discussing important considerations for identifying hippocampal ripple events in a recording session and how a convolutional NNs might help their identification. ✅
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Liset M. de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is a great application of our topological analysis of the iEEG waveform space to detect and differentiate interictal discharges, ripples and fast ripples in temporal lobe epilepsy in human. Don’t miss the 📝!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and the Github 👇🏼
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Liset M. de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Here is our paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Topological analysis of sharp-wave ripple waveforms reveals input mechanisms behind feature variations - Nature Neuroscience
This study applies topological analysis to hippocampal ripple waveforms, uncovering a low-dimensional continuum that encodes layer-specific synaptic input information. It also reveals how ripple wavef...
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Andrea Navas-Olive @acnavasolive.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
New preprint about SWRs, this time in HUMANS! 🤩 With @anna-maslarova.bsky.social and @JiyunShin, from @NYU, we’ve (i) developed a pipeline to analyze SWRs in intracranial EEG, and (ii) created ripmap, an open-source toolbox that allows versatile inspection and curation of events 🧵
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Spatiotemporal Patterns Differentiate Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples from Interictal Epileptiform Discharges in Mice and Humans
Hippocampal sharp-wave ripples (SPW-Rs) are high-frequency oscillations critical for memory consolidation in mammals. Despite extensive characterization in rodents, their application as biomarkers to ...
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Liset M. de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
2025=(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)² = 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³. 👉🏼 elpais.com/ciencia/cafe...
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
More human neurophysiology out today from the Geiger Lab. *Analogue* neuronal output modifies synapses for consolidation during sleep states. With such beautiful data and interpretation it’s easy to forget that the recordings are heroically tough. Fantastic research from @fxmittermaier.bsky.social
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Membrane potential states gate synaptic consolidation in human neocortical tissue - Nature Communications
Whether and how slow wave activity (SWA) and the underlying membrane potential UP and DOWN states initiate mechanisms that augment memory functions in humans are not fully understood. Here authors use...
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
With @mojtabart.bsky.social, we applied this to human tissue, and saw that human CA3 cells appear to receive 5 times more DG inputs than mouse cells do! This finding has a lot of potential for powering up our idea of hippocampal computations.
'LICONN' connectomic images of mouse (left) and human (right) CA3, with individual cells segmented (colour). 3D reconstructions of the dendrites show their inputs (lower), with quantification (graph).
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Finally, we saw that dentate gyrus input to human CA3 (the ‘teaching’ signal) seemed very high. Luckily, we have @mojtabart.bsky.social and Hans Danzl as neighbours. Their incredible LICONN technology allows light microscopy based connectomics. See the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Light-microscopy based dense connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue
The information-processing capability of the brain’s cellular network depends on the physical wiring pattern between neurons and their molecular and functional characteristics. Mapping neurons and res...
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Using a Hopfield-like model, @acnavasolive.bsky.social showed that expanding brain size by increasing neuronal number (sparse connectivity) is far better for memory capacity than aiming for dense connectivity (and more inputs per cell). This has some interesting philosophy for brain scaling rules!
Details of CA3 modelling experiment where circuits with the same number of synapses but different circuit architecture were tested for memory capacity. Quantification (right) shows circuit form 'A' has better memory storage (independent of the total size - colours).
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In a fantastic collaboration with Prof Karl Rössler (MedUniWien), we applied multicell patch-clamp to human hippocampus resected from epilepsy patients. Some samples show sclerosis (disease-led cell loss), but many are perfectly intact. This is the closest to 'wildtype’ human physiology we can get..
Human hippocampal slices showing non-sclerotic and sclerotic phenotypes, with cell loss in sclerotic tissue
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We explored CA3, which in theory stores and retrieves memories from interconnected ensembles of pyramidal neurons. With Victor Vargas-Barroso and Rebecca Morse, we looked for these networks using octopatch. From 8 patients and 56 slices we found just 10 connected pairs! (under 1% connectivity)..
Example image and recording traces of octuple patch-clamp recording from human hippocampal CA3
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
To touch base with better characterised circuits, we recorded in neocortex and saw the same dense connectivity that @yangfanpeng.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.bsky.social and others see. In fact CA3 wasn’t just sparse, but gets sparser from mice to humans - opposite scaling to neocortical circuits!
Measured synaptic connectivity rates between brain areas (neocortex and hippocampus) on the left. Measured synaptic connectivity rates across species in hippocampal CA3 on the right.
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We had the first view on human hippocampal synaptic pairs, and they look slow and integrating as we would expect (perfect for associations!). However they were also much more reliable and precise than seen in rodent research.
Example recordings (left) of CA3 synapses in mouse and human tissue. (Mouse - Red, Human - Blue). Quantification of synaptic potency, reliability, and precision are shown on the right as graphs.
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
As you may expect, human neurons were larger than mouse cells, but spine density was a lot lower, so the number of inputs from other neurons in the recurrent network doesn’t change so much. Low spine density and reliable synapses have been seen in other brain areas, so may be human circuit features
A collection of images showing the sizes of human and mouse hippocampal slices (grey), an array of CA3 neurons across species (upper) and measured spine densities on the cells (lower), with quantifications.
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A bigger difference between human and mouse brains is the number of neurons. This has gone up by about 17 times in CA3! By (very) simple maths, our anatomy data predicts connectivity in a random recurrent network to be pretty much in line with what we record experimentally for CA3 across species.
Schematic of CA3 scaling features (left), and calculation of theoretical connectivity for random recurrent networks with these properties (right).
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We think this explains the connectivity and circuit scaling between brain areas - dense local circuits in neocortex, while hippocampal CA3 forms something like one big recurrent network - perfect for associating all the hippocampus’ incoming info. Circuits made to measure!
Circuit schematics showing the different connectivity of neocortex (dense local connectivity) and hippocampus (sparse broad connectivity). Dotted square indicates the lens of octuple patch recording to view the circuit.
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Is neuroscience research really working to understand the human brain? Or do we get lost in mouse cognition? I’ve asked myself this a lot since starting to work with human tissue. Our first Jonas Lab foray into untangling human hippocampal circuits is now online! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/a few
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Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory
Human hippocampal CA3 networks use sparse and broad synaptic connectivity, and their recurrent synapses employ reliability, precision, and long integration times to enhance memory capacity. Thus, the human hippocampus is distinct from both rodent counterparts and human neocortical circuits.
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Jimmy Dooley @jimmycdooley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Now that we’re on Bluesky, it’s a good time to bring back #badsciencedrawings – a collection of figures that prove that science is more science than art. Before Biorender, all we had was MS Paint and a dream. But ovals, lines, and lightning bolts were all we needed Morales-Botello et al., 2012
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Andrea Navas-Olive @acnavasolive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So nice to see science sparking again 🦋 Hello everyone!
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Andrew Hires @andrewhires.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This paper is incredible. EM level connectomics on a light microscope. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Liset M. de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Following the great migration! Leading the @lmprida.bsky.social lab. Hippocampal circuits, oscillations and memory.
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Jon Rueckemann @jonrueckemann.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
go.bsky.app/LdtUYZS I created a starter pack for the growing community of hippocampus physiologists that have joined the great migration. Also included the physiology-adjacent. Tell me who I haven’t found yet
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