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Charlotte Boccara

@charlotteboccara.bsky.social
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Systems neuroscientist @NCMM (university of Oslo) interested in sleep, cognitive development and learning/memory Boccaralab.com

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Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine (NCMBM) @ncmbm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🧠 A couple days left for you to apply to be a researcher in Systems Neuroscience and Sleep in Charlotte Boccara's team @ncmbm.bsky.social Need more details? 👉 tinyurl.com/4h2tdj28 Deadline: 15 August 2026 @nordicembl.bsky.social @embl.org
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RESEARCHER IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE AND SLEEP (304161) | University of Oslo
Job title: RESEARCHER IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE AND SLEEP (304161), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, August 15, 2026
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Letizia Signorelli @letiziasignorelli.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
6/6 Nyx is open source and built to grow with the community ✨ — contributions and feedback very welcome! This has been two years of work at @charlotteboccara.bsky.social 's group with an incredible team @solomiik.bsky.social @cantinortiz.bsky.social @sophiawilhelm.bsky.social and Alessandro Arena
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Letizia Signorelli @letiziasignorelli.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
5/6 Once it generalises well, you can ask new questions. NREM subtypes in rodents. Different sleep-state structures in non-mammalian species. Closed-loop control. Tracking brain states moving through the PC space, describing sleep more like a trajectory — less like a sequence of discrete stages 🌀
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Letizia Signorelli @letiziasignorelli.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
4/6 This is where we were surprised: we built Nyx for our lab, it generalised well beyond it. The same pipeline worked across mice 🐭, rats 🐀, humans 🧑, a jackdaw 🐦 and a tegu lizard 🦎. Across early development through ageing. Across different brain regions and intracranial recordings.
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Letizia Signorelli @letiziasignorelli.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
3/6 On rodents 🐭 and humans 🧑, across an extensive collection of datasets from different labs, setups and conditions, Nyx matches or exceeds inter-scorer agreement and leading supervised classifiers (Somnotate on rodents, YASA on humans), using the same unsupervised pipeline in both cases.
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Letizia Signorelli @letiziasignorelli.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
2/6 🧩 So what is Nyx? We extract spectral features from brain and muscle signals and project them into a low-dimensional space with PCA. Sleep stages emerge as clusters — not learned from labels, not imposed by fixed rules.
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Charlotte Boccara @charlotteboccara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Extremly proud of Letizia's work! – I hope it can open many doors for new sleep analyses in the community! – for us it made our developmental analyses possible.. congrats to the whole team for achieving this milestone!
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Charlotte Boccara @charlotteboccara.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I will be in NYC the next days if anybody is interested in meeting, I have some time on Thursday 26th in the evening :) (and maybe on Wednesday 25th.. if im not too jet lagged..)
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Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine @nordicembl.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We’re delighted to welcome Dongkyun Lim as a new NORPOD Fellow🎉! He is working with @charlotteboccara.bsky.social at @ncmbm.bsky.social and @thomasdwkim.bsky.social at @dandrite.bsky.social. Read about it here: tinyurl.com/4dcrp6ws
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Nordic Embl Partners
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Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine (NCMBM) @ncmbm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🌙 Sleep Awareness Month – Myth vs Fact What we think we know about sleep isn’t always right. Alessandro Arena from @charlotteboccara.bsky.social separate myths from evidence and improve sleep health across the lifespan. @embl.org @esrs.bsky.social @nordicembl.bsky.social
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Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine (NCMBM) @ncmbm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🌙 Sleep isn’t the brain “switching off”, it’s active reorganisation. For #SleepAwarenessMonth, Sophia Wilhelm postdoc with @charlotteboccara.bsky.social shares how researchers map brain activity to understand cognitive development. @embl.org @esrs.bsky.social @nordicembl.bsky.social
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Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine (NCMBM) @ncmbm.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
👩‍🔬 We are celebrating International Girls and Women in STEM Day 🎉! Charlotte Boccara, group leader @ncmbm.bsky.social has been sharing her story and research on sleep in an article in Apollon. 💡To all girls and women in STEM: Let your curiosity lead the way! tinyurl.com/3m7bz7su @embl.org @uio.no
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Søvndronningen - Forskningsnytt
Begjæret etter å avsløre søvnens hemmeligheter holder Charlotte Boccara våken om natten.
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Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine (NCMBM) @ncmbm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
💡Find out more about the work of ESRS 👉 esrs.eu Follow along this month as we explore why sleep matters, from developing brains to lifelong health. 🌙 @embl.org @nordicembl.bsky.social
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ESRS Home | European Sleep Research Society
The ESRS (European Sleep Research Society) is an international scientific non-profit organization that promotes Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine, aims to improve the care for patients with sleep diso...
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Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Medicine (NCMBM) @ncmbm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🌙 March is Sleep Awareness Month! We’re spotlighting the European Sleep Research Society and @charlotteboccara.bsky.social group at @ncmbm.bsky.social. @esrs.bsky.social connects Europe’s sleep community. 🧠 Boccara’s team studies how sleep shapes brain & metabolic development.
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Jerome Epsztein @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Happy to share our new paper with Mathilde Nordlund and Julie Koenig out @currentbiology.bsky.social. We used virtual reality in mice to study hippocampal distance coding. Our results suggest a primary contribution of grid cells to distance over cue-dependent place cell coding. shorturl.at/63yFo
Color-coded mean firing rate maps of place fields detected in the forth trials (left, sorted by the location of place fields peak) and back trials (right, sorted according to firing order in the forth trials) of all bidirectional cells recorded in the track with objects (top) or without objects (bottom). The color represents the intensity of the mean firing rate in a given bin normalized to the maximum mean firing rate (peak rate) in each direction. Note that in the CP condition, the mean firing map in one direction is the mirror image of the mean firing map in the other direction, indicating strong distance coding.
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Charlotte Boccara @charlotteboccara.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Only one more week to apply to do a postdoc with our group and this of @thomasdwkim.bsky.social @ncmbm.bsky.social @nordicembl.bsky.social ! If you are interested, contact us or apply directly to the add. Please RT. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
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Helene Knævelsrud @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
And for an update on autophagy and sleep, check out our review here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @charlotteboccara.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social
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Rest, Repair, Repeat: The Complex Relationship of Autophagy and Sleep
Autophagy and sleep are two evolutionary conserved mechanisms across the animal kingdom. Autophagy is a pathway for the degradation of cytoplasmic mat…
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Charlotte Boccara @charlotteboccara.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We have a 3-year postdoctoral position open in our lab in Oslo @ncmbm.bsky.social to work on Sleep and Development through the NORPOD program together with @thomasdwkim.bsky.social and supported by @nordicembl.bsky.social Check application here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Sleep disturbance as the strongest predictor of subsequent psychiatric disorders in young people (greater than family history and adverse childhood experiences). Sleep disturbance is modifiable, a key node for intervention. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prediction of mental health risk in adolescents - Nature Medicine
Using longitudinal survey and neuroimaging data from more than 11,000 adolescents in the United States, a machine learning model shows promising performance in identifying individuals at greater risk ...
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Butt Lab - Oxford @interneuron.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Increasing 5-HT during this time through genetic, pharmacological (SSRIs) or adverse stimuli results in an altered trajectory for the development of GABAergic interneurons, impacting early activity and – in the case of SSRIs – that present through to adulthood. The article is here: rdcu.be/epHXV
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Perinatal serotonin signalling dynamically influences the development of cortical GABAergic circuits with consequences for lifelong sensory encoding
Nature Communications - Ocana-Santero and colleagues show that serotonin is a key regulator of sensory programming. Early life SSRI exposure alters the developmental trajectory of interneurons to...
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Charlotte Boccara @charlotteboccara.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🌍🧠 💤Join us on June 20th, 2025, in Oslo for a workshop that bridges System Neuroscience and Sleep Research in partnership with @esrs.bsky.social @ncmbm.bsky.social @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social @uio.no @KU A satellite of the FENS regional meeting, register here: frm2025oslo.no/basic-sleep-...
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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hei Oslo folks. Registration is now open for the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2024, which will happen on December 9th - 13th, 2024. Please find the schedule and registration at www.mn.uio.no/sbi/english/.... The event is supported by UiO, UiO:LifeScience, and NCMM.
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Sung Han @hanlab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Excited to share my first post here! Our new paper reveals a top-down breathing circuit that slows breathing to ease anxiety & fear. A step forward in understanding how brain-breathing interactions shape emotion. Published in Nature Neuroscience—grateful to my team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Interesting hypothesis about gamma oscillations: elifesciences.org/articles/100...
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The gamma rhythm as a guardian of brain health
Fast oscillations (30-150Hz), generated by internal brain mechanisms may be essential for the maintenance of healthy brain function.
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10) Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature paper article with title and abstract
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Andrew MacAskill @macaskillaf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
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Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
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