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Karolina Socha

@karolinazsocha.bsky.social

Assistant Project Scientists @UCLA investigating neural circuits underlying decision-making

Karolina Socha @karolinazsocha.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🎉 🎉 🎉 Very happy to share that the Neuropixels Opto paper, on which I am a co-first author, is finally out today! @natmethods.nature.com Nature Methods!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Karolina Socha @karolinazsocha.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Thrilled to share that both papers from my postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk at @carandinilab.net, as part of the International Brain Lab collaboration, are now out in @nature.com 🎉 🧠 Brain-wide neural activity during complex behavior: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧠 representations of prior: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Karolina Socha @karolinazsocha.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

These probes let us evoke activity in neurons near the emitter sites, enabling spatial and temporal control across different depths of the mouse cortex.

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Karolina Socha @karolinazsocha.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Some snippets of results: we successfully triggered activity in excitatory neurons expressing the red-shifted opsin ChRmine with both long and short light pulses. We show that the probes can be used for precise activation, identification, and manipulation of neuronal populations!

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Karolina Socha @karolinazsocha.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Thrilled to share our latest work exploring new avenues for combining #Neuropixels with #Optogenetics! Congratulations to co-first author Anna Lakunina, the Neuropixels Opto Consortium and collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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