Lisa Giocomo
@lgiocomo.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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At SFN 2025? Come check out our posters on Monday!
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
At SFN 2025? Come check out our posters on Monday!
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The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
Sosa Lab - Postdoctoral Researchers
We are seeking postdocs to start in 2026!
www.sosaneurolab.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
Congrats to lead authors @alexattinger.bsky.social and Tony Drinnenberg and all our amazing collaborators! Check out the thread below for new work from the lab on plasticity, cortex and spatial representations for navigation!
How does the brain balance learning new things without overwriting what it already knows? Our new paper tackles this long-standing stability–plasticity dilemma during active navigation. With Tony Drinnenberg from the Deisseroth Lab (@deisseroth.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Environmental Novelty Modulates Rapid Cortical Plasticity During Navigation
In novel environments, animals quickly learn to navigate, and position-correlated spatial representations rapidly emerge in both the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) and primary visual cortex (V1). However,...
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Congrats to lead authors @alexattinger.bsky.social and Tony Drinnenberg and all our amazing collaborators! Check out the thread below for new work from the lab on plasticity, cortex and spatial representations for navigation!
Reposted by Lisa Giocomo
Excited to announce that my first postdoc paper is now online!
Links:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eAcN7
In it, we examine the perennial question: what changes in the brain when learning a new motor skill?
Read more below to find out 👇
Links:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eAcN7
In it, we examine the perennial question: what changes in the brain when learning a new motor skill?
Read more below to find out 👇
Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement - Nature Neuroscience
Hardcastle and Marshall et al. show that striatal function is domain specific, required for task-related but not spontaneously expressed movements. This functional distinction is reflected in starkly ...
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Excited to announce that my first postdoc paper is now online!
Links:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eAcN7
In it, we examine the perennial question: what changes in the brain when learning a new motor skill?
Read more below to find out 👇
Links:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eAcN7
In it, we examine the perennial question: what changes in the brain when learning a new motor skill?
Read more below to find out 👇
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It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience
Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper from the lab officially out! Congratulations @marisosa.bsky.social - amazing work - and just before she sets off to UC Boulder to start her own lab!
How does the brain map where rewards are found?
Stanford researchers Lisa Giocomo and Mari Sosa found that mice form adaptable hippocampal maps that track reward locations, offering insight into how memory, dementia & addiction relate to place and reward.
neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/locatio...
Stanford researchers Lisa Giocomo and Mari Sosa found that mice form adaptable hippocampal maps that track reward locations, offering insight into how memory, dementia & addiction relate to place and reward.
neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/locatio...
June 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New paper from the lab officially out! Congratulations @marisosa.bsky.social - amazing work - and just before she sets off to UC Boulder to start her own lab!
Please re-post and share! This is a great effort to improve communication of science benefits and discoveries
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Please re-post and share! This is a great effort to improve communication of science benefits and discoveries
Reposted by Lisa Giocomo
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
Early morning run on the High Line ❤️
May 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Early morning run on the High Line ❤️
New lab alert!! Mari is an incredibly creative and awesome scientist - plus an amazing mentor! If you have the opportunity to join her lab - I can’t recommend it enough - can’t wait to see her get started ❤️
Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience!
The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
May 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New lab alert!! Mari is an incredibly creative and awesome scientist - plus an amazing mentor! If you have the opportunity to join her lab - I can’t recommend it enough - can’t wait to see her get started ❤️
Looking forward to a day of science at @CSHL! Started my day with a sunrise run - such a beautiful campus
March 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Looking forward to a day of science at @CSHL! Started my day with a sunrise run - such a beautiful campus
Congratulations to Charlotte Herber on her beautiful thesis defense today! The MD world is very lucky to have you headed back to clinic soon but we will miss you! Excited to see where your future path takes you in research and medicine!
March 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Congratulations to Charlotte Herber on her beautiful thesis defense today! The MD world is very lucky to have you headed back to clinic soon but we will miss you! Excited to see where your future path takes you in research and medicine!
Reposted by Lisa Giocomo
New from the lab!! 👉🏼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgT43BtfH... 📝 @cellpress.bsky.social We discovered that genetically-defined neuron types in the hippocampus form unique manifolds! Dual color imaging, chemogenetics and topological analysis all at once! With Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New from the lab!! 👉🏼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgT43BtfH... 📝 @cellpress.bsky.social We discovered that genetically-defined neuron types in the hippocampus form unique manifolds! Dual color imaging, chemogenetics and topological analysis all at once! With Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social
Congratulations to John Wen on his thesis defense! Amazing to see what you've accomplished over your PhD and can't wait to see where your journey takes you!
February 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Congratulations to John Wen on his thesis defense! Amazing to see what you've accomplished over your PhD and can't wait to see where your journey takes you!
We are looking for a research tech! Come join the team - apply here: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Research Technician- Giocomo Lab
Primary Work Address: Beckman Center, Stanford, CA, 94305-5323 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We are currently looking for a scientifically curious Research Tech...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We are looking for a research tech! Come join the team - apply here: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...