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Portrait photo of Misha Ahrens
Portrait photo of Misha Ahrens

Awardee

Misha Ahrens, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Affiliations
  • Group Leader, Janelia Farm Research Campus

Publications

Time-resolved correlation of distributed brain activity tracks E-I balance and accounts for diverse scale-free phenomena

Cell Rep, March 24, 2023

A Nanda, GW Johnson, Y Mu, M. Ahrens, C Chang, DJ Englot, et al.

Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations

Nature, March 16, 2023

Y Zhang, M Rózsa, Y Liang, D Bushey, Z Wei, J Zheng, et al.

Dimensionality reduction of calcium-imaged neuronal population activity

Nature Computational Science, December 29, 2022

TH Koh, WE Bishop, T Kawashima, BB Jeon, R Srinivasan, Y Mu, et al.

A brainstem integrator for self-location memory and positional homeostasis in zebrafish

Cell, December 22, 2022

E Yang, MF Zwart, B James, M Rubinov, Z Wei, S Narayan, et al.

Projects

Fluorescence microscopy image showing a network of bright green nerve fibers connecting to a cluster of yellow and red cellular structures.

Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
Zebrafish brain activity scan

Integrative approaches to understanding whole-brain computation

Funded Work

Understanding neural computations across the global brain

Funded Work

Featuring Misha Ahrens

Calcium activity in radial astrocytes peaks after a futile swim attempt (marked by white lines at bottom

Frustrated Fish Reveal Glia’s Computational Role in Motivated Behavior

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