News and fun

Ren rocks her first thesis committee meeting!
Feb 4, 2026
PRE-PRINT ALERT: Dimitar's study on fast and slow learning-related changes is posted to bioRxiv!
In this study, we compare how the encoding properties of climbing fibers change across multiple timescales of learning.
Dec 22, 2025
PRE-PRINT ALERT: Dimitar's study on fast and slow learning-related changes is posted to bioRxiv!
The lab's third CDN Christmas party
The lab’s Bill and Ted-themed skit rocked on all 3 of Marr’s levels. Somehow, the lab keeps letting Dimitar write the skits.
Dec 12, 2025
The lab's third CDN Christmas party
The lab wins the Royal Oak Pub Quiz
Many are calling this the lab’s great achievement to date.
Nov 19, 2025
The lab wins the Royal Oak Pub Quiz
Subham passes his Upgrade exam and officially becomes the lab’s first PhD candidate
Congrats! This is a terrific and well-earned accomplishment.
Nov 13, 2025
Friend of the lab Jacques Carolan’s paper using 2p voltage imaging to study synaptic plasticity in Purkinje cells is published
Dimitar and Maxime made a minor contribution to the study, which was published in Nature Comms.
Oct 3, 2025
Ren official starts in her new position as a PhD student in the lab
Her PhD work will focus on cerebello-cortical interactions in the context of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Oct 1, 2025
Emily Hallsworth joins the lab as our new Research Technician
She comes to us after finishing her Masters degree in Paul Anastasiades’s lab at the University of Bristol.
Sep 17, 2025
The lab attends the annual CDN Scientific retreat at Hinxton Hall
Carolina presents the progress of her PhD work and Dimitar organizes the poster and talk judging.
Sep 15, 2025
The lab attends the annual CDN Scientific retreat at Hinxton Hall
2025 Cerebellum Gordon Conference in Switzerland
Dimitar gave a talk and Subham presented a poster.
Jul 6, 2025
2025 Cerebellum Gordon Conference in Switzerland