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January 15, 2019
Congratulations to Nirag for being awarded an NIH postdoctoral training fellowship through the BRAIN Initiative! Nirag proposed to develop machine-learning and computational...
January 15, 2019
Congratulations to Henry who was awarded an NIH F32 postdoctoral training fellowship! Henry proposed to study how the conflicts between diversity and collective behavior are...
September 27, 2018
Mahmut has been accepted to the NeuroBridges workshop at Le Centre de Conferences Internationales de Cluny in Cluny, France, Oct. 2-12. He will be attending lectures and...
September 13, 2018
On Sept. 11, Junjiajia successfully defended his thesis in the Yale Physics department! He has joined Tower Research Capital in NYC as a quantitative trader. Congrats Jun!
September 5, 2018
eLife Insight on the metabolic division of labor in clonal cell populations, which Charlotte contributed to while working in the Ackermann Lab over the summer. 
August 25, 2018
Thierry and Nirag spent the month of August at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in UC Santa Barbara as part of the “Neural computations for sensory navigation”...
High- (red) and low-performance (blue) bacteria migrate together
June 6, 2018
Diversity and collective behavior are both beneficial to groups. However, collective behavior requires coordination whereas diversity tends to reduce it. Our paper on how...