Alexei Koulakov Archives | ��ϳԹ��Դ

The hitchhiker’s guide to the smelliverse

Communications Department — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:30:23 +0000

The post The hitchhiker’s guide to the smelliverse appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

At the Lab: AI evolves

Communications Department — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:30:14 +0000

Today’s AI can talk the talk, but it literally can’t walk the walk. This week At the Lab, CSHL Professors Anthony Zador and Alexei Koulakov discuss the biological brain’s multibillion-year evolutionary advantage over artificial intelligence—and the new AI they built based on that very concept.

The post At the Lab: AI evolves appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2025

Communications Department — Mon, 05 May 2025 18:00:58 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) takes an innovative approach to advanced science education. Graduates of the doctoral program go on to pursue a wide range of careers. On May 4, the SBS awarded nine graduates Ph.D. degrees. Here, the class of 2025 reflects on their time and experiences at...

The post The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2025 appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

The next evolution of AI begins with ours

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:30:54 +0000

In a sense, each of us begins life ready for action. Many animals perform amazing feats soon after they’re born. Spiders spin webs. Whales swim. But where do these innate abilities come from? Obviously, the brain plays a key role as it contains the trillions of neural connections needed to control complex behaviors. However, the...

The post The next evolution of AI begins with ours appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Great minds think AI

Luis Sandoval — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:30:49 +0000

What if there was a tiny drone whose in-flight controls were modeled on the visual capabilities of the common fruit fly? What if individual neurons in the human brain were sensitive to speech context? Yesterday’s flights of fancy are today’s emerging discoveries as leading scientists from around the world gather at ��ϳԹ��Դ...

The post Great minds think AI appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

President’s essay: Bringing bold visions to life

Communications Department — Fri, 26 May 2023 11:30:08 +0000

The art of high-impact research, which is at the core of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), is to pursue important questions, follow unanticipated leads, and be bold in crafting new ideas. In this way, we challenge our researchers to move science into new frontiers. While our scientists have freedom to pursue their ideas, they are...

The post President’s essay: Bringing bold visions to life appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Follow your nose: Tracking the brain’s smell circuits

Communications Department — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:00:55 +0000

The post Follow your nose: Tracking the brain’s smell circuits appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Can you outsmart this AI quiz?

Nick Fiore — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:30:42 +0000

{“questions”:{“uw19e”:{“id”:”uw19e”,”mediaType”:”image”,”answerType”:”text”,”imageCredit”:”Image: \u00a9 tomatito26 \ufeff\u2013 stock.adobe.com”,”image”:”https:\/\/www.cshl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Navlakha_fly.jpg”,”imageId”:”61375″,”video”:””,”imagePlaceholder”:””,”imagePlaceholderId”:””,”title”:”Our brains tally sights, smells, and other senses so we can respond to them quickly in the future. CSHL scientists have created a computer program that mimics this process in fruit flies. They suspect that fly brains work similarly to which of the following technology platforms in this regard?”,”desc”:”Online streaming platforms,...

The post Can you outsmart this AI quiz? appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Mapping the path from smell to perception

Jennifer Michalowski — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:00:04 +0000

Our sense of smell has a powerful effect on our behavior and emotions. Aromas can evoke vivid memories of the past or warn us of a smoldering fire. Yet to neuroscientists, smell remains the most mysterious of our five senses. Once the nose detects something, how does the brain determine what it means? Scientists aren’t...

The post Mapping the path from smell to perception appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Building better AI with the power of neuroscience

Daniel Dunaief — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:30:33 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. It enables cars to park themselves, phones to transcribe voice messages, and navigation programs to find the fastest route. And yet, these programs still lack the flexibility, creativity, and dynamic responses of the people who create them. A team of neuroscientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL),...

The post Building better AI with the power of neuroscience appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

President’s essay: Foundations for the future

Communications Department — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:30:35 +0000

This essay highlights the diverse programs of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), revealing how seemingly separate initiatives strategically intertwine to make this institution central to the future of science. I believe that the interconnectivity of our research and education programs is CSHL’s greatest strength. Combined, they enhance the impact of science conducted on our Long...

The post President’s essay: Foundations for the future appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

CSHL Ph.D. program: Graduating class of 2021

Luis Sandoval — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:35:14 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences takes an innovative approach to advanced education. Graduates of the doctoral program pursue diverse careers. This year, seven students were awarded Ph.D. degrees. Here they recall memories and experiences that they take from the Laboratory. Benjamin Thomas Berube Saint Anselm College Elisabeth Sloan Livingston Fellow...

The post CSHL Ph.D. program: Graduating class of 2021 appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

The doctor will sniff you now

Communications Department — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:30:59 +0000

atlas.brain-map.org." data-description="" />« Previous Story Table of Contents » It’s 2050, and you’re due for your monthly physical exam. Times have changed, so you no longer have to endure an orifices check, a needle in your vein, and a week of waiting for your blood test results. Instead, the nurse welcomes you with, “The doctor will sniff...

The post The doctor will sniff you now appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

NeuroAI program connects AI experts with neuroscientists

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:00:27 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have yet to get machines to match the thinking power of even simple animals. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) wants to change that by developing a new program—the NeuroAI Scholars Program—to recruit and train AI experts in modern neuroscience. By working in neuroscience and computational neuroscience laboratories, these scholars are learning...

The post NeuroAI program connects AI experts with neuroscientists appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

��ϳԹ��Դ’s class of 2020

Communications Department — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 12:30:07 +0000

Students who complete their degrees at the School of Biological Sciences pursue diverse careers. The hallmark of ��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL) graduate program is its innovative approach to advanced education in the biological sciences. This May, seven students were awarded Ph.D. degrees. Here, they reflect on how their time at the Lab prepared them...

The post ��ϳԹ��Դ’s class of 2020 appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

There’s more to smell than meets the nose

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:17:51 +0000

How do animals smell? Scientists haven’t quite decoded it yet, but researchers at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have found that it’s different from previously proposed. To understand how the brain processes and interprets smells, CSHL neuroscientists Florin Albeanu, Alexei Koulakov and colleagues are putting past odor classifying models to the test, and they’re discovering...

The post There’s more to smell than meets the nose appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Quantifying how the brain smells

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:00:05 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Scientists haven’t quite decoded how animals smell, but researchers at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) found that it’s different from previously thought. To understand how the brain processes and interprets smells, CSHL neuroscientists Florin Albeanu, Alexei Koulakov and colleagues Honggoo Chae, Daniel Kepple, Walter Bast from CSHL, and Venkatesh Murthy...

The post Quantifying how the brain smells appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

What’s that smell? Neuroscientists are figuring it out

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:15:31 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Florin Albeanu and Professor Alexei Koulakov have received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Award for an innovative neuroscience research project on the olfactory system, one of the basic senses that is still quite mysterious. The project will study how the brain interprets smell, an...

The post What’s that smell? Neuroscientists are figuring it out appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

Peter Tarr — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:07:30 +0000

At noon every Tuesday from September through June, scenes from a revolution in neuroscience are playing out at ��ϳԹ��Դ. Week after week, over 100 scientists cram themselves into a ground-floor meeting room in the Beckman Laboratory. It’s standing-room only as everyone in the Neuroscience Program settles in to hear details of the...

The post Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Swartz Centers dedication

Jill Stone — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:23:34 +0000

An official recognition of Jerome Swartz for his 25+ years of friendship and generous support of ��ϳԹ��Դ neuroscience programs was held on Wednesday, April 1 with the dedication of the Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neuroscience and Neural Mechanisms of Cognition. Jerry, co-founder and former CEO of Symbol Technologies was the 1999 recipient...

The post Swartz Centers dedication appeared first on ��ϳԹ��Դ.

Alexei Koulakov Archives | ���ϳԹ���Դ