2026
Fall
- October: Congratulations to Omar on being selected to give a talk at the Janelia conference Data-Driven AI for Neuroscience, November 1 to 4, 2026!
- October: Kavya Subramanian, an undergraduate in the lab, wins a UROP. Congratulations Kavya!
- October: Aadi passes his qualifying exam. Congratulations Aadi!
- October: Tushar passes his qualifying exam. Congratulations Tushar!
- October: Aadi posts a new preprint, ZENO: Nonlinear filtering with Zakai Equation Neural Operators, a collaboration with Steve Flavell. Great job Aadi!
- September: Ryan publishes a first-author paper in Nature Neuroscience, Hippocampal astrocytic sequences emerge during learning and memory recall, with Steve Ramirez and colleagues. Congratulations Ryan!
- September: Recurrent synapses between CO2-sensitive olfactory sensory neurons enable robust CO2 detection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes is published in PLoS Biology, a collaboration with Meg Younger and Wei-Chung Allen Lee, with circuit modeling by Brian. Congratulations to everyone involved!
Summer
- July: Lab BBQ! Thank you to Ryan for organizing it, even though we then forced him to do all the cooking. Excellent work, Ryan!
- June: Omar passes his prospectus. Congratulations Omar!
- June: Landan Seguin rotates in the lab over the summer.
- June: Kavya Subramanian wins the Harold C. Case Scholarship. Congratulations Kavya!
- June: Brian publishes a perspective in The Transmitter, Models at the speed of thought: How AI coding is reshaping theoretical neuroscience, with short responses from seven neuroscientists.
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June: Zach passes his prospectus. Congratulations Zach!
- June: Ice cream with the lab, just for fun.
- June: Omar posts a new preprint, BiXformer: A Bidirectional Cross Attention Transformer for Disentangling Inter-regional Neural Dynamics. Great job Omar!
- June: Ryan posts a new preprint, Diurnal rhythms of choice: a novel state-dependent drift diffusion model uncovers time-dependent changes in rat decision making. Great job Ryan!
Spring
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May: Brian gives a talk at the Department of Neurobiology at UCSD.
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May: Matching pink hats at a lab dinner, because we are silly.
- Congratulations to Grant on his internship at DeepMind!
- April: Brian gives a talk, Statistical and AI Methods for Scientific Discovery in Neuroscience: From Biochemistry to Circuits to Cognition, at the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute at Yale.
- Brian, Diane Joseph-McCarthy, and James Galagan receive a Hariri Institute Focused Research Program award for AI for Characterizing and Designing Biomolecular Interactions.
Winter
- February: Brian is named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience.
- January: Grant’s paper, Low rank adaptation of chemical foundation models generates effective odorant representations, is accepted at ICLR 2026. Congratulations Grant!
2025
Fall
- November: Ryan publishes StateSpaceDynamics.jl, a Julia package for probabilistic state space models, in the Journal of Open Source Software, with Zach, James Fourie, and Carson Loughridge. Congrats Ryan!
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November: Brian gives a talk at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
- November: A lab dinner out.
- November: Grant posts a new preprint, Low rank adaptation of chemical foundation models generates effective odorant representations, with Emily, Florence Guerina, Meg Younger, and Brian. Great job Grant!
- October: Brian speaks on the junior faculty panel at the Rising Stars in Engineering in Health workshop at Columbia University.
- October: Brian is named a Computing & Data Sciences Faculty Fellow.
- October: James Fourie is awarded UROP funding for a second semester. Great job James!
Summer
- July: Zach and Ryan present StateSpaceDynamics.jl at JuliaCon 2025 in Pittsburgh.
- Ariyana Rahman is awarded a Distinguished Summer Research Fellowship to work in the lab. Watch her explainer video on finding patterns in neural activity, or see BU Engineering’s feature on her research. Great job Ariyana!
- Ryan attends the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole.
- Turky Alhargan, an undergraduate summer researcher, works in the lab with Omar.
- June: Tushar and Zach win Hariri Graduate Student Fellowships. Congratulations Tushar and Zach!
- June: Tushar is awarded a Neurophotonics Center NIH T32 fellowship. Congratulations Tushar!
Spring
- May: Brian gives a talk at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL in London.
- May: Brian, with Matthew Lovett-Barron (UCSD) and Brady Weissbourd (MIT), receives a Scialog Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems award for A community AI approach to identify and predict behavioral motifs across marine life.
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May: Ryan passes his qualifying exam and Grant passes the prospectus. Congratulations Ryan and Grant!
- May: Cake to celebrate Grant, Darcy, and Ryan passing their exams!
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April: Brian, with Matthias Stangl and Myriam Abdennadher, receives a Dean’s Catalyst Award for work on stress and cognition in epilepsy.
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April: Cake and coffee in the lab, just for fun.
- Brian gives an invited talk, Learning the Language of Smell: Foundation Models for Protein-Odor Interactions, at the ODIN conference at the Allen Institute in Seattle. Watch the video.
- March: Brian co-organizes the Cosyne workshop Graph approaches to geometric complexity in neuroscience with Kim Stachenfeld and Sam Lewallen.
- March: Darcy passes her qualifying exam. Congratulations Darcy!
- March: Ted Rock rotates in the lab.
- Zach wins an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). Congratulations Zach!
Winter
- December: The lab holiday party!
- December: Ayla Osgood rotates in the lab.
- February: Valentine’s Day (and birthday) celebration lab meeting!
- January: James Fourie is awarded the lab’s first UROP. Great job James!
- January: Brittany Ahn and Joe Xie rotate in the lab.
2024
Fall
- Grant presents his poster, Improved odor-receptor interaction predictions via self supervised learning, at NAISys at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Great job Grant!
- October: Brian is named a Scialog Fellow for Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems.
- Congratulations to Omar and Halley on winning BU AIRR awards!
Summer
- Emily starts in the lab for the summer!
Spring
- May: Brian gives a talk at the Kempner Institute at Harvard, Constructing spiking networks as a foundation for the theory of manifolds as computational substrate.
- May: Omar, Halley, Tushar, and Zach join the lab!
- May: Ryan wins a Hariri Graduate Student Fellowship. Congratulations Ryan!
- Brian is named a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow.
- April: Grant wins an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). Congratulations Grant!
2023
Fall
- November: The lab had a special lab meeting at Eastern Standard where we discussed which cocktails tasted the best and how we can use LLMs in our research!
- October: Grant presented his work on graph neural networks to predict olfactory receptor ligands. Great work Grant!
- October: The lab worked on their NSF applications together. Good luck everyone!
- Isaac Boyd and Mohigul Nasimova rotate in the lab.
- October: Ryan finished his presentation on the role of astrocytes in fear learning.
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September: See Ryan’s new bioRxiv preprint with the Scott lab on looking at the seperation of cognitive and movement representations during evidence accumulation. Congrats Ryan!
- September: The first official DePasquale lab meeting! Ryan discussed his prior work in Dr. Steve Ramirez’s lab looking at the role of astrocytes in fear learning. Great job Ryan!
Summer
- August: Darcy was awarded a T32 JSTPN Early Stage Training in Neuroscience Award from GPN. Congratulations Darcy!
- July: Brian gives a talk at the OCNS workshop on low-dimensional manifolds.
- June: Grant passes his qualifying exam. Congratulations Grant!
Spring
- May: Brian gives a ‘Research on Tap’ talk at BU.
Winter
- January: The DePasquale Lab opens its doors!