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SUMMARY:Seminar - Manuel Valero
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Centre Broca \n\nManuel Valero\nManuel Valero\nPostdoctoral fellow in Buzsaki lab\nNYU Neuroscience Institute\, New York University\nhttps://valeroneuroscience.com/\nhttps://twitter.com/MValero87\n \nInvited by Mario Martin-Fernandez\nNeurocentre Magendie (Team: Herry) \nTitle\nThe role of inhibition in hippocampal coding \nSummary\nThe fundamental computation a single neuron performs is to integrate incoming excitatory and inhibitory inputs to decide whether to fire an action potential and feedback its activity into the network. Investigation of this synaptic computation requires access to the neuron subthreshold dynamics\, whose state-of-art methodologies have remained unaltered for decades and are unrealistic for cell assemblies and behaving animals.\nThese experiments disclosed a reciprocal interaction between inhibition and excitation along the place fields of CA1 and demonstrated that the same exact perturbation can bring about opposite responses during exploration and transient SPW-Rs. \nBiosketch\n\n I am especially interested in the neural interplay of excitatory and inhibitory activity in cortical networks and how these dynamics create neural representations and memories. My long–term goal is to uncover the precise mechanisms that permit the maintenance of a balanced\, prewired network\, while allowing for degrees of imbalance to generate the plasticity that leads to memory. During my PhD (2013–2017) in Menéndez de la Prida ́s Lab (CSIC\, Spain) I used a wide set of tools – single–cell recordings in freely–moving rodents\, simultaneous intracellular and extracellular recordings\, large–scale multi–site electrophysiology and optogenetic manipulations\n– to unveil the fundamental rules that govern cell recruitment during memory consolidation. I discovered the network motifs underlying the cell–selective firing during the hippocampal sharp– wave ripples\, and how deviations from balanced excitatory–inhibitory dynamics lead to (or rescue from) memory deficits. These results were published as two scientific articles (Nature Neuroscience [2015] and Neuron [2017]) and a review (Current Opinion of Biology [2018]) as the first author contributor. For my postdoctoral period (2018–2022) and funded by the EMBO and the HFSP I established my own research lines in the laboratory of György Buzsáki (NYU\, US) on high–resolution optogenetics and novels promotor–specific transgenic strategies. I described a unique population of inhibitory interneurons\, uniquely active during sleep down–states and able to gate memory consolidation (Nature Neuroscience [2021])\, and I created a method to probe the subthreshold dynamics of hundreds of cells in freely moving animals  optogenetically. With this method\, I demonstrated that place cells emerge by transient disinhibition\, a long–standing question in our field (Science [2022]\, as the first author and corresponding author; and Cell Reports [2022]). Over the course of my career\, I have published 26 articles\, including 7 as the first author and 3 as the corresponding author\, mentoring 7 PhD on the process.\n
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