Research Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.117598v1
Journal Club led by: Francisco Sacadura
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PAPER SUMMARY
How do mice find their way back to safety when they perceive imminent danger? In this paper, Ruben Vale and colleagues from Tiago Branco’s lab at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre use the latest tools in systems neuroscience to find that projections from retrosplenial cortex to superior colliculus continuously encode the egocentric orientation of the shelter and mediate shelter-directed escape responses when mice face-threatening stimuli. Such cortico-midbrain circuits could provide a general framework for the flexible control of innate behaviours in rodents.
Francisco Sacadura's SHORT BIO
I’m a neuroscientist interested in understanding how computations in distributed neural circuits underly sensorimotor control and learning. I have just received my Neuroscience MSci degree from University College London and will soon start a PhD in Neurobiology and Behaviour at Columbia University in the city of New York. My previous work at Janelia Research Campus and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour has focused on the inputs to mouse cerebellum that orchestrate the learning and execution of skilled movements. My work has been funded by the Laidlaw Research and Leadership Scholarship, the Physiological Society Summer Studentship and the Janelia Undergraduate Scholarship, among others. I have also been the Academic Events Officer and Vice-President at the UCL Neuroscience Society.