Lab News
04/2026 "Hippocampal place code plasticity in CA1 requires postsynaptic membrane fusion" is published in Neuron
04/2026 "Entorhinal cortex represents task-relevant remote locations independently of CA1" is published in Nature Neuroscience
03/2026 "State-dependent spatial maps for navigation" is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
10/2025 "Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Nature Communications
Stanford Press Coverage
9/2025 Faith joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
8/2025 Louisa joins the lab as a Simons Undergraduate Research Fellow. Welcome!
6/2025 "A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward" is published in Nature Neuroscience
11/2024 "Spatial representation: How fish know their place" is published in Current Biology
10/2024 "One-shot entorhinal maps enable flexible navigation in novel environments" is published in Nature
9/2024 Frances Cho is awarded an NRSA-F32 from NINDS!
9/2024 Rufei joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
9/2024 Kanha joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
9/2024 Richard joins the lab as a Life Science Research Professional. Welcome!
8/2024 Yanjun Sun is awarded an Independence Award from the Simons Foundation!
8/2024 Ella joins the lab as a Life Science Research Professional. Welcome!
7/2024 Lisa is named an HHMI Investigator
6/2024 Sky joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
5/2024 Mari Sosa is awarded a K99 from NIMH!
4/2023 Nakul joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
3/2024 "Subicular neurons encode concave and convex geometries" is published in Nature
3/2024 Michelle joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
2/2024 "Parahippocampal neurons encode task relevant information for goal-directed navigation" is published in eLife
10/2023 "Ketamine evoked disruption of entorhinal and hippocampal spatial maps" is published in Nature Communications
8/2023 Emily Jones is awarded a K99 from NINDS!
8/2023 Frances joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
7/2023 "Remapping in a recurrent neural network model of navigation and context inference" is published in eLife
2/2023 "Neural ensembles in navigation: from single cells to population codes" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
1/2023 Chelsea joins the lab as an MSTP student. Welcome!
11/2022 "Neural circuit dynamics of drug-context associative learning in the mouse hippocampus" is published in Nature Communications
10/2022 "A unified theory for the computational and mechanistic origins of grid cells" is published in Neuron
10/2022 "From rats to humans: how novel behavioral paradigms and reinforcement learning can bridge the gap in translation" is published in Lab Animal
9/2022 Can joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
6/2022 Lavonna joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
4/2022 "Task engagement turns on spatial maps" is published in Nature Neuroscience
3/2022 Emily Jones is awarded the AP Gianini postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
10/2021 Isabel wins second place in the Sammy Kuo Awards in Neuroscience. Congratulations!
9/2021 "Distance-tuned neurons drive specialized path integration calculation in medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Cell Reports
9/2021 Sam joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
8/2021 "The grid code for ordered experience" is published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
7/2021 "Dynamic and reversible remapping of network representations in an unchanging environment" is published in Neuron
Stanford Press Coverage
7/2021 "Navigating for reward" is published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
6/2021 Emily Jones is awarded a Deans Fellowship from Stanford University. Congratulations!
6/2021 Mari Sosa is awarded funding from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. Congratulations!
6/2021 Charlotte passes her qualification exam. Congratulations!
4/2021 "Spatial memory: Place cell activity is causally related to behavior" is published in Current Biology
3/2021 Linnie passes her qualification exam. Congratulations!
3/2021 "Experience-dependent contextual codes in the hippocampus" is published in Nature Neuroscience
1/2021 "Mouse entorhinal cortex encodes a diverse repertoire of self-motion signals" is published in Nature Communications
8/2020 The lab is awarded funding from the Simons Foundation on Plasticity and the Aging Brain
4/2020 Linnie joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
2/2020 "Multiple head direction signals within entorhinal cortex: original's and function" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
2/2020 "Topography in the bursting dynamics of entorhinal neurons" is published in Cell Reports
1/2020 "Entorhinal velocity signals reflect environmental geometry" is published in Nature Neuroscience
11/2019 "How a fly's neural compass adapts to an ever-changing world" in published in Nature
10/2019 Emily joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
9/2019 Mari joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
9/2019 Charlotte joins the lab as an MSTP Graduate Student. Welcome!
9/2019 Lisa is named a Vallee Scholar
5/2019 Tucker joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
4/2019 "The shifting sands of cortical divisions" is published in Neuron
3/2019 "Remembered reward locations restructure entorhinal spatial maps" is published in Science
Stanford Press Coverage
Quanta Magazine
The Scientist
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
1/2019 John Wen joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
12/2018 "Emergent elasticity in the neural code for space" is published in PNAS
8/2018 "Self-motion processing in visual and entorhinal cortices: Inputs, integration, and implications for position coding" is published
in Journal of Neurophysiology
7/2018 "Principles governing the interaction of landmark and self-motion cues in entorhinal cortical codes for navigation" is published in
Nature Neuroscience
Stanford Press Coverage
7/2018 Alex A is awarded funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Congratulations!
7/2018 Alex A joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
4/2018 Lisa receives a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research
4/2018 "Heterogeneity in hippocampal place coding" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
1/2018 "Grid scale drives the scale and long-term stability of place maps" is published in Nature Neuroscience
12/2017 "Spatial cognition: From entorhinal neural codes to navigation" News and Views is published in Nature Neuroscience
10/2017 "Cell types for our sense of location: where we are and where we are going" is published in Nature Neuroscience
9/2017 Yanjun joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
9/2017 The lab is awarded funding from NIDA
7/2017 The lab is awarded funding from the Simons Foundation
6/2017 Isabel joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
5/2017 Alex G joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
4/2017 "A multiplexed, heterogeneous, and adaptive code for navigation in medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Neuron
Stanford Press Coverage
Video Abstract
4/2017 Corey joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
8/2016 Lisa is named a James S McDonnell Foundation Scholar
7/2016 Kei joins the lab as an MSTP Graduate Student. Welcome!
7/2016 Will joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
7/2016 Mark joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
5/2016 Kiah is awarded a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!
11/2015 "Environmental boundaries as a mechanism for correcting and anchoring spatial maps" is published in Journal of Physiology
10/2015 The lab is awarded funding from NIMH
10/2015 Kiah wins the Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience. Congratulations!
5/2015 "Internal compass puts flies in their place" News and Views is published in Nature
5/2015 "Spatial Representation: Maps of fragmented space" Dispatch is published in Current Biology
4/2015 "Environmental boundaries as an error correction mechanism for grid cells" is published in Neuron
Preview by Hayman and Burgess
Stanford Press Coverage
Current Biology Coverage
4/2015 "Computational diversity in the hippocampus: a matter of components" Perspective is published in Journal of Physiology
1/2015 "Imagine a journey through time and space" News and Views is published in Nature Neuroscience
12/2014 Rob receives a Philip Wrightson Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand. Congratulations!
10/2015 Lisa is named a New York Stem Cell Foundation - Robertson Neuroscience Investigator
10/2014 "Large scale in vivo recordings to study neuronal biophysics" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
09/2014 Lisa is awarded a Bio-X Seed Grant
07/2014 Malcolm joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
06/2014 Kiah joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
06/2014 Lisa is awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award
06/2014 Lisa is awarded a Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Research Award
06/2014 Lisa is selected as a member of The Allen Institute for Brain Science Next Generation Leaders
05/2014 Jason is awarded a Dean's Fellowship from Stanford University. Congratulations!
3/2013 Malcolm is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
12/2013 Rob is awarded a Dean's Fellowship from Stanford University. Congratulations!
12/2013 "HCN1 independent grid cell phase precession in mice" is published in Hippocampus
12/2013 "Topography of head direction cells in medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Current Biology
12/2013 Lisa is awarded a Whitehall Foundation Research Grant
9/2013 Jason joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Welcome!
9/2013 Rob joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Welcome!
5/2013 Caitlin joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
3/2013 Caitlin is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
2/2013 Lisa receives the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
04/2026 "Entorhinal cortex represents task-relevant remote locations independently of CA1" is published in Nature Neuroscience
03/2026 "State-dependent spatial maps for navigation" is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
10/2025 "Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Nature Communications
Stanford Press Coverage
9/2025 Faith joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
8/2025 Louisa joins the lab as a Simons Undergraduate Research Fellow. Welcome!
6/2025 "A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward" is published in Nature Neuroscience
11/2024 "Spatial representation: How fish know their place" is published in Current Biology
10/2024 "One-shot entorhinal maps enable flexible navigation in novel environments" is published in Nature
9/2024 Frances Cho is awarded an NRSA-F32 from NINDS!
9/2024 Rufei joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
9/2024 Kanha joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
9/2024 Richard joins the lab as a Life Science Research Professional. Welcome!
8/2024 Yanjun Sun is awarded an Independence Award from the Simons Foundation!
8/2024 Ella joins the lab as a Life Science Research Professional. Welcome!
7/2024 Lisa is named an HHMI Investigator
6/2024 Sky joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
5/2024 Mari Sosa is awarded a K99 from NIMH!
4/2023 Nakul joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
3/2024 "Subicular neurons encode concave and convex geometries" is published in Nature
3/2024 Michelle joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
2/2024 "Parahippocampal neurons encode task relevant information for goal-directed navigation" is published in eLife
10/2023 "Ketamine evoked disruption of entorhinal and hippocampal spatial maps" is published in Nature Communications
8/2023 Emily Jones is awarded a K99 from NINDS!
8/2023 Frances joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
7/2023 "Remapping in a recurrent neural network model of navigation and context inference" is published in eLife
2/2023 "Neural ensembles in navigation: from single cells to population codes" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
1/2023 Chelsea joins the lab as an MSTP student. Welcome!
11/2022 "Neural circuit dynamics of drug-context associative learning in the mouse hippocampus" is published in Nature Communications
10/2022 "A unified theory for the computational and mechanistic origins of grid cells" is published in Neuron
10/2022 "From rats to humans: how novel behavioral paradigms and reinforcement learning can bridge the gap in translation" is published in Lab Animal
9/2022 Can joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
6/2022 Lavonna joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
4/2022 "Task engagement turns on spatial maps" is published in Nature Neuroscience
3/2022 Emily Jones is awarded the AP Gianini postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
10/2021 Isabel wins second place in the Sammy Kuo Awards in Neuroscience. Congratulations!
9/2021 "Distance-tuned neurons drive specialized path integration calculation in medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Cell Reports
9/2021 Sam joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
8/2021 "The grid code for ordered experience" is published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
7/2021 "Dynamic and reversible remapping of network representations in an unchanging environment" is published in Neuron
Stanford Press Coverage
7/2021 "Navigating for reward" is published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
6/2021 Emily Jones is awarded a Deans Fellowship from Stanford University. Congratulations!
6/2021 Mari Sosa is awarded funding from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. Congratulations!
6/2021 Charlotte passes her qualification exam. Congratulations!
4/2021 "Spatial memory: Place cell activity is causally related to behavior" is published in Current Biology
3/2021 Linnie passes her qualification exam. Congratulations!
3/2021 "Experience-dependent contextual codes in the hippocampus" is published in Nature Neuroscience
1/2021 "Mouse entorhinal cortex encodes a diverse repertoire of self-motion signals" is published in Nature Communications
8/2020 The lab is awarded funding from the Simons Foundation on Plasticity and the Aging Brain
4/2020 Linnie joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
2/2020 "Multiple head direction signals within entorhinal cortex: original's and function" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
2/2020 "Topography in the bursting dynamics of entorhinal neurons" is published in Cell Reports
1/2020 "Entorhinal velocity signals reflect environmental geometry" is published in Nature Neuroscience
11/2019 "How a fly's neural compass adapts to an ever-changing world" in published in Nature
10/2019 Emily joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
9/2019 Mari joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
9/2019 Charlotte joins the lab as an MSTP Graduate Student. Welcome!
9/2019 Lisa is named a Vallee Scholar
5/2019 Tucker joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
4/2019 "The shifting sands of cortical divisions" is published in Neuron
3/2019 "Remembered reward locations restructure entorhinal spatial maps" is published in Science
Stanford Press Coverage
Quanta Magazine
The Scientist
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
1/2019 John Wen joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
12/2018 "Emergent elasticity in the neural code for space" is published in PNAS
8/2018 "Self-motion processing in visual and entorhinal cortices: Inputs, integration, and implications for position coding" is published
in Journal of Neurophysiology
7/2018 "Principles governing the interaction of landmark and self-motion cues in entorhinal cortical codes for navigation" is published in
Nature Neuroscience
Stanford Press Coverage
7/2018 Alex A is awarded funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Congratulations!
7/2018 Alex A joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
4/2018 Lisa receives a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research
4/2018 "Heterogeneity in hippocampal place coding" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
1/2018 "Grid scale drives the scale and long-term stability of place maps" is published in Nature Neuroscience
12/2017 "Spatial cognition: From entorhinal neural codes to navigation" News and Views is published in Nature Neuroscience
10/2017 "Cell types for our sense of location: where we are and where we are going" is published in Nature Neuroscience
9/2017 Yanjun joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
9/2017 The lab is awarded funding from NIDA
7/2017 The lab is awarded funding from the Simons Foundation
6/2017 Isabel joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
5/2017 Alex G joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
4/2017 "A multiplexed, heterogeneous, and adaptive code for navigation in medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Neuron
Stanford Press Coverage
Video Abstract
4/2017 Corey joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
8/2016 Lisa is named a James S McDonnell Foundation Scholar
7/2016 Kei joins the lab as an MSTP Graduate Student. Welcome!
7/2016 Will joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
7/2016 Mark joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
5/2016 Kiah is awarded a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!
11/2015 "Environmental boundaries as a mechanism for correcting and anchoring spatial maps" is published in Journal of Physiology
10/2015 The lab is awarded funding from NIMH
10/2015 Kiah wins the Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience. Congratulations!
5/2015 "Internal compass puts flies in their place" News and Views is published in Nature
5/2015 "Spatial Representation: Maps of fragmented space" Dispatch is published in Current Biology
4/2015 "Environmental boundaries as an error correction mechanism for grid cells" is published in Neuron
Preview by Hayman and Burgess
Stanford Press Coverage
Current Biology Coverage
4/2015 "Computational diversity in the hippocampus: a matter of components" Perspective is published in Journal of Physiology
1/2015 "Imagine a journey through time and space" News and Views is published in Nature Neuroscience
12/2014 Rob receives a Philip Wrightson Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand. Congratulations!
10/2015 Lisa is named a New York Stem Cell Foundation - Robertson Neuroscience Investigator
10/2014 "Large scale in vivo recordings to study neuronal biophysics" is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
09/2014 Lisa is awarded a Bio-X Seed Grant
07/2014 Malcolm joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
06/2014 Kiah joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
06/2014 Lisa is awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award
06/2014 Lisa is awarded a Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Research Award
06/2014 Lisa is selected as a member of The Allen Institute for Brain Science Next Generation Leaders
05/2014 Jason is awarded a Dean's Fellowship from Stanford University. Congratulations!
3/2013 Malcolm is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
12/2013 Rob is awarded a Dean's Fellowship from Stanford University. Congratulations!
12/2013 "HCN1 independent grid cell phase precession in mice" is published in Hippocampus
12/2013 "Topography of head direction cells in medial entorhinal cortex" is published in Current Biology
12/2013 Lisa is awarded a Whitehall Foundation Research Grant
9/2013 Jason joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Welcome!
9/2013 Rob joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Welcome!
5/2013 Caitlin joins the lab as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
3/2013 Caitlin is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
2/2013 Lisa receives the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship