Nachum Ulanovsky was the first to record neural activity in a freely moving bat. By doing so, he was able to investigate how cells in the hippocampus encode a spatial representation of the three-dimensional environment. For these accomplishments, Ulanovsky received the Young Investigator Award in 2015. Here, he discusses his research.
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Nachum Ulanovsky, PhD
Nachum Ulanovsky is an associate professor in the department of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. His lab studies the neurobiology of learning and memory and the relationship between brain activity and behavior — specifically, neural activity in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. His lab examines key components of the brain's 'navigation circuit' — place cells, grid cells and head-direction cells — and asks questions about spatial memory and neural codes for space in 2-D and 3-D, in both crawling and freely-flying bats. He earned his BSc in physics from Tel Aviv University, obtained his PhD in neural computation at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland.
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