Loren M. Frank

2 months ago | thetransmitter.org | Calli McMurray |Loren M. Frank |Samuel J. Gershman |Caitlin James

Life as a researcher comes with a mountain of paperwork. Among the most time-consuming are the forms a scientist must submit to an institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) that detail proposed animal experiments, according to surveys on administrative burden. A new protocol-sharing site that launched 15 January aims to lighten the load.

Oct 8, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Loren M. Frank |Samuel J. Gershman |Daniel Aharoni |Jill Adams

There is a growing recognition in the neuroscience community that efforts to improve data-sharing are, at least in principle, a good idea. Sharing the data generated by experiments is critical for reproducibility, and it enables reuse of data that may have taken years to collect. Sharing the code used to transform data into scientific results is also critical, both to boost reproducibility and to reduce the amount of time trainees spend developing these tools.

Oct 8, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Paul Middlebrooks |Brady Huggett |Jill Adams |Loren M. Frank

Special faculty research associate, Carnegie Mellon University;Contributor, The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Brain Inspired, Artificial intelligence, Computational neuroscience, NeuroAI, Systems neuroscience The Transmitter has partnered with “Brain Inspired,” a podcast hosted by Paul Middlebrooks that features in-depth conversations with neuroscientists studying natural and artificial intelligence, philosophy, consciousness and other related areas.

Nov 6, 2023 | thetransmitter.org | Loren M. Frank |Lauren Schenkman |Angie Voyles Askham |Olivia Gieger

Loren Frank is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is also director of the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF. His laboratory uses a combination of techniques to study the neural bases of learning, memory and decision-making. In particular, his work focuses on the hippocampus and related structures, brain areas critical for forming and retrieving memories for the events of daily life.