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(Not-so) Recent News
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Maria Skornyakova visiting the lab for a week for her high school work experience
09/02/2026
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Rohan gave a talk at the Neural Systems seminar series in DPAG
28/01/2026
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Pharmacology Dept Research Symposium: Rohan gave a talk; Jasper, Mengke and Dilay presented posters. Mengke awarded best staff poster
16/01/2026
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Rohan, Abel, and Mia's (Summerfield Lab) COSYNE abstract submissions were accepted for COSYNE 2026 in Lisbon
December 2026
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Rohan's first author paper, "Orbitofrontal-sensory cortical interactions in learning and adaptive decision-making" published in TICS
04/12/2025
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Lab Christmas Symposium
04/12/2025
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Patrick Degenaar (Newcastle) and Mayank Mehta (UCLA) visiting the lab
03/12/2025
Jeff Dalley (Cambridge) visiting the lab
02/12/2025
Jasper presenting a poster at the Blizard EAB and Naomi Curnow (UCL) visiting the lab
24/11/2025
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"Biological subtyping of autism via cross-species fMRI" preprint accepted in Nature Neuroscience
22/11/2025
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Ioanna Pandi awarded a FENS/IBRO PhD fellowship to visit the lab for 4-6 months
17/11/2025
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Evie joining the lab for her year-long Master's project (in-person in Oxford a few days a week)
Michaelmas 2025
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Gabriel Bontemps (Paris) joining the lab for a summer visit
12/07/2025​
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Mengke (previously Imperial) joins the lab
28/04/2025
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Alex Cayco-Gajic (ENS) visiting the lab
25/04/2025
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Jasper successfully defended his PhD viva!
04/04/2025
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Dilay awarded an MSD Clarendon Fund Scholarship to join as a DPhil student in Michaelmas 2025
14/03/2025
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Abhi, Rohan and Dilay visiting Alex Cayco-Gajic's lab in ENS (Paris)
10/02/2025
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Laura joining the lab for her Hilary term rotation project (DTP Year 1)
06/01/2025
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Dilay joining the lab for her Hilary term rotation project (MSc Neuroscience)
06/01/2025
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Rohan visiting Bekinschtein Lab, Cambridge
Mon, 17/10/2022
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MRC-AMED meeting in Karuizawa, RIKEN/ATR visit
Mon, 28/09/2022
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Michael Goard visiting the lab
Thurs, 08/09/2022
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Lab Posters at FENS
July 9-13, 2022
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30/03/2021
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27/03/2021
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03/09/2020
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Thu, 12/03/2020
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Mon, 24/02/2020
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Thu, 07/11/2019
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Welcome to Abhishek Banerjee's Lab Homepage.
Abhi is a Professor of Neuroscience at Barts and the London School of Medicine/Queen Mary and a PI at the University of Oxford, UK. Abhi's lab is interested in studying neural circuit mechanisms underlying the flexibility of decision-making and how circuit dysfunctions arise in animal models of neurological disorders.
Research
The research in the Adaptive Decisions Lab is focused on understanding the dynamics of micro and mesoscopic circuits, with the primary goal to elucidate how dysfunction in mechanisms at either spatial scale leads to pathophysiology in autism spectrum disorders. We achieve this by combining rodent behavioural tasks with novel mesoscopic and 2-photon calcium imaging, optogenetics, and region-specific CRISPR-Cas9 editing of disease-related genes.
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Collaborators:
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Flexible decision-making in humans (Dr Burkhard Pleger, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)
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Emerging algorithms in reinforcement learning (Prof. Walter Senn, Universität Bern, Switzerland)
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Bayesian models of behaviour (Prof. Mark Humphries, University of Nottingham, UK)
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Reinforcement learning models of behaviour (Prof. Chris Summerfield, University of Oxford, UK)
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Neuromorphic engineering and machine learning (Dr Mattia Rigotti, IBM, Switzerland)
Decoding Statistical Nature of Decision-making in Rodents
Inhibitory Interneurons in Neural Circuit Function and Dysfunction
Cellular and Molecular mechanisms behind Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Brain-wide PV+ interneuron distribution
Cell-specific MeCP2 deletion in Rett syndrome
Synapse-specific Plasticity
and Learning Rules
Emerging algorithms in Reinforcement Learning
Investigating Task-dependent Neural Dynamics in Cortical Circuits
Patch-clamp slice electrophysiology
Local and long-range cortico-thalamic projections
Ca2+ responses from cortical L2/3 neurons