Congratulations to Zhaoyang on successfully defending his doctoral thesis at CIBR!
Zhaoyang joined the lab in 2022 as a Ph.D. student in the joint doctoral program between CIBR and Capital Medical University. During his Ph.D. studies, he investigated hippocampal representational drift in nonspatial odor–reward associative memory, focusing on how individual neurons change their contributions to relatively stable task-related representations across days. His work revealed that neuronal reallocation exhibits temporal continuity and population-level structure beyond independent neuronal changes, with relatively preserved geometry in neuronal weight space and information-dependent drift directions. He further found that neurons with more stable recruitment contribute to more task-related components and occupy more central positions in functional networks.
