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Great to see Oxford Biomedica, a firm that is intimately involved in manufacture of anti-Covid vaccines, extol the virtues of training apprentices through the ATAC programme in whose inception I was involved: "Before recruiting and upskilling talent through the ATAC programme,...
Oxford Biomedica's approach was to only hire highly experienced ...candidates or university graduates for their roles. Continuing to hire from such a limited recruitment base was going to become problematic and a potential barrier to Oxford Biomedica attracting future talent ..
for company growth." But the ATAC programme has "provided Oxford Biomedica with a structured programme that allowed them to significantly deliver on their skills demands ...This year Oxford Biomedica will have 4% of their workforce accounted for by apprentices" and ...
Neural ensembles are groups of co-active neurons that may be triggered spontaneously, by sensory stimuli or behavior. Such ensembles are therefore likely to constitute the building blocks of brain function, but little is known about their structure, organization and dynamics.
Studying neural ensembles relies on our ability to identify them. Unlike existing methods, @Giovann82176354 provides a model based approach that uses Bayesian inference techniques to obtain probabilistic estimates of the number, composition and dynamics of neural ensembles.
By applying this method my 2-photon volumetric recordings of spontaneous activity in the optic tectum we recover the structure of multiple spatially compact ensembles spanning multiple imaging planes. (note: this visualization was controlled by a Nintendo 64!)
