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🎉 Attention PhD candidates! 🎉 Exciting news — the DFG is launching a new graduate school in Leipzig, offering 40 PhD positions in the fields of neuroscience, biology, and medicine. Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your research career! More details will follow! 🌟🧠
Unsere Nachwuchsforschergruppe zu den zellulären und molekularen Grundlagen von dopaminabhängigem Suchtverhalten ist kofinanziert von der Europäischen Union und wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes.
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How do brains make decisions when faced with multiple, potentially conflicting cues? In our latest preprint, we show how #zebrafish use an additive strategy and process multiple visual features through anatomically distinct parallel pathways tinyurl.com/mvkn8em9 Thread 👇
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Latest paper from @gsxej and my new lab @UniLeipzig. We identify the neurons of the fly neck connective in multiple connectomes, show their sensory-motor circuits and quantify differences between the female and male.
Nature research paper: Comparative connectomics of Drosophila descending and ascending neurons.
go.nature.com/3SfKoZK
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We welcome all participants of the 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neurosicence Society.We are delighted to host you in Göttingen, to share knowledge and to exchange research results and ideas. #NWG2025
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The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva:
Multimodal social context modulates behavior in larval Drosophila
doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.6…
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Looking for an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of neuroscience and connectomics? We are hiring a Connectomics Data Analysis Engineer. Expect to implement the latest machine learning methods for connectomics and develop your own! crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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The application deadline for the Cold Spring Harbor Labs "Drosophila Neurobiology: Genes, Circuits & Behavior" course (June 26-July 17 2025) has been extended to April 2 2025.
Course and registration information can be found here meetings.cshl.edu/courses.as…
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New paper published! What a beautiful and comprehensive cooperation in Leipzig! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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1/ How do animals integrate different forms of learning? Our @Eyal_Roz new study in @ScienceAdvances shows that active mechanisms prevent the co-formation of competing memories. Here’s what we found! 🧵👇
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Art by @Ella_Maru
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🥳 BIG NEWS for the lab! 🥳 I'm excited to join the Göttingen neuroscience community and the excellence cluster @MBExC_de as a tenure-track group leader at the European Neuroscience Institute (ENI-G), where we will continue neural circuit research in a great research environment!
A very warm welcome to Oliver Barnstedt (@obarnstedt) joining @MBExC_de and @yourUMG as junior research group leader for "Multiscale Circuit Analysis".
Have a great start!
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I digested two @Nature papers from @crezaval and
@MikeCrickmore about flexible integration and decision-making in Drosophila courtship and mating. Out came this dispatch for @CurrentBiology:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED…
Enjoy reading!
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Our latest study on Drosophila larval search behavior is now live on @biorxivpreprint! 🪰✨ Explore how larvae navigate their world. Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #Drosophila #BehavioralBiology #Preprint
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Registration is now open for our Workshop. Please apply here: sites.google.com/view/crete-…. Deadline November 30th.
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Controlling the forces needed to move around is pretty complicated for soft-bodied organisms. Researchers have implemented a new technique for measuring these crawling forces with nanonewton precision in fruit fly larvae. elifesciences.org/articles/8…
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I will present my poster today at @neurofly2024 🪰 Come and learn about the cannibalistic behaviour of fly larvae.
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Yesterday's TV interview on NDR talk show - bees among German showbiz stars 🙂
youtube.com/watch?v=rVw2nGgq…