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NeuroDoWo 2022 was a huge success
Our swarm of Ph.D. students went to Cologne for this year's edition of the Neurobiology Doctoral Students Workshop (NeuroDoWo), which was a huge success.
Katja Slangewal received the best poster award for her work "Integrating multiple sources of information, how does the brain do it?", and Yannick Günzel received the best talk award for his presentation "Hopper by name, hopper by nature. The state-dependent startle response of the desert locust."
Per our tradition, the NeuroDoWo goes to the city with the most participants, which means it is coming to Konstanz in 2023.
30. Juni 2022
New paper from Armin's group: 'Collective behavior emerges from genetically controlled simple behavioral motifs in zebrafish'
Harpaz et al. (2021) is out! Roy, Ariel, Sydney, Sierra, Marie-Abèle, Florian, Mark and Armin found that changes in the genetic makeup of individuals can alter collective behavior. They demonstrated that genetic mutations associated with human social behavior, in individual larval zebrafish can affect collective behaviors in a predictable way.
5. Oktober 2021
Visit and talk by Lukas Anneser
On Friday Lukas Anneser visited Konstanz to give the inaugural lecture of the new Centre for Visual Computing of Collectives. In his fascinating talk he linked the expression of a specific hormone (neuropeptide parathyroid hormone 2) through mechanosensation to the encoding of social density in Zebrafish. It was great to have Lukas over for a visit and we look forward to more hybrid talks.
30. September 2021
'Circuits and Behavior' conference
Our visit to the 'Circuits and Behavior' conference in Tuscany was a great success. The combination of interesting presentations, fruitful discussions, and delicious italian food created a fantastic atmosphere. We went back to Konstanz with many new ideas and are looking forward to Neurotuscany 2022 and many more (online) discussions in the meantime.
2. September 2021
New Paper from Armin's and Katrin's Group: Navigational strategies underlying temporal phototaxis in Drosophila larvae
Maxwell's paper on Drosophila larval phototaxis is out: In this paper we test the ability of Drosophila larvae to navigate virtual luminance gradients, only providing them with temporal brightness cues. We find that animals can integrate brightness information over time during decision-making. Congratulations to an absolutely outstanding undergraduate, Maxwell Zhu, who came up with the experimental paradigm and has done all those experiments. It has been a pleasure working with you!
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/224/11/jeb242428/269086/Navigational-strategies-underlying-temporal
10. Juni 2021
New paper from Einat’s group: Social modulation of individual preferences in cockroaches
What is the reason for behaving differently in public? Working on this question in gregarious cockroaches that use communal housing (shelters), they have discovered that the reason relates to interactions between food- and social- sensitive neurons.
21. Januar 2021
Talk by Nikolai Hörmann (MPI-N Munich)
Niko talked about his PhD work that he did in the lab of Alexander Borst: "A combinatorial code of transcription factors specifies subtypes of visual motion-sensing neurons in Drosophila". He agreed to come back in February to help us set up RNA-sequencing-related techniques.
30. Oktober 2020
