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Jul09

Posters on molecular mediators of learning, dopamine and habit formation at #FENS2026

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This year, our entire lab is attending the FENS 2026 meeting in Barcelona. Four of our students present their projects on three posters. Graduate student Julia Schulz shows her work identifying additional molecular components of the motor learning pathway involving […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 9, 2026 at 12:02 Comments Off on Posters on molecular mediators of learning, dopamine and habit formation at #FENS2026
Nov13

Motor learning mechanisms at #SfN25

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Due to political developments, the US have become a much less welcoming and hence dramatically less attractive place for academic conferences. This year, nobody from our research group was interested in attending our otherwise regular meeting of the Society for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on November 13, 2025 at 09:34 Comments Off on Motor learning mechanisms at #SfN25
Oct01

Motor learning at #SfN24

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It has been almost 10 years now that we have come to the realization that a particular type of our operant experiments can be classified as motor learning. In such “operant self-learning” experiments, the animal learns about the consequences of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on October 1, 2024 at 17:28 Comments Off on Motor learning at #SfN24
Jul26

Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?

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I was very excited when our latest research paper came out, after all, I was confident our 30-year-long search for the sites of plasticity in the form of motor learning we study was coming to an end. In this work, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 26, 2024 at 12:27 Comments Off on Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?
Jan11

The speed (or lack thereof) of science

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It was my freshman year, 1991. I was enthusiastic to finally be learning about biology, after being forced to waste a year in the German army’s compulsory service at the time. Little did I know that it was the same […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on January 11, 2024 at 15:55 Comments Off on The speed (or lack thereof) of science
Nov07

Heading for #SfN23 with two posters

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It’s the time of the year again where 30,000 neuroscientists head to the US to talk neuroscience. This year the big annual conference is in Washington, DC, one of the three cities able to host this large event. Our first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on November 7, 2023 at 10:29 Comments Off on Heading for #SfN23 with two posters
Nov08

Interacting learning systems at SfN22

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I just sent the poster for this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting to the printer. As our graduate student is preparing his defense and our postdoc did not get a visa (no thanks, US!), we just have a single poster […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on November 8, 2022 at 15:27 1 Comment
Jul08

Off to Paris for #FENS2022 with two posters

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The first conference after the Sars CoV2 pandemic! We’re headed for Paris, France tomorrow and our lab will present two posters, the work of graduate student Andreas Ehweiner and postdoc Radostina Lyutova. Andreas has been working on the cellular and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 8, 2022 at 09:37 Comments Off on Off to Paris for #FENS2022 with two posters
Jul16

Tagging and knocking out FoxP with CRISPR/Cas9

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The FoxP gene family comprises a set of transcription factors that gained fame because of their involvement in the acquisition of speech and language. While early hypotheses circulated about its function as a ‘learning gene’, a simultaneous “motor-hypothesis” stipulated that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 16, 2020 at 11:29 Comments Off on Tagging and knocking out FoxP with CRISPR/Cas9
Oct17

With CRISPRed FoxP and habit formation to #SfN19

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Tomorrow we travel to the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and our diligent scientists have already printed their posters! Ottavia Palazzo will present her work on genome editing the FoxP locus of Drosophila with anatomical and behavioral characterizations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on October 17, 2019 at 16:32 Comments Off on With CRISPRed FoxP and habit formation to #SfN19