On Friday June 25th Vilim Štih successfully defended his PhD thesis: congratulations Vilim. The defense was held via Zoom, but Vilim gave his talk from the lecture theater in Biederstein […]
Preprint on gating of mechanosensory reafferent feedback
Iris Odstrcil’s paper from the Engert Lab on how the larval zebrafish deals with self-stimulation of its own lateral line is out on the bioRxiv. This is a great example […]
Brainrender collaboration is out in eLife
Luigi’s collaboration with Federico Claudi and Adam Tyson from the labs of Troy Margrie and Tiago Branco at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre is out in eLife: Visualizing anatomically registered data […]
OPC collaboration
Our collaboration with the Czopka Lab is out on the bioRxiv. The study looks at the non-myelinating role that oligodendrocyte precursor cells may be playing in the optic tectum of […]
MS paper published
The manuscript Phagocyte-mediated synapse removal in cortical neuroinflammation is promoted by local calcium accumulation from the Merkler, Misgeld and Kerschensteiner labs appeared in Nature Neursocience. It was a pleasure to […]
BrainGlobe Atlas API paper is published
BrainGlobe Atlas API: a common interface for neuroanatomical atlases is out in The Journal of Open Source Software. We were happy to be able to contribute to this work together […]
Mushroom body collaboration published
We collaborated with Siju and Sophie from Ilona Grunwald Kadow’s lab on the study of dopaminergic neurons in the fly mushroom body. It is available now in the journal Current […]
Calcium sensor collaboration published
Subach’s group from Russia developed FGCaMP7, a novel calcium indicator that contains a subunit from fungi which prevents its interaction with intracellular calmodulin. This ratiometric sensor can detect active and […]
Temporarily distributed lab
Physical isolation not a reason to stop doing science. Exciting data analyses, crazy new ideas, discussions, online courses, participating in virtual conferences, and virtual coffee breaks. Our lab is still […]
Pre-print on cerebellar function
Larval zebrafish can adapt their swimming behavior in response to changes in the environment in two ways. Firstly, they can adapt their behavior within a single swimming bout in response […]