Portugues Lab retreat 2023
Our lab retreat (June 18th – June 23rd) was held at the TUM research station in the Alps. We had a packed program full of scientific talks, cooking, activities, games […]
Institute of Neuroscience - TUM
Our lab retreat (June 18th – June 23rd) was held at the TUM research station in the Alps. We had a packed program full of scientific talks, cooking, activities, games […]
In our lab we build our own microscopes and write our own software. This prompted us to start a new tradition in which lab members focus their energy on fixing […]
It was a great incredible experience to organise and be a part of the very first Munich Brain Day – an initiative, spearheaded by the Munich Center for Neurosciences and […]
We are excited to be a host satellite of the Cajal course, Modern Approaches to Behavioural Analysis. This course combines online lectures and onsite exercises with local TAs. Focusing on the tool […]
Cajal Course: Interacting with Neural Circuits This summer Emanuele went to the Cajal Summer Course “Interacting with Neural Circuits” in the wonderful Lisbon as a student. There, he learned principles of in vivo all-optical interrogation experiments […]
One of our Ph.D. students, Shuhong Huang, recently attended the summer school in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Paris. Here’s his feedback from this fantastic experience: “I am glad […]
One of our PhD students, Luigi Petrucco, recently presented our work on identifying a heading direction network in the larval zebrafish at COSYNE 2022. Look out for the manuscript coming […]
After a very long time, the whole lab is back to in-person meetings! The first one was celebrated by enjoying some amazing pizza, refreshments, and early-spring weather. While enjoying these […]
A collaboration from the lab is out! Did you ever wonder what all the oligodendrocyte precursors in the brain are up to when they don’t make myelin? They fine-tune circuits! […]
The ability to differentiate between external sensory inputs and reafferent inputs that arise from one’s own locomotion is imperative to navigate environments. This was explored in a study done in […]