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 […]
The 1st Portugues lab Fixathon!
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 […]
1st Munich Brain Day
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 […]
Cajal behavior course satellite
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 […]
Summer school season is over
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 […]
Paris Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
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 […]
COSYNE 2022
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 […]
The Lab celebrates spring & loosening regulations!
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 […]
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells sculpt the visual system by regulating axonal remodeling
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! […]
Functional and ultrastructural analysis of reafferent mechanosensation in larval zebrafish
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 […]