A septal-ventral tegmental area circuit drives exploratory behavior My PhD work has been published in Neuron and I couldn’t be happier! A thread 🧵(1/n) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm so proud to share my Ph.D. work from Ofer Yizhar 💔's lab, now on bioRxiv. We developed a new approach for transcranial optogenetic silencing in untethered and freely-behaving pups, exploring the role of oxytocin in early-life social behavior >> biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Come work with us! 🙌🏼🧠🐭

If you are interested in brains and beers, and hang around in Würzburg on Wed next week, here's something for you:

DefenseCircuitsLab Universitätsklinikum Würzburg Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg Yes, only you know how difficult it is to control your brain. What if we tell you some brains can be controlled with light! 🔦🎮 Come and listen to Silvia Rodriguez-Rozada to know what happens when you switch the lights on. DefenseCircuitsLab #Optogenetics #BrainAwarenessWeek

🥳Finally, the day is here! #BrainWeek event in Wurzburg is TODAY! We're eagerly awaiting you for an unforgettable evening filled with insightful talks, competition and brain art! DefenseCircuitsLab Silvia Rodriguez-Rozada Würzburg FlyNeurogenetics Jan M Ache Chris J Dallmann Universitätsklinikum Würzburg #EventDay 👇

It’s a wrap! Our Brain Awareness Week event was a success 🤩 We had a full house, great talks and engaging discussions with the public 🧠🍻 #Scicomm #BrainAwarenessWeek Thank you to all the speakers, organizing team & neuro-aficionados that joined!

If you are interested in this kind of research (or large-scale in-vivo recordings to study movement), please reach out! I am recruiting PhD and postdocs for a new lab 😉. 🔗yangfanpeng.info

It’s happening, we are online 🥹 Great project and lots of fun with Ruth Sims and all co-authors in the EmilianiLab at Institut de la Vision #rhodopsinGEVI #Scanless2P

Do you like to join the DCL as a PhD? We are hiring a new cohort of students for the doctoral school "Approach-Avoidance" uni-wuerzburg.de/grk2660/

And the tools for inhibiting synaptic transmission at axonal terminals keep improving! 🤩 🚨Check out the new PdCO Congrats to everyone! Teamwork makes the dream work 🙌🏼 Super nice and informative thread @JWietek 👌🏼

Great news🥳- the Berlin-Würzburg Collaborative Research Center "Retune" is funded for another 4-year period! Thanks to all members and affiliates- the DCL is looking forward to working with you!

Happy to share that our article on the COMBO window is now published!  #PLOSBiology plos.io/3yUeOKx Huge thanks to our incredible team and the reviewers! 🙌 #openscience MPI for Biological Intelligence MBExC Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG) Uni Göttingen Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

Wanna hear about dopamine prediction errors underlying fear and extinction learning? Come by tomorrow morning to our two posters at #FENSForum2024!! We are P001 and 002, easy to find 😉 (PS. I’m also on the search for my next position 🤓)

Got a great first-hand preview of the story from @LabouesseMarie at #FENS2024 during the GPCRs Technical Workshop - organized by J. Simon Wiegert and Ofer Yizhar 💔. Can’t wait to dig into the paper for all the details! 🤓

Inhale, exhale… 🧘🏼‍♀️ Yoga sessions with an amazing view at #OptoGRC2024 thanks to Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. Feeling grounded and energized for the last keynote session on Clinical Applications of Optogenetics Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference

📢Big news, please RT🎉 I will be starting as a TT Assistant Professor (W2) of Neuroscience at Universität München in April 2025! The Schroeder lab will study how the brain 🧠 generates internal states, and then uses this information to adapt behavior in dynamic environments. 👇A🧵

🎄PinkyCaMP- our christmas gift to you! 🎁: We are excited to present PinkyCaMP, the first mScarlet based calcium sensor with: ✨exceptional, brightness ✨phototability ✨and optogenetic compatability. Check out our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…