Interested in social interaction between rat pups and the mother? Check out my 1st PhD work. 👇🏻

Really enjoyed visiting WöhrLab at KU Leuven! Thank you Markus Wöhr for inviting me. Also had the opportunity to visit the University’s beautiful library and botanical garden.

End-of-year dinner for Wöhr lab! 🎄 Time to discuss important matters, like..when will we get a new coffee machine?!

New team member! Very happy to welcome Sara Mejía Chávez who is joining the WöhrLab LBP and our efforts to better understand neurobiological mechanisms underlying socio-affective communication in rodents Leuven Brain Institute KU Leuven.

📢 LBP is excited to announce a new lab member for WöhrLab! Welcome on board Sara Mejía Chávez!

Very happy and grateful to be working in the WöhrLab!

Very excited to share BlueBerry, our publicly available, multichannel wireless optogenetic device for freely moving rodents! Visit OptoBlueBerry.com for documentation, and see our preprint for details: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our study describing a role for the circular RNA circRERE in the regulation of silent excitatory synapses is finally out Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…

International Winter Neuroscience Conference in Sölden, Austria: Very much enjoyed our joint symposium on social behavior. I learnt a lot from Ewelina Knapska, Valeria Gazzola, and Francesco Papaleo. Amazing work on emotion recognition, social learning, and pro-social behavior.

Good news! First publication available! Behavioural Brain Research special issue on "Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents" The study reports on a cooperatively breeding mouse that shows flexible use of its vocal repertoire according to social context: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

Very excited to share our early release paper in Journal of Neuroscience about autism/ataxia associated gene FAT2! Congrats to Xiankun &Yadi& Jifei and all co-authors！🌟 🎉 🎉🎉 SfN Journals Markus Wöhr Peking University Shenzhen Bay Lab jneurosci.org/content/early/…

Inspiring ERA Net Neuron MINERVA meeting Philipps-Universität with great presentations by Carsten Wotjak from Boehringer Ingelheim and Theresa Kisko, PhD from WöhrLab KU Leuven. Thanks to Carsten Culmsee for making this happen!

Nice completion of my core PhD work. (I personally like this story more than the 1st one🤫). Thanks to Markus and all other collaborators. ❤️

Perfect combination: Good weather, beautiful mountains, and awesome science – retreat of the DFG-funded RTG Breaking Expectations Breaking Expectations. Thanks to Parnian Saberi from the WöhrLab for her inspiring talk on serotonin and expectancy violations. DFG public | @[email protected]

New team member! Very happy to welcome Henry Werk who is joining the WöhrLab Philipps-Universität site. He will study the effects of lithium in a rat model for mania, integrating brain and behavior through recording 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations. Looking forward to exciting science.

It’s that time of the year again: LBP retreat! Rudi D’Hooge and Markus Wöhr labs gathered together for 2 full days of science. A special thank you to Dr. Elodie Ey for bringing her expertise on animal research to this event!

Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

There is always a bit of time for fun! Last week we had a LBP social event with a customised quiz about our colleagues and faculty, pizza and..

I feel honored for the opportunity to present our recent work on the role of serotonin in regulating ultrasonic vocalizations in mice and rats across development at the 4th Ultrasonic Vocalization Conference tomorrow (online): ultrasonicvocalizations.net

📢New paper alert! Check it out below👇🏼