📢🚨Postdoc Opportunity📢🚨 Join us Universität München to study how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroscience technologies and offers a supportive environment 🤗! ⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025 Learn more and apply: fens.org/careers/job-ma…

Less than 2 weeks until the deadline! ⏱️🧪

Finally out! We used a translational approach to reveal a conserved role of the superior colliculus–ventral tegmental area pathway in social orienting deficits across species. ⁦Marie Schaer⁩ ⁦Alessandro Contestabile⁩ ⁦Nada Kojovic⁩ nature.com/articles/s4138…

📢New preprint alert! We watch ATP, the energy currency, in tiny compartments of brain synapses to show that synapses talk to their local mitochondria to produce energy right when needed during plasticity: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Lots of recent papers discuss the nucleus of the solitary tract in interoception. In this review, we take a sensory processing perspective on how interoceptive signals are encoded in the NTS: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to share a new publication from my postdoc days, shedding light on how distal tuft dendrites participate in hippocampal place field formation while mice learn to navigate: cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Thank you to Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Communications for the great write-up!

Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

See you all there! 🥨🧠🍻 munichbrainday.com

Very grateful 🙏to have been selected for the Rise up! program from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation 🎉. The €600,000 in funding 💰will help advance our research into the neural circuits that drive fear, anxiety and emotional behavior Universität München! 🧠 lmu.de/en/newsroom/ne…

Honored & grateful to receive the 2025 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award!🙏 Looking forward to #ECNP2025 in Amsterdam & to sharing our work on the neurobiology of stress & anxiety! Thank you @ECNPtweets & all current and previous lab members! ecnp.eu/ena-winner2025/ #ECNP

🧵1\New Preprint! Social pain, the emotional pain caused by aversive experiences with other individuals, is an umbrella term that includes experiences such as social isolation, social exclusion, social rejection, and social loss and can be used as a signal to drive a need state

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Coming up this week! 🧠 neurodowo.nwg-info.de

Heading to EBBS? (ebbs2025.azuleon.org) Don’t miss our session (co-chaired w/Suzanne Dickson) on how physiological states shape behavior. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers (Linda Engström Ruud, Amelia Douglass, Nicolas Gutierrez-Castellanos, anne petzold). See you in Bordeaux! 🍷

Our department chair has been appointed as the new Vice President of Universität München! Congratulations Benedikt Grothe! 🎉🤗

Finally it's out! nature.com/articles/s4158… Thanks to Felix Baier, Karl Farrow and Hopi Hoekstra! And a big thank you to all the co-authors, reviewers, host institutes and funding sources! Bram Nuttin, Arnau Sans Dublanc, Chen Liu, Victoria Tong, Julie Murmann and Keimpe Wierda

📢🚨Teamassistenz gesucht! Unterstützen Sie die Abteilung Neurobiologie 🧠 Universität München – bitte weitersagen. 📢🚨 We’re hiring an administrative assistant in the Department of Neurobiology! Spread the word. ⏳Deadline: 15. Sept. 2025 Learn more & apply: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/25f…

Happy to announce our new paper just out: rdcu.be/eBpGY We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep helping to understand how stress impacts sleep Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team in work led by Simone Astori EPFL Brain Mind Institute EPFL

Congratulations Chao Sun!!! 🎉

📢 🚨 Technical Assistant Opportunity in Neuroscience 📢 🚨 Join us at Universität München and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior! ⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025 Learn more and apply: fens.org/careers/job-ma…