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Check out our new website design defense-circuits-lab.com featuring a hearty brain and project updates! And while you are there- we are hiring, please spread the word! Apply now for a postdoc, a data scientist or asisstant position available from July onwards.

Yesterday we had the honor to welcome Prof. Valery Grinevich & Dr. Eduard Maier from Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit at our Dinner Meeting. They gave an exciting talk on "Operating Principles of the Brain Oxytocin System" & "Behavioral & Neural Correlates of Play-Associated Habituation". 🐁

📢 CEN is hiring an early career researcher for 20 months at DefenseCircuitsLab Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg The project studies cerebellar neural circuits during emotional states in mouse models. #Neuroscience 🧠🐁 #SpreadTheWord  #JoinUs Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Apply by the 30th July 👉cen-itn.net/job-offers/

A few months ago Karl Deisseroth & team achieved a huge milestone in the cardiac opto & interoception fields! I enjoyed highlighting this great work at Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy(STTT) with DefenseCircuitsLab & Stefan Frantz Universitätsklinikum Würzburg Exciting times for 🫀/🧠 research! nature.com/articles/s4139…

Congratulations to Dr. Sara! You. made. it. possible. We will miss you!

Excited about our joint lab retreat with the Letzkus Lab next week! Let's see what happens if you throw together a bunch of cortex and brainstem people!

Neocortical and defense circuit people ready for wetlab work! Results will follow...

Interested in the interactions of emotions and motor control in the brainstem? The Defense Circuits Lab is seeking a Postdoc with rodent circuit neuroscience experience for a 4-year project in the framework of the Comprehensive Research Center Retune (sfb-retune.de/de/home-de/)

In case you missed it- we recently published our low-cost and efficient lab standard of recording and analyzing heart rate in freely moving mice (bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?id…).

🎉Join the RTG! We have 13 PhD positions available in our translational Research Training Group 2660 on approach and avoidance behaviour👀

Get to know the RTG 2660 🥳youtu.be/zO2d8fcB8rk?fe…

Super proud of Nina, DCL's first PhD student, to receive the University's prize for her outstanding PhD thesis. Congratulations!🤘

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/

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!

Ok, fellow scientists. We never had a very strong presence on this platform- yet, enough is enough. Science is impartial to politics. Our lab is an inclusive and open-minded organisation and will remain as such. This isn't compatible with X and its leadership any longer.

We are thus moving to Bluesky, where you can find us under defensecircuitslab.bsky.social

Hope to see many of you back there!