🔥A new study led by Lopez_Bendito Lab at Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC is now published on Nature Communications 🙌 Researchers have discovered a brain plasticity mechanism that allows the reorganization of the sense of touch during development More info 👇 in.umh-csic.es/en/articulos/a…

Did you get a chance to check out our latest publication yet? Huge congratulations to Mar Aníbal-Martínez for leading this work and all colleagues and collaborators that participated in this beautiful project, published in Nature Communications! Guille Lopez-Bendito Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC nature.com/articles/s4146…

Tomorrow April 4 Guille Lopez-Bendito will be talking with students at INCYL about the interplay of spontaneous activity and genetic programs in the context of brain circuit development. Let's inspire the younger generations! 🔬 Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC

Interested in the role of astrocyte-neuron interactions in sensory circuit assembly? Tomorrow April 16th from 2-4PM, our colleague Francesco will be sharing his latest results in poster booth #58 at the #EMBOastrocytes workshop! Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC SENC

Learn more about astrocyte remodelling in the visual thalamus following early enucleation by visiting our colleague Pablo’s poster tomorrow April 16th from 2-4PM in booth #61 at the #EMBOastrocytes workshop. Do not miss it! Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC SENC

Huge congratulations to Mar Aníbal-Martínez on successfully defending her PhD thesis today at Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC- now officially Dr. Aníbal-Martínez! 🎓 An impressive presentation and discussion with her thesis director Guille Lopez-Bendito and the committee. A proud moment for all of us in the lab!

🚨 Live now at #CorticalDev2025: Teresa Guillamon-Vivancos is presenting her exciting work on how early molecular cues and neural activity shape sensory specificity in the developing cortex 🧠✨ Don't miss this deep dive into the roots of cortical development! Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC Guille Lopez-Bendito

Today, the #IN_ResearchProgram ‘Building & adapting circuits into functional networks’ hosted a seminar featuring presentations by 4th-year PhD students Chiara Nappi, Francesco Dori, Ana Moreno Cerdá & Patricia Ordoño Carramina 👏 Francisco J Taberner Lopez_Bendito Lab Juan Antonio Moreno-Bravo Lab E. Herrera

🧠✨ Save the date! SPONT 2026 — 4th Meeting on Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development 📅 October 19–22, 2026 📍 Atami, Japan 🇯🇵 Join us for cutting-edge science in a stunning coastal setting! #Neuroscience #BrainDevelopment #SPONT2026

As EMBO Young Investigator Programme Chair, Guille Lopez-Bendito has helped drive a collective effort to rethink how research is assessed. The initiative brought together the EMBO community to explore more responsible and inclusive evaluation practices👇 embo.org/features/engag…

🗣️ Opening Plenary Lecture | Guillermina López-Bendito Join us on 4 July 2026 as Prof. Guillermina López-Bendito opens next year's #FENSForum! 🧠 Her groundbreaking work on sensory circuit development is paving the way to restore vision and hearing in patients – a powerhouse of

The 5th #SciencePhoto_IN has begun! Let's kick it off by voting for our colleague Fabrizio Favaloro 's photo: "No mental sweat, no neural net" 🧠 Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC Guille Lopez-Bendito

Excited to share our new preprint on #thalamus development! 🧠 We reveal how sensory and non-sensory circuits are specified early in embryogenesis using #mutiomics, #spatialtranscriptomics, #lineagetracing. Lopez_Bendito Lab Jose P López-Atalaya Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 New preprint on bioRxiv! #singlecell #multiomics, #spatialtranscriptomics, #lineagetracing reveal 2 glutamatergic lineages arising from distinct progenitors; Sp9 drives visual #thalamus fate. By Lorenzo Puche et al. Guille Lopez-Bendito Jose P López-Atalaya Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🔥Thrilled to collab with Guille Lopez-Bendito Lopez_Bendito Lab on decoding #thalamus #development! Led Lorenzo Puche, we reveal that sensory and non-sensory thalamic circuits emerge via distinct cell trajectories and gene programmes! Sp9 key for visual fate acquisition! 🔗biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢We're hiring a PhD student! If you are interested in how spontaneous activity and genetic programs shape sensory cortical development, please find more information in the post below on how to apply! Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC

📢New review published in Nature Rev Neurosci on the advances in the genetic, molecular, and activity-dependent mechanisms that guide thalamic axons and shape sensory-specific pathways in the brain! Teresa Guillamon-Vivancos Mar Aníbal-Martínez Lorenzo Puche Guille Lopez-Bendito Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC nature.com/articles/s4158…

Sensory modality-specific wiring of thalamocortical circuits — a Review by Teresa Guillamón-Vivancos, Mar Aníbal-Martínez, Lorenzo Puche-Aroca, Francisco J. Martini & Guillermina López-Bendito Teresa Guillamon-Vivancos Mar Aníbal-Martínez Lorenzo Puche Guille Lopez-Bendito nature.com/articles/s4158…