A few snapshots from the recent NAD PhD fellow course on data acquisition and analysis 💻 🔬 Throughout the pre-PhD year, engaged neuroscientists host courses for the NAD PhD fellows on diverse subjects within the neuroscience field 🧠 Thank you to all researchers involved!

🎉 Our work on macrophages in muscle spindles (nature) is featured today in Nature Rev Neurosci ! 🧠💪 An unexpected role for macrophages in motor control Thanks Sian for the highlight and the dream team digiovannilab and @LabPerrier

New version of our preprint available: "Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion" Enjoy! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Walking is an essential part of life- yet we do not know how the nervous system generates the underlying neural programs. Please find our sneak-peek preprint on neural generation of locomotion in the mouse: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Pan-neuronal 1-spot tracks in lumbar cord

This week, the 16 newly recruited 2025 NAD PhD fellows gathered for an opening retreat in Odense. The programme featured a workshop on presentation skills as well as a tour of the University of Southern Denmark's great new facilities, with 10 research groups providing lab tours🔬

Neuroscience Academy Denmark receives grant of DKK 222 million to elevate Danish neuroscience research 🧠With the new grant from Lundbeckfonden, NAD can advance new and ongoing initiatives. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3Wy49y8

Check out this fantastic symposium on structural biology held in beautiful Copenhagen.

Join a collaborative and interdisciplinary neuroscience PhD programme 🧠 Meet Neuroscience Academy Denmark fellow Carolyn Goddard and learn why you should apply for a fully funded NAD PhD fellowship. Applications open May 1 - read more 👉 neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/phd-programme/

Last week, 38 PhD students from all over Denmark participated in the NAD PhD course in Advanced Neuroscience: Molecular, cellular and synaptic properties of brain function. Thank you to all participants and teachers!

A shout out to Kristine Salomon, who now can call herself Dr Salomon after a brilliant PhD defense. Having two papers in nature, one in pnas, one in Nature Communications and two others, must be a pass. So well deserved. Thanks to Profs Ryan, Drew and Strømgaard for assessment.

Too busy to read our preprint? Here's an AI-generated podcast of our recent new theory of the neural mechanism of locomotion in mammals: on.soundcloud.com/FQ56dadQAaTZPD…

Neuroscience Academy Denmark (NAD) offers 16 fully funded 4-year PhD fellowships to national and international candidates pursuing a career in neuroscience research 🧠 Application deadline: August 11, 4:00 PM (CEST) ⏰ Read more and apply 👉 bit.ly/nad-phd-2025

Congratulations to the LF Fellows 2025! We are proud to announce that seven outstanding scientists have been awarded the LF #Fellowship. Each receiving a grant of DKK 10 million to immerse themselves in their scientific projects over the next five years: ow.ly/LKRh50VMYAP

The brain continuously generates metabolic water by glucose oxidation via mitochondrial activity in neurons This water contributes to brain fluid homeostasis, supporting nutrient transport and waste clearance. fluidsbarrierscns.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Our paper on “Pedunculopontine-stimulation 🧠 obstructs hippocampal theta rhythm and halts movement 🚶‍♀️” is finally published!! Congrats to all the coauthors and our amazing supervisor Rune W. Berg nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to present our study in Nature Neuroscience: a deep brain pathway that triggers safety-driven movement—overriding needs like finding food or social contacts A look at how the brain weighs deep instincts. Congrats to all and first author Natalie Krauth. shorturl.at/toYFN

Supervision and research collaborations 🤝 The deadline is drawing nearer for the 2025 NAD fellows to select their PhD lab and main supervisor. To prepare them for the big decision, NAD hosted a session on how to build and align expectations within a supervision team 🎓

Looking for a Post doc position in Structural Biology? We are hiring! employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=… The task is to continue our endeavor in solving cryo-EM structures of the human dopamine transporter, see nature.com/articles/s4158… . Thanks to Novo Nordisk Foundation for generous funding.

✨Excited to share our latest publication on Bioactive diamond 💎 scaffolds support neuronal survival and axonal growth after CNS injury. Huge thanks to Rune W. Berg and congrats to the first author Jakob and rest of the team! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How does the brain know when it's time to turn back – even when food and romance are within reach? According to Professor Ole Kiehn, this mechanism could one day help people living with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. This research was published in the scientific