Axon adaptation to tension, out today Current Biology. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jlO93QW8S6G… Kudos to Sara! Thanks MAroso and Paulo de Castro Aguiar for the AxonStretcher, TSilva and pedro brites for membranes, J&CVieira for transcriptomics, and the younger crew i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde.

Preprint alert! 🚨 Our latest study from the Brain&Sound lab (Tania Barkat) on Curriculum Learning(CL) is now live. We investigated how sequential acquisition of increasingly complex tasks (Easy → Difficult) enhances learning efficiency. 🐁 🧠 1/2

Félicitations à Nikolas KARALIS, chargé de recherche Inserm et chef d’équipe à Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, sélectionné pour bénéficier d'un financement "starting grant" par European Research Council (ERC) pendant cinq ans pour le projet « StateNeuromod ». #ERCStG institutducerveau-icm.org/fr/actualite/n…

The Ruth Chiquet Prize is awarded to Tengjun Liu, Julia Gygax & Julian Rossbroich for using spiking neural networks to decode brain signals. The committee was impressed by the elegance of their method and its translational potential for brain-machine interfaces.

Are #Drosophila accessory medulla neurons oscillating coherently? Check out our preprint Neuronal Synchronization in Drosophila, featuring DUAL patch clamp recordings from the great Florencia Fernández Chiappe and the impeccable theory by oscillation experts Marcos Wappner y Luis Morelli (1/7)

How individual insulin-producing cells in the fruit fly brain work together to produce a concerted response to metabolic demands and internal state changes. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Only about a month left to apply to our PhD and MD-PhD programs. Hurry up! Apply at: fmi.ch/education-care…

We're hiring! Please RT! Exciting opportunities for #PhD students, #postdocs, and #research assistants to join us in exploring how the brain prioritises actions in conflict. #Neuroscience #Drosophila Interested? Get in touch! rezavallab.org

The results of this work have changed my view of olfactory cortex function, and of autoassociative memory in general. Great work by Hu Bo, Nesibe Temiz, et al in a wonderful collaboration with Chi-Ning Chou and SueYeon Chung. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New from Shiko Parnas' lab: Classical & operant learning in *Drosophila* rely on distinct neuronal pathways, challenging current paradigms! Moshe Parnas Unstoppable science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congratulations to the latest recipients of early-career research fellowships and grants at the FMI. These highly competitive awards are internationally recognized for fostering groundbreaking and interdisciplinary research. fmi.ch/news-events/ar…

Ever wonder how the brain manages to be BOTH adaptable to environments AND stable to perturbations? ...and how on earth this is achieved during development when plasticity is high? Check out my & 🧠🌹 ɌɨȼħȺɍđ Ɍøsȼħ 🌹🧠 preprint and see if we have any idea: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

So happy that my first day FMI science coincided with the publication of this paper. nature.com/articles/s4155… . Thanks to Yale Daily News and Yale Cancer Center for highlighting : news.yale.edu/2025/01/06/tra….

A perfect start in the new year! 🌱 Regenerating tissues are just an amazing spatio temporal controlled process! Our new manuscript explores how cell heterogeneity and bistability orchestrate intestinal regeneration 🧵biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Meet Anupama Hemalatha (Anupama Hemalatha), FMI’s newest group leader! Her research uses live imaging to explore how metabolic pathways regulate cell behavior. She shares her passion for science, what drew her to FMI, and why mentorship matters 👇fmi.ch/news-events/ar…

Ever wondered if humans experience the same tricky vision-movement mismatches seen in mice? The Georg Keller group is finding out! This week, they've been running EEG & VR experiments in the FMI lobby to explore how our brains handle these conflicts.

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva: Multimodal social context modulates behavior in larval Drosophila doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

What happens when our senses defy expectations—like hearing a delayed step? A study by Magdalena Solyga and Georg Keller revealed how the brain handles sensory surprises, with insights that could aid psychiatric diagnosis and tracking. fmi.ch/news-events/ar…

I've spent much of my PhD thinking about E/I balance, and our latest preprint represents the culmination of that journey. Huge thanks to Friedemann Zenke for guiding me. Looking forward to your thoughts & comments.

Check out our recent work : rdcu.be/eoeT0