September 25 – November 08, 2024: Advanced Neural Data Analysis and Neuroinformatics (ANDA-NI) School An interactive school for improving research data management and electrophysiological data analysis Lecture by Martin Nawrot on Oct 11, 20204Title: Mechanisms underlying Cortical Variability Dynamics Empirical Data Analysis and Spiking Attractor Mode More information here: https://andani.info
October 14 – 16, 2024: DrosoExpect Retreat in Cologne We enjoyed a productive retreat of our trinational (German-US-France) collaborative research group “DrosoExpect” at the Institute of Zoology.
September 29 – October 02, 2024: Bernstein Conference 2024 in Frankfurt am Main Talk by Ibrahim Tunc within the Satellite meeting Understanding Local Third Factors in Synaptic Plasticity: Mechanisms and Functional Implications Date: 29.09.2024Title: Role of local Kenyon cell interactions in Drosophila melanogaster for specificity in olfactory learning More information here: https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/
September 16 – 18, 2024: iBehave Summer School School Talk by Panagiotis SakagiannisTitle: Larvaworld: A virtual lab for behavioral modeling More information on the iBehave network here: https://ibehave.nrw
September 05 – 06, 2024: Motor Mastery Symposium Organized by early career researchers of the Collaborative Research Centre 1451 “Key mechanisms of motor control in health and disease” The Motor Mastery Symposium will feature:– 10 International Keynote Lectures from experts in the field of motor control.– Multiple Poster Sessions designed to showcase our research and foster networking opportunities.– Short Talks: the […]
August 19 – 21, 2024: BonnBrain3 Meeting Poster presenatation by Anna-Maria JürgensenTitle: Circuit motifs for sensory integration, learning, and the initiation of adaptive behavior in larval Drosophila. Poster presentation by Magdalena SpringerTitle: A model investigation of synaptic transmission tuned via the Unc13 protein. More information here: https://bonnbrain.de
July 28 – August 02, 2024, International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN) in Berlin, Germany Poster presentation by Dr. Cansu AricanTitle: Neuronal modulation after associative and non-associative learning on antennal lobe and mushroom body output level Poster presentation by Magdalena SpringerTitle: A model investigation of synaptic transmission tuned via the Unc13 protein More information here: https://www.icn2024-berlin.org
March 22 – 24, 2024, Arthropod Neuroscience Network (ANN) Spring Meeting 2024 in Cochem, Germany Talk by Ibrahim TuncTitle: Role of local Kenyon cell – Kenyon cell interactions in the γ lobe of Drosophila melanogaster for specificity in olfactory learning Poster presentation by Alice BallabioTitle: Trace conditioning in a computational circuit model of insect mushroom body […]
March 01 – 08, 2024, Interdisciplinary College (IK) Poster presentation by Amina AbdelbakiTitle: Investigating Spike Trains and Trial-to-Trial Variability in Primate Motor Cortex During Central-Out Reach Task Poster presentation by Anna MorozovaTitle: How are multimodal stimuli represented in the mushroom body output More information here: https://interdisciplinary-college.org/
January 17, 2024, 16:00: Talk Prof. Martin Nawrot at the University of Tübingen, Germany Title: Computation in spiking cortical attractor networks: action selection, reaction times and cortical variability Short abstract: We investigate computation for sensory-motor transformation in spiking cortical attractor networks and compare our results to behavioral data and single-unit recordings from the monkey motor […]
October 24 – 27, 2023: Champalimaud Research Neuro Symposium 2023 Poster presentations byCansu Arican: Multisensory representation in the mushroom body output: Insights into behavioral decision-making and sensory encodingAnna-Maria Jürgensen: Minimal circuit motifs for second-order conditioning in the insect mushroom body More information here: https://symposium.fchampalimaud.science
October 26, 2023: 2nd Cologne Neuroscience Day Poster presentations byAlice Ballabio: Investigation of trace conditioning in a computational circuit model of insect mushroom bodyFelix Schmitt: Metastability in cortical networks with sparsely interconnected excitatory and inhibitory clusters
Press release: Brian Smith is Ernst Bresslau Guest Professor of Zoology September 28, 2023 Here you find the press releases in English and German!
October 04, 2023, 17:00:Ernst Bresslau Public Lecture Talk by Prof. Brian H. SmithTitle of the Talk: Reverse engineering brains: Use of animal ‘models’ for understanding the relation between brain, behavior and cognition AbstractNeuroscientists are tasked with understanding how the brain works. To do this neuroscientists must ‘reverse engineering’ from a whole brain to understanding its […]
September 24 – 29, 2023:ESITO European Symposium for Insect Taste and Olfaction XIVin Villasimius, Italy Talk byMartin NawrotDate: Sep 26, Olfactory Coding & Circuits II, 12:00 – 12:15Title: Rapid and reliable odor processing requires the interplay of cellular and circuit mechanisms Poster presentations byCansu AricanTitle: Multisensory representation in the mushroom body output: Insights into behavioral […]
September 26 – 29, 2023:Bernstein Conference Poster presentation by Felix SchmittTitle: Metastability in cortical networks with sparsely interconnected excitatory and inhibitory clusters https://abstracts.g-node.org/conference/BC23/abstracts#/uuid/037de2e0-3e5f-4405-91d6-944475321d8e
October 04, 2023, 17:00:Ernst Bresslau Public Lecture Talk by Prof. Brian H. SmithTitle of the Talk: Reverse engineering brains: Use of animal ‘models’ for understanding the relation between brain, behavior and cognition AbstractNeuroscientists are tasked with understanding how the brain works. To do this neuroscientists must ‘reverse engineering’ from a whole brain to understanding its […]
Press release: Control of behavioural decisions is similar in insects and mammals August 31, 2023 New paper of Cansu Arican et al., (2023) published in Current Biology. Press releases: Paper Dispatch in Current Biology: Full publication:
May 30 – June 01, 2023:Mushroom Body Meeting in Göttingen, Germany May 31, Session VI, 12:00 – 12:20:Talk by Cansu AricanTitle: The mushroom body output encodes behavioral decisions during sensory-motor transformation. May 31, Session VIII, 16:00 – 16:20:Talk by Martin NawrotTitle: Reward prediction for adaptive sensory-motor transformation in a spiking agent of Drosophila larva Find the […]
May 23, 2023, 13:00 s.t.:Talk Prof. Thomas Nowotny, University of Sussexwithin the Seminars in Neuroscience series organized by the neuroscience groups of the University of Cologne and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. Title of the talk: How to train Spiking Neural Networks efficiently More information on the talk and the seminar series can be found here!
May 08, 2023: Talk Martin Nawrotwithin the iRTG Lecture Series on Motor Control Title of the Talk: Brain Machine Interfacing – extending human motor control The lecture series take place in presence (hybrid) in the Neurology lecture hall or in the small lecture hall MTI. More information on the integrated Research Training Group (iRTG) of […]
March 22 – 25, 2023:15th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (NWG) in Göttingen, Germany Poster presentation by Anna-Maria JürgensenTitle: Prediction error drives olfactory learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of Drosophila larva Poster presentation by Cansu AricanTitle: The mushroom body output encodes behavioral decision during sensory-motor transformation Poster presentation by Ibrahim TuncTitle: Data-driven […]
PROJECT INFDATA MANAGEMENT FORCOMPUTATIONAL MODELING SFB1451 Advanced Methods Course on Neural Data Analysis & Machine Learning 2023 February 27 – March 17, 2023 The expert team of the INF project offers an Advanced Methods Course on Neural Data Analysis and Machine Learning for PhD students and Postdocs of the SFB1451 Key Mechanisms of Motor Control in Health […]