New results on efficient and specific learning mechanisms in the fly mushroom body February 23, 2026 New paper of Manoim Wolkowitz, Tunc et al., in Current Biology (2026) Paper Dispatch in Current Biology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982226000473?via%3Dihub Full publication: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00014-X
February 26, 2026: iBehave Talk Speaker: Prof. Brian H Smith Title: Active sensing of odors by antennal movements in honey bees Date & Time: Feb 26, 2026 at 15:30 Venue: Seminar Room 2.009, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b, 50674 Cologne Host: Martin Nawrot
February 19, 2026: Invited Talk by Martin Nawrot Invited Talk within the Symposium “Digging Deep into Neuroanatomy by Theoretical Means” at theForschungszentrum Jülich Title of Talk: “Metastability in Spiking Attractor Networks: from Network Topology to Brain Function”
November 06 – 07, 2025: 3rd Cologne Neuroscience Days Talk by Magdalena Springer Date and Time: November 06, 17:00 Title: A connectome-based approach for investigating neural circuits of odor mixture processing. Find more information here:http://cns.cologne
October 07, 2025: PhD graduation party for Panos and Magdalena Panos Sakagiannis and Magdalena Springer have successfully completed their doctoral theses and defended them with success. We celebrated their achievements with a party in the botanical garden of our institute. Congratulations to both!
August 25 – 27, 2025: The Future of Bee and Fly Neuroethology, Modeling, and Robotics Conference Talk by Ibrahim Tunc:The Role of Kenyon cell – Kenyon cell interactions in compartmentalized odor processing and olfactory learning specificity
August 25, 2025: Retreat for Young Investigators from the FOR2705 Labs Talk by Ibrahim Tunc:Closing the Loop: Synergizing Models and Experiments
March 26 – 29, 2025: 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society Talks byAmina Abdelbaki: Spatiotemporal Deep Learning Pipeline for Decoding Stimulus-Driven Whole-Brain Calcium Imaging (Symposium 13, March 27 03.55 p.m.)Martin Nawrot: Models of olfactory computation in the insect brain Poster contributions fromAnna-Maria Jürgensen: Distributed reinforcement signals among Drosophila larva dopaminergic neurons guide learning in […]
The INF team within the CRC1451 has created a detailed tutorial showcasing how to easily reproduce the original figures from Rostami et al., 2024. Using the published code and data, this step-by-step guide ensures transparency and accessibility. Below, you’ll find a link to the respective data catalog entry and the dataset publication:Access the Data and NotebookAccess the Dataset Publication […]
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