Author: magdalena

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

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

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 […]

March 01 – 03, 2023:SPP 2205 Retreat on “Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing”, Göttingen Talk by Martin NawrotTitle: Evolutionary trend and specialization in arthropod olfaction:Circuit design and computational properties Further information here: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/670312.html

September 13 – 16, 2022:Bernstein Conference in Berlin, Germany Poster presentation by Anna-Maria JürgensenTitle: Prediction error drives olfactory learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of Drosophila larva The meeting will take place as hybrid event. Further information here:https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/

September 12 – 13, 2022:6th Meeting of the ANN in Bonn, Germany“Evolution of the arthropod brain – from development to structure” Talk by Martin NawrotTitle: Structural and functional substrate for intraglomerular signaling in the insect antennal lobeDate: Sep 12, 22, 17:30 Poster presentation by Magdalena SpringerTitle: A computational model of olfactory processing in the fly […]

September 06 – 08, 2022:Neuromorphic Algorithms Meeting in Göttingen, Germany Talk by Martin NawrotTitle: Basic cellular and circuit mechanisms of dynamic sensory processing and plasticity as building blocks for spiking algorithms. Application Deadline: June 30, 2022 The meeting will take place in-person in Volpriehausen nearby Göttingen. Further information here: https://neal2022.tetzlab.com/

August 31 – September 03, 2022:ECRO XXXII Annual Meeting Bernstein in Berlin, Germany Poster presentation by Prof. Martin NawrotTitle: Prediction error coding underlying adaptive olfactory behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.Date: Thu, 1 Sep, 15:30 – 17:00, Poster Session No. 1-59,Planck Lobby & Meitner Hall Further information on the ECRO meeting:https://coms.events/ecro2022/index.html

July 24 – 29, 2022:International Congress Neuroethology in Lisbon, Portugal Poster presentation by Cansu AricanTitle: Mushroom body output population activity allows for odor-cued behavioral prediction Poster presentation by Ibrahim TuncTitle: Neuronal noise and heterogeneity increase the dynamic range for encoding electrosensory stimuli Further information: https://neuroethology2020.com