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 […]
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
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 […]