Katrin Vogt

Cognitive primitives of the insect brain Understanding the mechanistic basis of human cognition is likely to benefit from investigating how it emerged through evolution. We propose that identifying and investigating fundamental brain functio...

Little smart critters..🪰🐝🐜
Cognitive primitives of the insect brain: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Come be our colleague! The Center for Neural Science at NYU is accepting applications at the Assistant Professor level in computational neuroscience and/or neural engineering apply.interfolio.com/182074

Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality - CAJAL […]

You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more.

✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered

🔗 janelia.news/THB26

@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

Our new preprint is out!

A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.

📣 Reminder: Applications to the Advanced Confocal Microscopy Course close by the 22 February!
🗓️ 13-11 April
📍@champalimaudf, Lisbon
✏️ Application deadline: 22 February 2026
✅ Acceptance notification: 24 February 2026
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/events/advan...

Cluster community at lunch break with poster session

CASCB members in the audience listening to Armin Bahl's talk

Genuinely delighted about this year’s CASCB Spring Retreat and energized to feel that, as a community, we are exactly where we want and need to be!
Huge thanks to all the incredible people, across academic stages, disciplines, and research-supporting roles, who made this retreat such a success!

Behavioral biases drift in individuals.

• Drift happens on many timescales
• Drift rate depends on genetics and neuromodulators
• It might be adaptive for rapidly changing environments

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

The Lise Meitner Excellence Programme is designed to attract and specifically promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.

A position with prospects! We offer excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of #science. Applications are possible between February 11th and April 15th, 2026. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #lisemeitnergroups

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

Time-Sounds-Memory-Psychophysics in Drosophila? Suewei Lin and colleagues, WTF. I couldnt be more impressed. #myhero www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/en/faculty/p...

Very thankful for this thoughtful dispatch by @shaisrael.bsky.social sky.social and Moshe Parnas about our work. Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

How a sweet treat can change memories Memories must be flexible so animals can adapt when the world changes. FMI neuroscientists found that in fruit flies, simply tasting a sugar reward again can weaken all previous associated memories. T...

Now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: neuroscientists in the lab of @felsenberg.bsky.social found that in fruit flies, re-tasting a sugar reward can weaken past memories, pointing to new ways to safely update harmful ones. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

A new system for studying neuronal remodeling and its relation to behavior in Drosophila - Communications Biology Authors show that the adult Moonwalker SEZ neuron is a developmentally-conserved larval neuron that drives backward locomotion at both larval and adult stages and undergoes ec...

Super excited to share that the “sequel” to my PhD research at the Parnas lab has been published as a featured article in Communications Biology! 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Air pollution causes social instability in ant colonies A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

Markus Knaden et al. from the Odor-Guided Behavior Group in collab. with @yukoulrich.bsky.social report in PNAS that ozone destroys colony-specific odors causing attacks within the colony – a dramatic example of how human pollution can disrupt social systems in nature.
www.ice.mpg.de/530492/PR_Ji...

Fruit fly larvae are more social than you think 🐛#UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers discovered that they change their behaviour depending on who’s around - and uncovered the mechanisms behind it. t1p.de/t76uj

Social avoidance overrides responses to other contextual stimuli, highlighting the importance of recognizing other larvae.

Social isolation enhances the aversive response, suggesting that fly larvae get used to each other during development.

Larvae sense each other via multiple sensory modalities.

The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

The Hector Foundation has honoured #UniKonstanz-based behavioural biologist Iain Couzin with the Hector Award for outstanding scientific achievements and exceptional mentorships in the field of collective behaviour. @cbehav.bsky.social Full story: t1p.de/7yq10

A neuronal population clock for interval timing in Drosophila
#Drosophila

Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila
#Drosophila

New preprint from our group (collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social) showing that discriminating odor components within a complex mixture is constrained by neural sensitivity rather than background interference - likely due to sparse representations at the front end.

Evolution of sensory systems underlies the emergence of predatory feeding behaviors in nematodes | PNAS Understanding how animal behavior evolves remains a major challenge, with few studies linking genetic changes to differences in neural function and...

How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator?
Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Junior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠

🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered

Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26

@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social

Applications will be opening soon for BAMB! 2026

The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026

www.bambschool.org

europeandrosophilasociety.org/index.php/ne...

Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our hands-on #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop featuring participant talks, tutorials & lively discussions.

✅ No registration fee
🍽️ Meals & hotel covered
✈️ Travel support available

Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26

@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits - Nature Noradrenergic circuits support and balance aggressive behavioural states in predatory nematodes, distinguish predatory from non-predatory nematode species and are associated with the evolution of comp...

Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill?
Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes.
Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.

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