@modolfor.bsky.social
Research Unit/ FORschungsgruppe 5424, Modulation in olfaction: How recurrent circuits govern state-dependent behaviour. #olfaction #neuromodulation #DFG
Congratulations to our spokesperson Veronica Egger for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant!!🥂🐭🎉
24.06.2025 10:32 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 🤩Excited to share our latest paper👃🧠! Huge thanks to the amazing first author @janice-bulk.bsky.social and all co-authors, especially @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social and @tobiasackels.bsky.social 🙌!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Die neue Würzburger Professorin Silke Sachse. (Foto: Nives Kramberger)
Wir begrüßen Professorin @silkesachse.bsky.social als neue Leiterin des Lehrstuhls für #Neurobiologie und #Genetik! Sie kommt aus Jena zu uns (@mpi-ce.bsky.social) und erforscht den Geruchssinn von #Insekten.
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...
My PhD project is out as a preprint!
We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🙌 @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social, @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk
Alt text: Poster for a seminar series organised by the International Society for Neuroethology: The Future of Neuroethology May 20th 2025 1400 UTC. Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZzMNjMB09V1uoBJlg2cGnuGUzSd6om_iFVCHkzskXwA/ Speakers: Sercan Sayin, University of Konstanz Germany: The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts. Andrew Matheson, Columbia University, USA: Environmental Plasticity of the Newt Olfactory System. Emily Lessig, University of Texas at Austin, USA: The neural basis of reciprocity in a highly social cichlid. Panel discussion after the talks on the financial landscape for science and its impact on the society. Speakers: Cindy Moss, ISN president, Professor at John Hopkins University Mathias Wernet, ISN member, Professor at Freie Universitaet Berlin Daniel Tomsic, ISN member, Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires
Cool set of talks by early career researchers on the neural basis of behaviour! Organized by @neuroethology.org
29.04.2025 15:55 — 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩
31.03.2025 09:49 — 👍 27 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 6
PhD project offer: Sensing the unseen: How diatoms detect and respond to highly dilute sex-inducing pheromones
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Georg Pohnert, FSU Jena; Dr. Markus Knaden MPI for Chemical Ecology
More information: www.ice.mpg.de/319540/Proje...
Apply now: jobs.ice.mpg.de/en/jobpostin...
We will continue the programm after the lunch and workshop break at 2.30 pm with Symposia V (S25 - S30). #NWG2025
28.03.2025 12:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow morning, March 29th at 11:30 am, check out Symposium 31 at #NWG2025 @neurowissg.bsky.social organized by MODOLFOR member Tobias Ackels @tobiasackels.bsky.social
28.03.2025 15:11 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
I am excited to speak in the next Symposium 26 at #NWG2025 @neurowissg.bsky.social about our newest results in cannibalistic behavior in fly larvae
28.03.2025 12:34 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Circuits for behavior: cross-species strategies for adaptation & plasticity. Don´t miss our ibehave.bsky.social -sponsored symposium on the state-dependent dynamics shaping plans, actions and predictions across time scales in flies, mice & mole rats by ggatto.bsky.social jangrundemann.bsky.social
27.03.2025 13:09 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In Symposium 12 (Hall 103) ten young scientists will get the chance to give a talk and compete for Breaking News Awards in our first Breaking News symposium.
The first place will get 500€ (2nd 300€, 3rd 200€). #NWG2025
#NWG2025
27.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today, MODOLFOR member @ikadow.bsky.social will open Symposium 14. See you at 14:30 in lecture hall 10.
27.03.2025 08:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Honored to present my work on naked mole rats from @garyrlewin.bsky.social at the @modolfor.bsky.social symposium (@silkesachse.bsky.social) during the Göttingen Neuroscience Meeting #NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social —and finally getting the famous and amazing Drosophila from @katrinvogt.bsky.social!!
26.03.2025 15:23 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Check out Symposium 6 organized by MODOLFOR member Markus Rothermel - starting today at 14:30
26.03.2025 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On the way to Göttingen!
Tomorrow, check out the poster from my PhD student Hari Narayanan @hari-flies.bsky.social
We find that navigating odors is modulated by hunger and social context in fly larvae @modolfor.bsky.social
Our Symposium takes place tomorrow at the Sternwarte in Göttingen. We are looking forward to exciting talks from @nawrot.bsky.social, @xenofrog.bsky.social, Lisa Scheunemann, Andre Fiala and Celine Riera. What a great start of the #NWG meeting @neurowissg.bsky.social
25.03.2025 07:44 — 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Official appointment by the president of the University of Wuerzburg.
It‘s finally official! I am thrilled to start at the Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics at the @uni-wuerzburg.de on April 1st! I am very grateful to all my mentors, group members, collaborators and friends without whom I could not have achieved this. Please come & visit beautiful Wuerzburg soon!
07.03.2025 14:33 — 👍 78 🔁 8 💬 18 📌 0Shapley Fields Reveal Chemotopic Organization in the Mouse Olfactory Bulb Across Diverse Chemical Feature Sets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.640432v1
02.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Laterality and interhemispheric integration in the larval Drosophila olfactory system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.02.641007v1
02.03.2025 18:16 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering the combinatorial code of cell-surface proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.640986v1
02.03.2025 18:15 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
I’m really pleased to see this study out recently in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, composed partly of an experiment I helped to develop and run in the field for my master’s thesis. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Pictures of Lise Meitner Group leaders: Sofie Valk, Flore Kunst, Anna-Maria Meister, Maria Sokolova, Heidi Colleran, Nathalie Feiner und Ulrike Kraft.
A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer
12.02.2025 14:46 — 👍 72 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 6Today, we honor the incredible achievements of women in science. Meet female researchers from our institute: @silkesachse.bsky.social, Sonja Bisch-Knaden, Priya Reddy, Karin Groten, and @shabmohammadi.bsky.social. Let’s continue championing diversity & equality in research!
#WomenInScience
30.01.2025 09:52 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Synergistic olfactory nerve input and cholinergic neuromodulation can activate ERK in rat olfactory bulb vasopressin cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.28.635198v1
28.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share our new preprint: How does the fly mushroom body support odour categorisation and discrimination? 🧠✨ Dive into Ivy Chan's @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social findings on how neural circuits enable complex olfactory processing in flies. Check it out here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia.
Hotel Cormoran in Villasimius, Sardinia.
Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅
We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!
Winner of Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award: Tobias Ackels - Copyright Universität Bonn
Mammals smell faster than they breathe: Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award 2025 goes to Tobias Ackels @goetheuni.bsky.social @paulstiftung...
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