Graziana Gatto

Organizers: Mercè Masana, Ramón Reig, Roberto Leiras, Julien Bouvier @jul-bouvier.bsky.social, Lora Sweeney, Ilary Allodi, Maarten Zwart and myself.

3rd pre-FENS Motor Symposium "The Dynamics of Motor Control: Circuit Interactions in Health and Disease" on July 5th 2026 at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. Registration and abstract submission are open NOW until March 1st motor-control-satellite-2026.umh.es

🚨 Last chance to apply for participation for BonnBrain 2026! 🚨

We have very few slots left (attending with or without presentation) and will select the last participants early next week.

Apply before December 15th to be considered!

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Flyer for the BonnBrain conference: Keynote lectures: Cori Bargmann, Edvard Moser, Maude Baldwin, Rosa Paolicelli, Zachary Knight Invited speakers: Inna Slutsky, Abhilasha Joshih, Dmitriy Aronov, Ruben Portugues, Laura Busse, Kishore Kuchibhotla, Long-Jun Wu, Rune Enger, Ania Majewska, Sarah Melzer, Carolina Rezaval, Josh Dudman Specials: Selected talks, young investigator symposium, posters, career session with Leonie Welberg from Nature Neuroscience & more

Join us for BonnBrain 2026!

The official deadline for abstract submission is December 15th, but we only have a few slots left and might be sold out before the deadline.

Apply quickly 👉 bonnbrain.de to be considered by our Scientific Committee!

Heterogeneous plasticity of amygdala interneurons in associative learning and extinction - Nature Communications In this study, the authors uncover how diverse inhibitory interneurons in the amygdala flexibly contribute to fear and safety learning, revealing a key role for inhibition in emotional memory and adap...

Out now: Favila, Capece Marsico et al. 2025, Nature Communications: Using longitudinal deep-brain imaging, we report that amygdala interneurons exhibit complex and heterogeneous plasticity during associative learning, at both the single-cell and population level.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to announce the official lineup for our in-person event! 🎉

There's one week left to sign up - registration closes Nov. 1st. You don't want to miss this!

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🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Want to know more about how do we collaborate across universities and countries to advance sensorimotor research and global health? Register (link below) and join us on October 16th in New York. Event sponsored by DWIH and University of Cologne, held at NYULH!

www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...

Yes. And the printing press i built since I can't even log in to print.

My uk-koeln email has been accidentally deactivated by HR, so I lost access to emails, calendars and all linked accounts. So if I fail to reply, show up in meetings or forget deadlines please excuse me. As there is no timeline on when this will be fixed, the updated contact email is on gattolab.com

To keep up with technology in German Academia, I now built my own printing press. Soon you will be receiving my self-printed notes, job applications and grants rather than email replies and online forms.

AutoGaitA: A versatile quantitative framework for kinematic analyses across species, perturbations and behaviours Individual behaviours require the nervous system to execute specialised motor programs, each characterised by unique patterns of coordinated movements across body parts. Deep learning approaches for b...

New lab preprint: Leveraging the updated AutoGaitA toolbox, we revealed distinct species-specific mechanisms to generate propulsion during walking and the conserved pattern of age-related propulsive decline from flies to humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor Folks: a nice opportunity to present your work & get feedback! BTW registration to the Conference "Searching Principles in Motor Control" on Sept 23-24, 25 is free but mandatory, please sign up and present your work to the French community ! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

Also additional bonus points 1) I get to meet old friends, discuss science with them and do some mild partying; 2) meet new amazing trainees that in 10 years will be the future of motor control; 3) get to hike across Scotland afterwards to let all the science excitement sink kn

I would like to thank again this year organizers and the ones started this in 2023. It's my favorite meeting because it's inclusive and diverse, and it brings the young motor community together in a wonderful 3 days of science, mentoring, and fun!

The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation Yao et al. developed a neuromechanical model based on experimental perturbations, aligning theory-predicted with genetically labeled cell types. This work highlights the importance of inhibitory inter...

Paper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

The precarious life of modern scientists

Book not papers ?

Great perspective on speed limit of human information processing

After the advance of getting a fax machine, today we finally got carbon copy paper to order poster printing. University Hospital of Cologne, German leader in technology!

A food-sensitive olfactory circuit drives anticipatory satiety - Nature Metabolism The authors describe a sensory circuit involving the medial septum (MS), where MS glutamatergic neurons integrate food odours to prime satiety and regulate nutrient intake.

📢 🤩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...

I think I should celebrate my biggest achievement of the year: I finally own a fax machine. After getting a stamp, I am a step closer to true power in German academia!

Last week to register to this amazing conference!!! Cross species cord meeting, you can't miss it!

🔊 Join us for the next #iBehave Lecture with Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber (Biozentrum Basel & FMI) @biozentrum.unibas.ch

🧠 Generating movements with brainstem circuits
Host: @ggatto.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
📍 Biocenter-Room 0.024
📧 Zoom: ibehave@uni-bonn.de
#seminar

📢 #iBehave lecture by Prof. Bence Ölveczky @harvard.edu "Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution"

📅 May 9, 2025 | 15:15
Host: Tobias Rose @unibonn.bsky.social @UniklinikBonn
@ggatto.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social

📧 Zoom: ibehave@uni-bonn.de

Lab news: Excited to join @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social as part of the Lise Meitner Excellence program 🚀 A new era for the (now doubled in size) lab. We keep digging into the postpartum brain and unfolding plasticity layers, you'll hear from us soon.

GattoLab has a new mascotte HugoTheCat

Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI | PNAS Various strategies targeting spinal locomotor circuitry have been associated with functional improvements after spinal cord injury (SCI). However, ...

Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, @liamebrowne.bsky.social and Rob Brownstone.

Dr. Graziana Gatto — Stories of WiN studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Graziana Gatto (@ggatto.bsky.social)
studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.

Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

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