If you would like to support my journey, whether through a donation or simply by sharing my GoFundMe page, it would mean more than words can say. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Constanze ❤️ gofund.me/6c3dbadf2

Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam, organized by Banas Araujo

It’s incredibly hard to watch someone you love fight the batt… Banas Araujo braucht deine Unterstützung für Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam

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Unfortunately this is true, BNI is shutting down very suddenly and soon. We’re still sorting through the fallout, but many incredibly talented postdocs and technicians are taking a huge hit to their careers because of this. If you know of openings, even short term, I’d be happy to circulate them.

Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help

Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Karolinska Institutet HHMI #Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026

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! bonnbrain.de

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!

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...

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...

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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! #StoriesOfWiN #SfN #WomenInNeuroscience

🧠🌟🐭 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🧵

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Evolutionary expansion of the corticospinal system is linked to dexterity in Peromyscus mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682851v1

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...

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.

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...

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...

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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

Claire Wyart@clairewyart.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hey #motorcontrol researchers! @jul-bouvier.bsky.social, LeMouel & I organize *Searching for principles in Motor Control* Paris Sept 23-24, 25 @sorbonne-universite.fr @institutducerveau.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social: Submit Abstract for Posters by Aug 31! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

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!

Simon A. Sharples, PhD 🇨🇦@neurosharps.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's shaping up to be a fantastic summer for motor control meetings. Registration for the second Motor Circuits Meeting hosted in St Andrews June 17-20 has just opened. Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at the meeting!! motor-circuits.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/registration/

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 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...

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Great perspective on speed limit of human information processing

Britton Sauerbrei@brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · last yr.

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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!

📢 🤩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...

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.

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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!

Salil Bidaye@salilbidaye.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey spinal/ventral nerve cord folks. we’re organizing this cross species “cords” meeting @hhmijanelia.bsky.social . Hurry up and upload your abstracts. As a trainee these were my favorite meetings (small and focused) where I got the most useful feedback. DM in case of any Qs.

🔊 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 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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, ...

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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.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Ethologically relevant behavioural assay for investigating reach and grasp kinematics during whole-body motor control in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647225v1

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... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

Dr. Graziana Gatto — Stories of WiN

studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.

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Thanks to Jonas Fisch and Lena Lion from the #jNWG for organizing our symposium: "Wired for Motion: Perspectives on motor control" with Irene Pallucchi @sirinlieb.bsky.social @corinnagebehart.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social

NWG2025 is over - Driving back with Mr. President in the Unikoeln van!