Anna Schroeder
@annaschroeder.bsky.social
Professor, Neuroscientist, Group Leader @lmumuenchen.bsky.social interested in how your brain 🧠 converts feelings into actions. 🇺🇸 in 🇩🇪. @erc.europa.eu Awardee. annaschroederlab.com
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Anna Schroeder
@annaschroeder.bsky.social
· Dec 16
Schroeder Lab
The Schroeder Lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich explores how neural circuits transform internal drives such as hunger, emotion, and curiosity into action.
www.annaschroederlab.com
Schroeder Lab website is now live! 🔥 Check it out 🤩 to learn about who we are, what we do to study how the brain gives rise to internal states that drive adaptive behavior 🧠, and how you can join the team 👇 🧪 Spread the word! www.annaschroederlab.com
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@in-code.bsky.social
Visit our Mini-Symposium 36 ‚Experience-driven dynamics in cortical inhibition for learning and behavior‘ - Room 6CF, November 19, 2025, 9:30 am at SFN, San Diego.
Our speakers: Lisa Topolnik, Silvia da Silva, Linlin Fan, Attila Losonczy, Amar Sahay, Marlene Bartos.
Visit our Mini-Symposium 36 ‚Experience-driven dynamics in cortical inhibition for learning and behavior‘ - Room 6CF, November 19, 2025, 9:30 am at SFN, San Diego.
Our speakers: Lisa Topolnik, Silvia da Silva, Linlin Fan, Attila Losonczy, Amar Sahay, Marlene Bartos.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
@in-code.bsky.social
Visit our Mini-Symposium 36 ‚Experience-driven dynamics in cortical inhibition for learning and behavior‘ - Room 6CF, November 19, 2025, 9:30 am at SFN, San Diego.
Our speakers: Lisa Topolnik, Silvia da Silva, Linlin Fan, Attila Losonczy, Amar Sahay, Marlene Bartos.
Visit our Mini-Symposium 36 ‚Experience-driven dynamics in cortical inhibition for learning and behavior‘ - Room 6CF, November 19, 2025, 9:30 am at SFN, San Diego.
Our speakers: Lisa Topolnik, Silvia da Silva, Linlin Fan, Attila Losonczy, Amar Sahay, Marlene Bartos.
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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...
👉 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...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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...
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior?
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior?
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Out today in Nature: We uncover a neural mechanism for the integration of two internal states - hunger and estrous state - and how this integration shapes pup-directed behaviors in mice.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates infant-directed aggression - Nature
Combined behavioural, circuit-level and cellular approaches are used to demonstrate how hypothalamic neurons integrate hunger and oestrous state to drive a switch in how female mice interact with pups...
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Out today in Nature: We uncover a neural mechanism for the integration of two internal states - hunger and estrous state - and how this integration shapes pup-directed behaviors in mice.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 🚨 Technical Assistant Opportunity in Neuroscience 📢 🚨
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior!
⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior!
⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
📢 🚨 Technical Assistant Opportunity in Neuroscience 📢 🚨
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior!
⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior!
⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025
Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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Happy to share that I just started a W2 professorship at the University of Bremen! Yay tenure! While I already start teaching now, the lab will stay in Freiburg until May while we get things ready. Super excited about this new chapter! We’re also hiring! Please get in touch if you’re interested!
October 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Happy to share that I just started a W2 professorship at the University of Bremen! Yay tenure! While I already start teaching now, the lab will stay in Freiburg until May while we get things ready. Super excited about this new chapter! We’re also hiring! Please get in touch if you’re interested!
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If you’re in #Munich 🥨 and curious about decision-making, perception, and cognition through a translational lens, join us for a seminar I’m hosting on Oct 30 with three fantastic speakers: @jkesby.bsky.social (visiting from 🇦🇺), @miguelbengala.bsky.social, and @jacob-lab.bsky.social 🧠💡
September 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you’re in #Munich 🥨 and curious about decision-making, perception, and cognition through a translational lens, join us for a seminar I’m hosting on Oct 30 with three fantastic speakers: @jkesby.bsky.social (visiting from 🇦🇺), @miguelbengala.bsky.social, and @jacob-lab.bsky.social 🧠💡
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Ever wonder if there are spatial maps in the brain outside the hippocampal-entorhinal regions? In this preprint, we describe a novel spatial map in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) that preserves the topological arrangements and distance between locations. However, ...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
The orbitofrontal cortex forms a context-generalized spatial schema that preserves topology and distance
Flexible and efficient navigation requires the brain to construct maps that are both topological, preserving the relationships between locations, and schematic, enabling generalization across environm...
www.biorxiv.org
September 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Ever wonder if there are spatial maps in the brain outside the hippocampal-entorhinal regions? In this preprint, we describe a novel spatial map in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) that preserves the topological arrangements and distance between locations. However, ...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨
We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨
We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I'm over the moon and incredibly grateful to receive an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant to support our work on the control of behavior and bodily physiology by the hypothalamus @istaresearch.bsky.social. This means we are hiring, so please get in touch if interested!
Three million Euro in EU funding for Assistant Professors Amelia Douglass and Ylva Götberg
Two Assistant Professors at ISTA have won @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants of 1.5 million Euro each to pursue their work in astrophysics and neuroscience.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4g5fEWq
Two Assistant Professors at ISTA have won @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants of 1.5 million Euro each to pursue their work in astrophysics and neuroscience.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4g5fEWq
September 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I'm over the moon and incredibly grateful to receive an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant to support our work on the control of behavior and bodily physiology by the hypothalamus @istaresearch.bsky.social. This means we are hiring, so please get in touch if interested!
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🧵How to write and manage your first research budgets
The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.
The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🧵How to write and manage your first research budgets
The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.
The point of funding is to convert it into quality research. A well-spent research budget should fund the idea it was raised on, plus revision experiments, plus preliminary data for the next grant. So you need to spend, while avoiding waste.
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The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Anna Schroeder
New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social
Species-specific Rates of Fatty Acid Metabolism Set the Scale of Temporal Patterning of Corticogenesis through Protein Acetylation Dynamics
Developmental processes display temporal differences across species, leading to divergence in organ size and composition. In the cerebral cortex, neurons of diverse identities are generated sequential...
www.biorxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social
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New preprint alert! 🚀
We show that mitochondria dynamically remodel near synapses during brain plasticity for learning 🧠🧪
Led by Monil Shah, MPFI IMPRS PhD student, (@mpfneuro.bsky.social) using advanced microscopy & new algorithms, revealing stunning neuronal beauty! 🔬
Thanks to the whole team!
We show that mitochondria dynamically remodel near synapses during brain plasticity for learning 🧠🧪
Led by Monil Shah, MPFI IMPRS PhD student, (@mpfneuro.bsky.social) using advanced microscopy & new algorithms, revealing stunning neuronal beauty! 🔬
Thanks to the whole team!
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
New preprint alert! 🚀
We show that mitochondria dynamically remodel near synapses during brain plasticity for learning 🧠🧪
Led by Monil Shah, MPFI IMPRS PhD student, (@mpfneuro.bsky.social) using advanced microscopy & new algorithms, revealing stunning neuronal beauty! 🔬
Thanks to the whole team!
We show that mitochondria dynamically remodel near synapses during brain plasticity for learning 🧠🧪
Led by Monil Shah, MPFI IMPRS PhD student, (@mpfneuro.bsky.social) using advanced microscopy & new algorithms, revealing stunning neuronal beauty! 🔬
Thanks to the whole team!
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Extremely excited to share the outcome of a fantastic collaboration with @erinduffyphd.bsky.social revealing how experiences reshape hippocamapl chromatin and gene expression.
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Novel environment exposure drives temporally defined and region-specific chromatin accessibility and gene expression changes in the hippocampus - Nature Communications
Hippocampal neurons adapt to experience through changes in gene expression and chromatin accessibility. Here, authors show that novel environment exposure induces region- and cell-type specific transc...
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Extremely excited to share the outcome of a fantastic collaboration with @erinduffyphd.bsky.social revealing how experiences reshape hippocamapl chromatin and gene expression.
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Important initiative 👇
August 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Important initiative 👇
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Happy to announce our new paper in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eBpGY
We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep
Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori!
@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social
We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep
Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori!
@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social
Corticotropin-releasing hormone modulates NREM sleep consolidation through the thalamic reticular nucleus
Nature Communications - Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), known for activating the HPA axis during stress, also acts centrally in the brain. Here, the authors show that CRH modulates thalamic...
rdcu.be
August 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Happy to announce our new paper in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eBpGY
We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep
Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori!
@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social
We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep
Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori!
@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social
📢🚨Teamassistenz gesucht! Unterstützen Sie die Abteilung Neurobiologie 🧠 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social – bitte weitersagen.
📢🚨 We’re hiring an administrative assistant in the Department of Neurobiology! Spread the word.
⏳Deadline: 15. September 2025
Learn more & apply: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...
📢🚨 We’re hiring an administrative assistant in the Department of Neurobiology! Spread the word.
⏳Deadline: 15. September 2025
Learn more & apply: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...
August 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
📢🚨Teamassistenz gesucht! Unterstützen Sie die Abteilung Neurobiologie 🧠 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social – bitte weitersagen.
📢🚨 We’re hiring an administrative assistant in the Department of Neurobiology! Spread the word.
⏳Deadline: 15. September 2025
Learn more & apply: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...
📢🚨 We’re hiring an administrative assistant in the Department of Neurobiology! Spread the word.
⏳Deadline: 15. September 2025
Learn more & apply: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/2...
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Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
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1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Anna Schroeder
How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher in human neurobiology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Seeing the world through the lens of oscillations - we are delighted to share our new paper where we demonstrate that anatomically resolved oscillatory bursts reveal dynamic motifs of thalamocortical activity during naturalistic stimulus viewing (doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...).
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Seeing the world through the lens of oscillations - we are delighted to share our new paper where we demonstrate that anatomically resolved oscillatory bursts reveal dynamic motifs of thalamocortical activity during naturalistic stimulus viewing (doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...).
Reposted by Anna Schroeder
Very happy to share this preprint from the lab led by @cmiehl.bsky.social, Sebastian and Maurycy on how to flexibly learn with nonlinear dendrites and inhibitory context-dependent gating, putting biological detail in ANNs. Check out Christoph's post below for a preview or the paper for more details!
Excited to share our new preprint in which we propose a biologically plausible mechanistic solution to the problem of how the brain can flexibly learn and store new representations without forgetting previously learned information.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Detailed 🧵 below 👇 1/12
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Detailed 🧵 below 👇 1/12
Assembly-based computations through contextual dendritic gating of plasticity
Neuronal assemblies — groups of strongly connected neurons — are considered the basic building blocks of perception and memory in the brain by encoding representations of specific concepts. Despite re...
www.biorxiv.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Very happy to share this preprint from the lab led by @cmiehl.bsky.social, Sebastian and Maurycy on how to flexibly learn with nonlinear dendrites and inhibitory context-dependent gating, putting biological detail in ANNs. Check out Christoph's post below for a preview or the paper for more details!
Reposted by Anna Schroeder
Finally it's out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @felixbaier.bsky.social & I, with Hopi Hoekstra and @farrowlab.bsky.social, addressed this by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in Peromyscus mice.
The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus mice - Nature
Visual threat triggers contrasting freeze and escape defensive responses in two species of deer mice as a result of different activation thresholds downstream of the superior colliculus in the do...
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Finally it's out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @felixbaier.bsky.social & I, with Hopi Hoekstra and @farrowlab.bsky.social, addressed this by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in Peromyscus mice.