Graziana Gatto
@ggatto.bsky.social
Prof. of Neurobiology of Motor Control at University Hospital of Cologne, Sensorimotor Adaptation Lab
www.gattolab.com
Investigating spinal cord circuits, the rest of the CNS is just too overrated.
www.gattolab.com
Investigating spinal cord circuits, the rest of the CNS is just too overrated.
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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...
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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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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
There's one week left to sign up - registration closes Nov. 1st. You don't want to miss this!
#StoriesOfWiN #SfN #WomenInNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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
There's one week left to sign up - registration closes Nov. 1st. You don't want to miss this!
#StoriesOfWiN #SfN #WomenInNeuroscience
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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🧵
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🧵
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🧠🌟🐭 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🧵
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...
www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...
Motor Health: Transatlantic Cooperation Strategies and Tech Transfer in Sensorimotor Neuroscience | DWIH New York
www.dwih-newyork.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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...
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
Research Lab | Gatto Lab | Germany
Gatto Lab researches sensorimotor adaption mechanisms and spinal cord circuits
gattolab.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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.
September 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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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August 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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...
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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
August 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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
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!
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/
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/
Registration and Call for Abstracts – Motor Control: Spinal Circuits and Beyond
motor-circuits.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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!
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...
www.cell.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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...
Great perspective on speed limit of human information processing
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...
@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...
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June 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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!
June 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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!
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📢 🤩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...
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.
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
📢 🤩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...
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!
May 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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!
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.
📢 Applications are now open for our cross-disciplinary conference on nerve cord circuits.
🧠 Join experts to probe the organization & function of cord circuits across species.
🏨 Hotel, meals & registration covered.
🗓️ Apply by May 27 @ janelia.news/CRD25
@hhmi.org
@salilbidaye.bsky.social
🧠 Join experts to probe the organization & function of cord circuits across species.
🏨 Hotel, meals & registration covered.
🗓️ Apply by May 27 @ janelia.news/CRD25
@hhmi.org
@salilbidaye.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Last week to register to this amazing conference!!! Cross species cord meeting, you can't miss it!
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🔊 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
🧠 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
May 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🔊 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
🧠 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
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📢 #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
📅 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
May 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
📢 #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
📅 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
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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.
May 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
April 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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, ...
www.pnas.org
April 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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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.
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
April 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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.
Reposted by Graziana Gatto
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
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.
www.storiesofwin.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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
studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.
Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience
Reposted by Graziana Gatto
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
#jNWG for organizing our symposium: "Wired for Motion: Perspectives on motor control" with Irene Pallucchi @sirinlieb.bsky.social @corinnagebehart.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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
#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!
March 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NWG2025 is over - Driving back with Mr. President in the Unikoeln van!