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Research Unit/ FORschungsgruppe 5424, Modulation in olfaction: How recurrent circuits govern state-dependent behaviour. #olfaction #neuromodulation #DFG
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Congratulations to @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social on receiving a £3.8 million @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award, working with @esrf.fr, to chart the brain circuity behind the sense of smell in mice.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
New £3.8m project to map the mouse olfactory system
Andreas Schaefer, Principal Group Leader of the Sensory Circuits and Neurotechnology Laboratory at the Crick, has received a Wellcome Discovery Award to chart the brain circuitry behind the sense of s...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Very excited to continue our amazing collaboration with @apacureanu.bsky.social at @esrf.fr - thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and all the collaborators at @crick.ac.uk and @esrf.fr
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Thrilled our discovery of a novel sensory pathway controlling satiety in mice is featured in the General-Anzeiger @gabonn 🐭👃🍽️!

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Kölner Studie: Geruch macht satt (zumindest Mäuse) ga.de/news/wissen-...
Mäuse schnuppern an Grapefruits und haben dann keinen Hunger mehr: Wie praktisch: Geruch kann satt machen
Kölner Wissenschaftler finden einen überraschenden Auslöser für Sättigungsgefühl – nämlich das Riechen. Ein neuer Weg zum Schlankwerden? Leider funktioniert es bis jetzt nur bei Mäusen.
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August 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Congratulations to our spokesperson Veronica Egger for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant!!🥂🐭🎉
Ein großer Erfolg für die Uni Regensburg: Prof. Dr. Veronica Egger erhält einen ERC Advanced Grant (3,5 Mio €) für ihr Projekt COLUMNET zur olfaktorischen Objekterkennung. Ihre Forschung beleuchtet, wie das Gehirn aus Duftsignalen komplexe Geruchswahrnehmungen formt. -> shorturl.at/MqTJJ
June 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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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...
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
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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...
May 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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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
May 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Cool set of talks by early career researchers on the neural basis of behaviour! Organized by @neuroethology.org
April 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩
March 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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...
April 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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We will continue the programm after the lunch and workshop break at 2.30 pm with Symposia V (S25 - S30). #NWG2025
March 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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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
March 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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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
iBehave (@ibehave.bsky.social)
Empowering Behavioral neuroscience with modern computing
ibehave.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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
March 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Today, MODOLFOR member @ikadow.bsky.social will open Symposium 14. See you at 14:30 in lecture hall 10.
March 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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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!!
March 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Check out Symposium 6 organized by MODOLFOR member Markus Rothermel - starting today at 14:30
After the first Poster Session we will continue with Symposia 1 to 6, starting at 2.30pm.
March 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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
March 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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
Join us for the MODOLFOR Satellite Symposium on Modulation of Olfaction at the 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society in spring 2025 🐭🐝👃
@neurowissg.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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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!
March 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Shapley 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
March 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Laterality and interhemispheric integration in the larval Drosophila olfactory system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.02.641007v1
March 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering the combinatorial code of cell-surface proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.640986v1
March 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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....
How a salt pan ant Cataglyphis fortis navigates artificially complex environments
Summary: The desert ant Cataglyphis fortis is adapted to the rather featureless saltpans of Tunisia. However, when facing artificially complex environments, the ants exhibit navigational strategies th...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM