Side effect of annoying autotranslations: your university speaks Yoda

Leipzig, the current home for the Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 fleet…

Room view is pretty neat indeed…

I always wanted to visit Knossos! - En route to the #Drosophila Neural Circuits & Behaviour workshop in Crete...

This is how ChatGPT imagines me - thinking hard where the missing legs of the fly went... Mug is also clearly lacking the Grass lab logo: Fail!

Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)!

Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:

We hypothesize that this kind of play is useful to train the body self, as the intentional exafference during voluntary passive locomotion is predicted by a corollary discharge of the internal model (voluntary) but not reduced by an efference copy (passive motion). (6/7)

Those who love the carousel, seek it repeatedly. What’s more, when there are two carousels moving in alternation, the flies switch between them. (3/7)

A short reminder what it is all about:
We enriched our flies’ life with a spinning platform to see how they interact with it over 2 days – turns out some love it, some hate it. Another great example of idiosyncratic behavior. (2/7)