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Anna Schroeder

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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 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

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

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Julia Veit @juliaveit.bsky.social · 6d

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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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 11d

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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Raunak Basu @raunakbasu.bsky.social · 14d

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, ...

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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...

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Emilie Macé @mace-lab.bsky.social · 28d

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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Anna Schroeder @annaschroeder.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations Amelia!! 🎉🥂This is so well deserved!

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Amelia Douglass @amdouglass.bsky.social · Sep 4

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!

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Anna Schroeder @annaschroeder.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!!! 🥂🥳

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧵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.

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Sep 3

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 - 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...

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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD @rangarajuvidhya.bsky.social · Aug 28

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!

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Lisa Traunmüller @lisatraunmueller.bsky.social · Aug 22

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...

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...

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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · Aug 21

Important initiative 👇

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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...

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Anna Schroeder @annaschroeder.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢🚨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...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Aug 1

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.

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships:
Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

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Flor Iacaruso @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

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Baptiste Libé-Philippot @blibep.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧠 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...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher in human neurobiology (M/F)

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Laura Busse @laurabusse.bsky.social · Jul 10

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...).

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Julijana Gjorgjieva @gjorjulijana.bsky.social · Jul 25

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!

Christoph Miehl @cmiehl.bsky.social · Jul 25

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.

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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...

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Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

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Anna Schroeder @annaschroeder.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our department chair has been appointed as the new Vice President of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social! Congratulations Benedikt Grothe! 🎉🤗

LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨ In today’s meeting, the University Council elected nine vice presidents who will take office on October 1, 2025, to support incoming president Professor Matthias Tschöp. 🎉 Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

New LMU Vice Presidents elected

Starting in October, ten vice presidents will support the work of the future LMU president, Professor Matthias Tschöp.

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Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · Jul 21

Beyond the Lab Workshop - Naturalistic Approaches in Neuroscience! join us in Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-25 October sites.google.com/view/beyondt...

beyondthelabworkshop

October 20-25th, 2025 Montevideo, Uruguay

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · Jul 21

I like this take. Science is inherently failure, because the minute we succeed we shift the goal-posts and get back into that failure zone. If you only have successes you are not doing creative science.

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