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Sophie Steculorum @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social · Aug 21

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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MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations to our spokesperson Veronica Egger for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant!!🥂🐭🎉

Universität Regensburg @uniregensburg.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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Sophie Steculorum @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 🤩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.

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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · May 21

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...

Die neue Würzburger Professorin Silke Sachse. (Foto: Nives Kramberger)

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Yuxin Zhang @yuxinzhang.bsky.social · May 1

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

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · Apr 29

Cool set of talks by early career researchers on the neural basis of behaviour! Organized by @neuroethology.org

Alt text: Poster for a seminar series organised by the International Society for Neuroethology: The Future of Neuroethology May 20th 2025 1400 UTC.

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZzMNjMB09V1uoBJlg2cGnuGUzSd6om_iFVCHkzskXwA/

Speakers:
Sercan Sayin, University of Konstanz Germany: The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts.

Andrew Matheson, Columbia University, USA: Environmental Plasticity of the Newt Olfactory System.

Emily Lessig, University of Texas at Austin, USA: The neural basis of reciprocity in a highly social cichlid.

Panel discussion after the talks on the financial landscape for science and its impact on the society.
Speakers:
Cindy Moss, ISN president, Professor at John Hopkins University
Mathias Wernet, ISN member, Professor at Freie Universitaet Berlin
Daniel Tomsic, ISN member, Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires

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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · Mar 31

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology @mpi-ce.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

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German Neuroscience Society e.V. - NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social · Mar 28

We will continue the programm after the lunch and workshop break at 2.30 pm with Symposia V (S25 - S30). #NWG2025

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MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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German Neuroscience Society e.V. - NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

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German Neuroscience Society e.V. - NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

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MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Mar 27

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MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Mar 27

Today, MODOLFOR member @ikadow.bsky.social will open Symposium 14. See you at 14:30 in lecture hall 10.

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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · Mar 26

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!!

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MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Mar 26

Check out Symposium 6 organized by MODOLFOR member Markus Rothermel - starting today at 14:30

German Neuroscience Society e.V. - NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social · Mar 26

After the first Poster Session we will continue with Symposia 1 to 6, starting at 2.30pm.

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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

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MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Nov 20

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

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Silke Sachse @silkesachse.bsky.social · Mar 7

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!

Official appointment by the president of the University of Wuerzburg.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 2

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

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 2

Laterality and interhemispheric integration in the larval Drosophila olfactory system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.02.641007v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 2

Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering the combinatorial code of cell-surface proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.640986v1

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Morgan M. Oberweiser @mmoberweiser.bsky.social · Feb 26

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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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Feb 12

A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer

Pictures of Lise Meitner Group leaders: Sofie Valk, Flore Kunst, Anna-Maria Meister, Maria Sokolova, Heidi Colleran, Nathalie Feiner und Ulrike Kraft.

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