Oliver Barnstedt
@obarnstedt.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen. Group leader researching the neuronal circuitry underlying memory and action. Alumnus Jacobs University, Oxford, DZNE, LIN, OvGU. http://barnstedtlab.com
ORCID: 0000-0001-7924-6043
ORCID: 0000-0001-7924-6043
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A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Getting the most of out a scientific conference
A slightly unconventional guide to your first time
scienceforeveryone.science
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Reposted by Oliver Barnstedt
Reposted by Oliver Barnstedt
🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior?
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🧠 How do emotion and memory shape behavior?
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join live webinar with Dr. Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social l & Dr. Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social(European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)
🗓️ November 13th | 14:00 CET
👉 Clickto register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Another big piece of work from our lab is out on bioRxiv. Learn about the role of PSD-95 for hunting behavior in mice here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PSD-95 drives binocular vision maturation critical for predation
Postsynaptic density protein 95 (PSD-95) is a signalling scaffold within the postsynaptic density of excitatory synapses which drives silent synapse maturation during critical periods (CP). Binoculari...
www.biorxiv.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Another big piece of work from our lab is out on bioRxiv. Learn about the role of PSD-95 for hunting behavior in mice here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
One more week left to apply for this 4-year full-time TECHNICAL ASSISTANT position at the EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE GÖTTINGEN!
Our lab at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen is looking for a highly skilled and motivated TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. Are you proficient in histological and wet lab techniques and lab management? Then come apply for our position (4 years contract)! umg.recruiting-portal.com/r/z004xflh7r...
European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI) -- Technical Assistant (f/m/d)
Technical Assistant (f/m/d)
umg.recruiting-portal.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
One more week left to apply for this 4-year full-time TECHNICAL ASSISTANT position at the EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE GÖTTINGEN!
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Congrats to lead authors @alexattinger.bsky.social and Tony Drinnenberg and all our amazing collaborators! Check out the thread below for new work from the lab on plasticity, cortex and spatial representations for navigation!
How does the brain balance learning new things without overwriting what it already knows? Our new paper tackles this long-standing stability–plasticity dilemma during active navigation. With Tony Drinnenberg from the Deisseroth Lab (@deisseroth.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Environmental Novelty Modulates Rapid Cortical Plasticity During Navigation
In novel environments, animals quickly learn to navigate, and position-correlated spatial representations rapidly emerge in both the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) and primary visual cortex (V1). However,...
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Congrats to lead authors @alexattinger.bsky.social and Tony Drinnenberg and all our amazing collaborators! Check out the thread below for new work from the lab on plasticity, cortex and spatial representations for navigation!
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doi.org/10.1126/scie...
This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire.
It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!
This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire.
It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!
Cross-species implementation of an innate courtship behavior by manipulation of the sex-determinant gene
In accepting a courting male, Drosophila subobscura females require nuptial gift giving in which a male gives regurgitated crop contents to her mouth to mouth. No similar behavior is found in D. melan...
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire.
It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!
This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire.
It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!
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The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our lab at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen is looking for a highly skilled and motivated TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. Are you proficient in histological and wet lab techniques and lab management? Then come apply for our position (4 years contract)! umg.recruiting-portal.com/r/z004xflh7r...
European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI) -- Technical Assistant (f/m/d)
Technical Assistant (f/m/d)
umg.recruiting-portal.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Our lab at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen is looking for a highly skilled and motivated TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. Are you proficient in histological and wet lab techniques and lab management? Then come apply for our position (4 years contract)! umg.recruiting-portal.com/r/z004xflh7r...
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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!
October 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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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I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
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Congratulations Dr Anggi Hapsari and Dr Oliver Barnstedt at our Campus on their new ERC Starting Grants!
Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
#Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu
Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
#Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Congratulations Dr Anggi Hapsari and Dr Oliver Barnstedt at our Campus on their new ERC Starting Grants!
Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
#Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu
Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
#Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu
We are super excited that our project ***LearnMamBo*** Neuronal Dynamics of Learning and Memory in the Mammillary Body gets an #ercstartinggrant @erc.europa.eu – we will dissect the associated circuits supporting episodic memory – REACH OUT if interested in joining this project!
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ALT: a man wearing a hat and a suit says mambo no. 5 .
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September 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We are super excited that our project ***LearnMamBo*** Neuronal Dynamics of Learning and Memory in the Mammillary Body gets an #ercstartinggrant @erc.europa.eu – we will dissect the associated circuits supporting episodic memory – REACH OUT if interested in joining this project!
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There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article.
www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...
www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...
Do we understand how neural networks work?
Yes and no.
www.verysane.ai
August 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article.
www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...
www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...
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Reposted by Oliver Barnstedt
🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'
It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'
It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞
Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663268v1
July 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'
It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'
It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞
Reposted by Oliver Barnstedt
Reposted by Oliver Barnstedt
@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!
Do you do Neuropixel recordings and are you struggling with preprocessing? The Power Pixels pipeline is an easy-to-use pipeline from raw data to neural activity of single neurons in specified brain regions 🧠 Now on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Power Pixels: a turnkey pipeline for processing of Neuropixel recordings
There are many open-source tools available for the processing of neuronal data acquired using Neuropixels probes. Each of these tools, focuses on a part of the process from raw data to single neuron a...
www.biorxiv.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!
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It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience
Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
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A short thread follows for those interested.
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rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
rdcu.be
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
1/n
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
1/n
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Impressive study from Richard Morris's group:
Hippocampal reactivation of planned
trajectories is required for effective goal
choice in an allocentric memory task
#hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hippocampal reactivation of planned
trajectories is required for effective goal
choice in an allocentric memory task
#hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Impressive study from Richard Morris's group:
Hippocampal reactivation of planned
trajectories is required for effective goal
choice in an allocentric memory task
#hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hippocampal reactivation of planned
trajectories is required for effective goal
choice in an allocentric memory task
#hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:
Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:
The estrous cycle modulates hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding
Histological evidence suggests that the estrous cycle exerts a powerful influence on CA1 neurons in the mammalian hippocampus. Decades have passed sin…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:
Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:
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Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik
May 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik
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Our paper is out in Nature.
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature
Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Our paper is out in Nature.
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very excited to share part of my postdoctoral work from the @tjryan.bsky.social lab, out now in @nature.com. Here, my brilliant co-author @andreamunozz.bsky.social and I explored the link between memory engrams and whole-body metabolism.
A thread: 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A thread: 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature
Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Very excited to share part of my postdoctoral work from the @tjryan.bsky.social lab, out now in @nature.com. Here, my brilliant co-author @andreamunozz.bsky.social and I explored the link between memory engrams and whole-body metabolism.
A thread: 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A thread: 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...