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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 1d

Want to know more about how do we collaborate across universities and countries to advance sensorimotor research and global health? Register (link below) and join us on October 16th in New York. Event sponsored by DWIH and University of Cologne, held at NYULH!

www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...

Motor Health: Transatlantic Cooperation Strategies and Tech Transfer in Sensorimotor Neuroscience | DWIH New York

www.dwih-newyork.org

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 12d

Yes. And the printing press i built since I can't even log in to print.

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 12d

My uk-koeln email has been accidentally deactivated by HR, so I lost access to emails, calendars and all linked accounts. So if I fail to reply, show up in meetings or forget deadlines please excuse me. As there is no timeline on when this will be fixed, the updated contact email is on gattolab.com

Research Lab | Gatto Lab | Germany

Gatto Lab researches sensorimotor adaption mechanisms and spinal cord circuits

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Sep 7

To keep up with technology in German Academia, I now built my own printing press. Soon you will be receiving my self-printed notes, job applications and grants rather than email replies and online forms.

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Aug 30

New lab preprint: Leveraging the updated AutoGaitA toolbox, we revealed distinct species-specific mechanisms to generate propulsion during walking and the conserved pattern of age-related propulsive decline from flies to humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AutoGaitA: A versatile quantitative framework for kinematic analyses across species, perturbations and behaviours

Individual behaviours require the nervous system to execute specialised motor programs, each characterised by unique patterns of coordinated movements across body parts. Deep learning approaches for b...

www.biorxiv.org

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Claire Wyart @clairewyart.bsky.social · Aug 26

Motor Folks: a nice opportunity to present your work & get feedback! BTW registration to the Conference "Searching Principles in Motor Control" on Sept 23-24, 25 is free but mandatory, please sign up and present your work to the French community ! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Jun 23

Also additional bonus points 1) I get to meet old friends, discuss science with them and do some mild partying; 2) meet new amazing trainees that in 10 years will be the future of motor control; 3) get to hike across Scotland afterwards to let all the science excitement sink kn

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Jun 23

I would like to thank again this year organizers and the ones started this in 2023. It's my favorite meeting because it's inclusive and diverse, and it brings the young motor community together in a wonderful 3 days of science, mentoring, and fun!

Simon A. Sharples, PhD 🇨🇦 @neurosharps.bsky.social · Feb 3

It's shaping up to be a fantastic summer for motor control meetings.

Registration for the second Motor Circuits Meeting hosted in St Andrews June 17-20 has just opened. Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at the meeting!!

motor-circuits.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/registration/

Registration and Call for Abstracts – Motor Control: Spinal Circuits and Beyond

motor-circuits.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Jun 18

Paper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation

Yao et al. developed a neuromechanical model based on experimental perturbations, aligning theory-predicted with genetically labeled cell types. This work highlights the importance of inhibitory inter...

www.cell.com

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Jun 15

The precarious life of modern scientists

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Jun 15

Book not papers ?

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Jun 14

Great perspective on speed limit of human information processing

Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · Jun 13

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain?
@andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Jun 13

After the advance of getting a fax machine, today we finally got carbon copy paper to order poster printing. University Hospital of Cologne, German leader in technology!

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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.

www.nature.com

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · May 21

I think I should celebrate my biggest achievement of the year: I finally own a fax machine. After getting a stamp, I am a step closer to true power in German academia!

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · May 16

Last week to register to this amazing conference!!! Cross species cord meeting, you can't miss it!

Salil Bidaye @salilbidaye.bsky.social · May 16

Hey spinal/ventral nerve cord folks. we’re organizing this cross species “cords” meeting @hhmijanelia.bsky.social . Hurry up and upload your abstracts. As a trainee these were my favorite meetings (small and focused) where I got the most useful feedback. DM in case of any Qs.

Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Mar 27

📢 Applications are now open for our cross-disciplinary conference on nerve cord circuits.

🧠 Join experts to probe the organization & function of cord circuits across species.

🏨 Hotel, meals & registration covered.

🗓️ Apply by May 27 @ janelia.news/CRD25

@hhmi.org
@salilbidaye.bsky.social

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iBehave @ibehave.bsky.social · May 12

🔊 Join us for the next #iBehave Lecture with Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber (Biozentrum Basel & FMI) @biozentrum.unibas.ch

🧠 Generating movements with brainstem circuits
Host: @ggatto.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
📍 Biocenter-Room 0.024
📧 Zoom: [email protected]
#seminar

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iBehave @ibehave.bsky.social · May 8

📢 #iBehave lecture by Prof. Bence Ölveczky @harvard.edu "Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution"

📅 May 9, 2025 | 15:15
Host: Tobias Rose @unibonn.bsky.social @UniklinikBonn
@ggatto.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social

📧 Zoom: [email protected]

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Silvana Valtcheva @svaltcheva.bsky.social · May 5

Lab news: Excited to join @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social as part of the Lise Meitner Excellence program 🚀 A new era for the (now doubled in size) lab. We keep digging into the postpartum brain and unfolding plasticity layers, you'll hear from us soon.

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Apr 28

GattoLab has a new mascotte HugoTheCat

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Apr 11

Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI | PNAS

Various strategies targeting spinal locomotor circuitry have been associated with functional improvements after spinal cord injury (SCI). However, ...

www.pnas.org

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Stéphanie C Koch @skochlab.bsky.social · Apr 6

New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, @liamebrowne.bsky.social and Rob Brownstone.

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Apr 5

Ethologically relevant behavioural assay for investigating reach and grasp kinematics during whole-body motor control in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647225v1

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · Apr 3

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Graziana Gatto (@ggatto.bsky.social)
studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.

Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

Dr. Graziana Gatto — Stories of WiN

studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.

www.storiesofwin.org

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thanks to Jonas Fisch and Lena Lion from the
#jNWG for organizing our symposium: "Wired for Motion: Perspectives on motor control" with Irene Pallucchi @sirinlieb.bsky.social @corinnagebehart.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · Mar 29

NWG2025 is over - Driving back with Mr. President in the Unikoeln van!

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