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!

Congrats @laurabusse.bsky.social and coauthors on a great study on different visual gamma oscillations! @cr31.bsky.social and I had a lot of fun writing the preview!

Fantastic symposium on circuit function last week here at CIPMM. Thanks to our guests Kristina Lippmann, Magdalene Schlesiger, Fiona Muellner and @juliaveit.bsky.social for sharing their latest on synaptic function, interneuron & pyramidal cell networks and long-range communication.

Bilateral integration in somatosensory cortex is controlled by behavioral relevance - Nature Neuroscience How sensory signals from both sides of the body are integrated into a single percept is not well understood. Park et al. show that callosal signaling supports the integration of bilateral tactile stim...

I'm really proud of my two graduate students, Hyein and Hayagreev, for getting this challenging and exciting project across the finish line. We reveal the state-dependent logic that underlies callosal signaling between the somatosensory cortices. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to host Jessica Cardin (Yale School of Medicine) for a FORUM IN-CODE talk on “Cortical network events underlying perceptual behaviour” - invited by Julia Veit.
Thanks for the inspiring science and lively lunch with our PhDs & postdocs! @jess-cardin.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

Enjoying the IN-Code retreat organized by @mbartos.bsky.social in beautiful Potsdam. Great talks about the impact of interneurons on the neural code. @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social #neuroscience #interneurons

Engaging poster session at the IN-Code retreat. Thanks to our SAB members and all researchers of the CRC for their interest! All students did a great job presenting their projects. @mbartos.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

Yes, we were surprised to discover that the sensory map in superior colliculus (SC) is biased by stimulus value, while the map in cortex maintained a faithful representation of receptor space. Bias in the SC map emerged only when the sensory associations had opposite values. Check out the paper!

Visit our Symposium:
‚Dendritic inhibition - it’s role in network dynamics, memory & behavior,
at Göttingen Meetings of the German Neuroscience Society, March 29, 2025, Hall 10.

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Talks by Johannes Letzkus, Matthew Larkum, Panayiota Poirazi, Marlene Bartos.