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New research paper on self-organization of brain wiring in Science.

By prh March 2, 2024News, Publications

Axonal self-sorting without target guidance in Drosophila visual map formation Egemen Agi # 1 , Eric T Reifenstein # 2 , Charlotte Wit 1 , Teresa Schneider 1 , Monika Kauer 1 , Melinda Kehribar 1 , Abhishek…

New Review Article on Synaptic Promiscuity in Brain Development

By prh February 8, 2024News, Publications

Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 5;34(3):R102-R116. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.037. Synaptic promiscuity in brain development Neele Wolterhoff 1 , P Robin Hiesinger 2 Affiliations PMID: 38320473 PMCID: PMC10849093 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.037 Free PMC article Abstract…

Review Article on Turnover of Synaptic Adhesion molecules

By prh March 2, 2023News, Publications

Molecular interactions between pre- and postsynaptic membranes play critical roles during the development, function and maintenance of synapses. Synaptic interactions are mediated by cell surface receptors that may be held…

PhD Suchetana Dutta – Congratulations!

By prh February 2, 2023Graduations, News

Suchetana successfully defended her PhD at the same time as she published her wonderful paper. Under co-supervision with Bassem Hassan in our RobustCircuit project, she did all her work with…

New research paper on synapse stabilization by suppression of membrane degradation

By prh January 13, 2023News, Publications

EGFR-dependent suppression of synaptic autophagyis required for neuronal circuit development Suchetana B. Dutta, Gerit Arne Linneweber, Maheva Andriatsilavo, Peter Robin Hiesinger*, Bassem A. Hassan*, * co-corresponding authors In briefUsing the…

Upcoming Public Lectures

By prh July 5, 2022News, Presentations

August 16, 2022: Gordon Research Conference 'Visual System Development, Southbirdge, MA, USA. 'Target-Independent Visual Map Formation in Drosophila'. September 7, 2022: NeuroFly 2022, St. Malo, France. 'Visual Map Formation in…

Hiesinger Lab @ Flymeeting San Diego, April 6-11

By prh February 25, 2022News, Presentations

We are looking forward to travel (in person!) to San Diego with four lab members April 6-April 11 for the Genetics Society of America Drosophila Research Conference. You will find…

Research Unit RobustCircuit now online

By prh February 10, 2022Grants, News

From Imprecision to Robustness in Neural Circuit Assembly RobustCircuit is a Research Consortium to Study the Role of Noise in Brain Wiring.The Research Unit Consists of 13 Laboratories and is…