New research article on retinotopic brain wiring in Current Biology (Feb. 2026)
Check out the paper here and our video abstract below! https://youtu.be/zhZPwjeLHVQ
Grant Award (Jan. 2026): DFG Walter-Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jakob Rentsch
Congratulations to Dr. Jakob Rentsch for securing independent postdoctoral funding through the German Research Foundation Walter Benjamin Program! Jakob's project is entitled 'Live imaging of adhesion-dependent axonal branch competition in…
2026 Humboldt Award for Bassem Hassan, hosted by the Hiesinger lab
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award to our close long-term collaborator and RobustCircuit co-PI Bassem Hassan to be hosted at the Hiesinger Lab in…
Consortium Grant Award (Dec. 2025): Research Unit FOR5289 ‘RobustCircuit’ approved for funding period 2026-2030
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a second funding period for the Research Consortium ‘RobustCircuit’ (FOR5289). All PIs were retained from the first funding period with new projects based…
Grant Award (Dec. 2025): Project ‘Autophagic Regulation of Synapse Formation’ in FOR5228 (Syntophagy, 2026-2030)
The research unit FOR5228 'Syntophagy' has been approved for a second funding period (2026-2030). We are grateful to contribute with project RP7: Autophagic regulation of synapse formation in the Drosophila…
Radio Interview and Podcast (Jul. 2025; in German): Die Neurobiologie der Künstlichen Intelligenz
Berlin Radio (RBB) interviewed Robin about the research in the lab and its connection to understanding information encoding in biological and artificial neural networks. The interview 'Die Neurobiologie der Künstlichen…
Grant Award (Jul. 2025): The Information Content of Brain Wiring
A Volkswagen Foundation 'Pioneering Research' project, starting 2026. The information content of the brain, i.e. the size of a hard drive it would take for lossless up- anddownloading of information…
Grant Award (Jun. 2025): A bio-inspired electrical engineering approach to circuit development
Insights from modeling growth of a Drosophila neural network June 2025 Together with the electrical engineer Dr. Karlheinz Ochs we received funding for an additional postdoc to study genome-driven circuit…
New Collaborative Paper on Probabilistic Axon Targeting with the Hassan Lab in Nature Neuroscience (May 2025)
A project that was started by Maheva Andriatsilavo as a shared postdoc in Berlin many years ago - brought to conclusion in Paris :) Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate…
Instrumentation Grant Award: new multiphoton microscope awarded (Apr. 2025; DFG 91b)
In preparation for a second funding period of our Research consortium 'FOR5289 RobustCircuit - From Imprecision to Robustness in Neural Circuit Assembly' we are proud to have been awarded a…