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 the Drosophila brain‘ and is based on new technology development to use 2-photon microscopy in observing and understanding how neurons interact in the developing brain.