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German Research Foundation (DFG) Annual Report 2025 Highlight (July 2026)

By prh July 7, 2026News

(Image: Dr. Abhi Kulkarni) Our team effort, the research consortium RobustCircuit is proud to be highlighted in the annual report of the German Research Foundation 2025 as the only FOR/SFB…

Humboldt Award Ceremony with German Federal Minister for Research (Mar. 2026)

By prh March 25, 2026Awards, News

We are proud to host the Humboldt research awardee Bassem Hassan, who received his award together with the Hiesinger Lab as host, from the German Federal Minster for Research, Technology…

New research article on retinotopic brain wiring in Current Biology (Feb. 2026)

By prh February 5, 2026News, Publications

Check out the paper here and our video abstract shown in this post! https://youtu.be/zhZPwjeLHVQ

Grant Award (Jan. 2026): DFG Walter-Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship for Jakob Rentsch

By prh January 30, 2026Awards, Grants, News

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

By prh January 8, 2026Awards, Grants, News

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

By prh December 13, 2025Awards, Grants, News

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)

By prh December 13, 2025Awards, Grants, News

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

By prh July 16, 2025News

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

By prh July 2, 2025Awards, Grants, News

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- and downloading of…

Grant Award (Jun. 2025): A bio-inspired electrical engineering approach to circuit development

By prh June 20, 2025Awards, Grants, News

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…