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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…

New Collaborative Paper on Probabilistic Axon Targeting with the Hassan Lab in Nature Neuroscience (May 2025)

By prh May 16, 2025News, Publications

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)

By prh April 26, 2025Awards, Grants, News

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…

New research paper on self-organization of brain wiring in Science (Mar. 2024).

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 (Feb. 2024)

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…

Grant Award (Jul. 2023): DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship for Neele Wolterhoff

By prh July 25, 2023Awards, Grants, News

Congratulations to Dr. Neele Wolterhoff for securing independent postdoctoral funding through the German Research Foundation Walter Benjamin Program! Neele's project is entitled 'The art of the sppring: axo-dendritic morophogenesis underlying…

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…