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obarnstedt.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen. Group leader researching the neuronal circuitry underlying memory and action. Alumnus Jacobs University, Oxford, DZNE, LIN, OvGU. http://barnstedtlab.com ORCID: 0000-0001-7924-6043
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Applications are open for the @lakeconferences.bsky.social on Neural Coding & Dynamics in Seattle – co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel! 📆 9/28 to 10/2 📍 Seattle, USA 🧠📈 All career stages welcomed. Apply to attend by May 23: alleninstitute.org/events/lake-... #LakeConference

The first PinkyCaMP plasmids are now available on Addgene🧬… more coming soon 🚀! Stay tuned! www.addgene.org/Olivia_Masse...

Nature An opponent striatal circuit for distributional reinforcement learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👉 Only two days left to use your chance and submit a Late Poster for the Göttingen Meeting 2025 👈 #NWG2025

Great opportunity to work with a brilliant mind on exciting projects in a great research environment! 👇

Open positions in our lab. Just sayin…

Want to hear more about hippocampus-to-cortex feedback circuit? Our paper with the Basu lab is out in Nat Neuro! rdcu.be/eak1k . Well done Tanvi Butola!

🕷️ Spiders have a modular visual system with 8 eyes 👀 that are able to specialize for varying tasks Turns out, a pair of secondary eyes 👀 (the two smaller ones flanking their large ones) are specially tuned for perceiving biological motion! 🦟🪰 Check it out!: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)

Great to see the Multiscale Bioimaging Excellence Cluster (MBExC) 🔬♥️🧠 at Bluesky now! Welcome, @mbexc.bsky.social ! 🎉

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social #KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com @kavlifoundation.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Paper is accepted 🚨 I continued it besides my main PhD project. Thanks to everyone involved. It's about 👇 👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Happy head direction cell day y’all! On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984. Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)

Cool study showing that info rate of place cells remains independent of running speed (by modulation of theta amplitude) At high speeds (~40cm/s), the resolution of phase coding at theta (8Hz) is 5cm & should be more precise at low speed. So, what happens? 1/3 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

NeuroTorch: A Python library for neuroscience-oriented machine learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.29.630683v1

EBBS is a great meeting, and in beautiful Bordeaux too - come along! We have a 🔥 symposium on subcortical control of innate behavior 🤓 #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Happy Holidays from Barnstedt Lab and Petzold Lab at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen! This Christmas was very special by hosting, for the first time, the lab members of our newly founded labs. So much looking forward to all the exciting science we will do together in the coming year!

Delighted to highlight our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out now in Nature from @behrenstimb.bsky.social and crew: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Understanding this kind of schematic pattern learning and transfer will be key, IMO, to moving towards models of what we might call "higher-order cognition" or "reasoning". 🧠📈 🧪

Really excited to share this Preview that my student Talha Soluoku and I wrote about this new article from @adredish.bsky.social lab on mPFC, HPC, the dorsal striatum, and cognitive flexibility. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Fantastic journey through the history of hippocampal extra cellular recording techniques and the search for cell assemblies by Bruce McNaughton. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Pls reskeet! Just five more days to apply for this cool (admittedly, I'm biased) and fully-funded #PhD project in our lab!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Juan and Hugo and the rest of the authors. Not sure if anyone is on bsky yet.

🚀 movement—our free, open-source Python package for analysing animal motion—just got an upgrade (v0.0.21). movement offers a modular, consistent interface for processing motion tracks from tools like DeepLabCut and SLEAP. Check it out: movement.neuroinformatics.dev

The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

1/ How do animals integrate different forms of learning? Our @eyalrozenfeld.bsky.social new study in Science Advances shows that active mechanisms prevent the co-formation of competing memories. Here’s what we found! 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔔 Did you hear? The location of the upcoming #FENSForum has been changed to #Barcelona! 🇪🇸 From 4-8 July 2026, the Catalonian capital will host Europe's leading #neuroscience conference. 🌟 🗞️ Read the latest #FENS2026 updates here: loom.ly/i5LdOio

🥳 BIG NEWS for the lab! 🥳 I'm excited to join the #Göttingen neuroscience community and the excellence cluster MBExC as a tenure-track group leader at the European Neuroscience Institute (ENI-G), where we will continue neural circuit science in a great research environment! mbexc.de/the-mbexc-we...

We are looking for a Data Scientist at the MBExC Excellence Cluster in Göttngen: shorturl.at/Jln3V . Please RT! Read on for more details.

Together with some friends we built an optical Brain Machine Interface to see if cortical activity (PPC) can control behaviour in real time, without animals having to learn to use it. Here's what happened: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice Commentary in @elife.bsky.social on new discovery linking Beta rhythms and the dopamine system: Brain Activity: Unifying networks of a rhythm elifesciences.org/articles/104... #neuroskyence #dopamine #beta-waves

I am excited that my first Bluesky post is to share our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social - "Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia." With @fxia.bsky.social , @valeriafascianelli.bsky.social and @stefanofusi.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...

Join us for the Sensation and Action conference 2025 – application is now open: lakeconferences.org

The lab has an open PhD position, to start as soon as possible. Very exciting opportunity to apply/learn miniscope imaging techniques to understand the role of hypothalamic circuits in learning and memory. Please share widely! ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk #neuroscience #neuroskyence #STEMjobs #neurojobs

We're hiring! Please share! Exciting opportunities for #PhD students, #postdocs, and #research assistants to join our team in exploring how the brain prioritizes actions in conflict. #Neuroscience #Drosophila Interested? Reach out! rezavallab.org

Check out our new review in PLoS Biology on how dynamic odour information can help mammals to navigate through their environment. Led by the fantastic Anantu Sunil & Olivia Pedroncini, this also marks my first last author publication from the University of Bonn! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

When we enter a new environment, we use visual input to rapidly build an internal model of the local spatial environment. How does our brain do this? We review past literature and suggest some new ways forward in our new review in @currentbiology.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Have you ever wondered how memories are processed downstream of the #hippocampus and how this is affected by #Alzheimer's? We believe we may find some answers by riding all the way down the fornix to the mammillary body. Apply here for a fully-funded #PhD with us: ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk

The Systems Neuroscience Mailing List @systems-neuro.bsky.social is celebrating its 8th birthday by joining 🦋 Bluesky 🦋 and automating the reposting here. Also check our website www.systemsneuroscience.eu to join our 2700+ member strong community and share or receive job ads, announcements, etc.

Love to see our passion project getting shared! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social #researchculture #labhandbooks

Women in Neuroscience Now a list! add to feeds/follow/suggest 😄 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Nature Neuroscience Inhibitory plasticity supports replay generalization in the hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The main output of the hippocampus is subcortical. Today, for the last class on the neurophys of navigation & mem, we will discuss this fantastic paper by @davidtingley.bsky.social (Buzsaki Lab) showing a link btw hippocampal sharp wave-ripples & glucose release. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n