It was fantastic to host Jess Cardin from Yale here, speaking in the Forum In-Code lecture series. We saw very exciting new data and had some great discussions. 

Julia spent four days at the lake in Potsdam: two days for the Incode Ph.D. student workshop and two days for the Incode Retreat. It was great to get to know many new members, meet our collaborators and SAB members, learn about progress in the different projects, and think about future directions. 

It was an immense pleasure to host Caroline Runyan from the University of Pittsburgh here for the Forum In-Code and to hear about her exciting research!

We will have two posters at the Göttingen meeting of the NWG: Chocka's on the mechanisms underlying interareal synchronization and Rohit & David's on spike transmission between areas.

We were happy to host Silvana Valtcheva for the IN-CODE lecture series. Very cool data and a great discussion! 

Julia had a ton of fun presenting at and discussing with the organizers of the ECN Student/Postdoc-run seminar series: Rhythms of the Mind. Also a great opportunity to catch up with collaborators, colleagues, and friends in Berlin. 

Justus Kautz joins for a short HiWi project until February. Welcome!

Julia is speaking at the Barrels meeting in Chicago, and Yael is presenting a poster about her second Ph.D. project. 

Yael and Julia spent two days at the Allen Institute in Seattle, watching experiments and surgeries for the Open Scope project and getting to know everybody. What an amazing place for science! 

David is presenting at the 10th bwHPC Symposium

Chocka, Rohit, and Julia had a great time (and some intense discussions) at the Bernstein retreat in Kloster Lichtenthal, Baden-Baden. Chocka presented his Ph.D. project and we heard about all the other amazing projects going on in the Freiburg neuroscience community. 

A brief write-up of the new OpenScope projects, including ours, is found here

All new in July: We moved to a bigger office and also got a lot of new help: Rohit Shankar joins for a rotation, Xiaotong Lu and Shreyansh Pathak join as new research assistants and Nicolas Llorens joins for a summer internship! Welcome all! 

Chocka, Yael and Julia are at FENS in Vienna! Come by and see Chocka's poster (204) on Friday afternoon! Yael and Chocka were also at the Flatiron CCN Neuro data analysis workshop before the main meeting. 

Yael Oran starts as a new Postdoc! Welcome!

We kicked off IN-CODE! Great to see everybody again and very happy to get started with all these exciting new projects and collaborations

Julia really enjoyed the Cosyne Workshops in Cascais! Catching up with old friends and new science. 

We had a great time at the Institute retreat at Schloß Beuggen together with the Bartos and Letzkus labs. 

Super excited that our project was chosen for this round of the Allen Institute Open Scope! What a privilege to get incredible two-photon data collected, curated, and delivered! Looking forward to a fun collaboration with Henning Sprekeler, the other PI on this project, and the entire team at the Allen Institute! 

Vanesa Pelcastre Neri  joins as a research assistant. Welcome!!

Had a nice time at the Freiburg christmas market with the early career scientists of the BrainWorlds Initiative

One last but not least for this crazy November: So excited that our SFB/CRC InCode between Freiburg and Berlin will be funded starting April 2024! Can't wait to get to work with this amazing group of researchers!

Chocka is presenting a poster at SfN in Washington! Go see 149.08 on Sunday afternoon to hear about contextual and laminar differences in inter-areal coherence! Also, check out Will and Masato's poster on like-to-like connectivity in V1 explaining image segmentation on Monday morning (212.07)

Julia is happy to be featured in the Project: "Frau* SCHAFFT Wissen" for the University of Freiburg (Sorry, German only)

Julia had a lot of fun co-organizing the Early Career session at the truly amazing BrainWorlds Freiburg Oxford Workshop

Julia is super excited to speak at the Bernstein conference in Berlin

Chocka attends the EMBO LINdoscope workshop in Magdeburg

Chocka attends the Systems Vision Science Symposium in Tübingen

Chocka goes to the i-Bio Summer School:  Advanced Computational Analysis for Behavioral
and Neurophysiological Recordings in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

Chocka and Julia attend the amazing Gordon conference on inhibition in the CNS in Les Diablerets. Tons of great science and tons of great hikes! And foosball!!

Paula Zimmer joins for a three-month internship! Welcome! 

Chocka, David and Julia are attending the Göttingen meeting. Chocka and David present their posters on Wednesday and Thursday! Come by! 

Julia is giving the Neurobiology Seminar in Fribourg, Switzerland! Back to the roots, nearly 10 years after my defense!

Jesús Hernandez joins for a rotation! Welcome!

Julia gives a talk at the CIN exchanges in Tübingen. Great fun talking to the IMPRS Ph.D. students and meeting old and new friends

Effat Salehi Far joins as a research assistant! Welcome!

Prejwal Prabhakaran joins for a lab rotation! Welcome! 

David and Julia will be at SfN in San Diego. Check out David's poster 469.17. on Tuesday morning!

Julia's paper "Cortical VIP neurons locally control the gain but globally control the coherence of gamma band rhythms" was accepted in Neuron!

Yue Kris Wu from Julijana Gjorgjievas lab receives an Add-on fellowship from the Joachim Herz foundation to collaborate with us on the role of interneurons in switching network states. Congratulations! Looking forward to working together!

David is presenting at the Ernst Strüngmann Institut in Frankfut

Chocka is accepted to the Allen Institute Neuropixels and OpenScope Workshop in Seattle! Congratulations!

Julia is going to the Emmy Noether-Treffen in Potsdam

The entire lab is at the symposium: Neuronal Representation - "From Synapses & Microcircuits to Behaviour" in Freiburg. Amazing science right next door! 

Milla Eriksson is born! Congratulations!

Julia is presenting at FRIAS Colloquium Natural & Life Sciences

Julia is presenting at the ESI Talks

Julia is going to be at Cosyne in Lisbon. Excited about real-life interactions and actual poster sessions.

Julia is excited to speak at the wonderful general public lecture series  "Wege zur Erforschung des Gehirns"

Chocka is attending the Neurex Summer School: "Advanced Tools for Data Analysis in Neuroscience" in Strasbourg, France

Julia is speaking in the Symposium "Modulation and plasticity of inhibition in neocortical circuits" at the virtual Göttingen meeting of the German neuroscience society

Veit lab officially opens! Dr. David Eriksson and Chockalingam Ramanathan join the lab as the first postdoc and Ph.D. student, respectively. Welcome!

Joris Veit is born! Welcome!

Julia is giving the Bernstein seminar

Julia is presenting at the Freiburg Neuro Retreat. Great way to get to know the Freiburg neuroscience community!