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We are at CoSyNe 2026 in Lisbon through Sunday, March 15, 2026. We present Poster 3-197 on Saturday, March 14. Meet me there, or message me in the conference app to talk about our research or opportunities in the lab.

At Naturalistic Neuroscience 2026 in Bonn, we present our work and host a lab visit showcasing our closed-loop neuroscience approaches.

The lab is a member of Computational Neuroscience Rheinland, the Bernstein Node Bonn-Köln.

I will present our work at the 10th European Vision and Cognition (EVC) Meeting.

We are currently recruiting for a joint postdoctoral position with the Sinz Lab; see the FENS job posting.

I will present our work at the Senses in Motion Symposium 2026 on May 18-21, 2026.

I will teach at TENSS 2026. Applications close March 8, 2026 (23:59 GMT+2); the school runs June 6-25, 2026.

We co-organize BonnBrain 2026, which will take place in Bonn on March 23–25, 2026.

Website migration update (February 11, 2026): replacing the legacy WordPress site (Rose Group legacy website) with a self-hosted lab website (GitHub Pages) workflow based on Lab Website Template.

The IMPRS BB Virtual Selection Symposium for the 2025 application cycle takes place on January 27-28, 2026.

Our paper The Role of Layer 6 Corticothalamic Circuits in Vision: Plasticity, Sensory Processing, and Behavior was published in Annual Review of Vision Science on September 17, 2025.

Invited keynote at the Bernstein Center Freiburg retreat on October 8-10, 2025, on High-dimensional population activity: data acquisition and analysis, at Kloster Lichtenthal (Baden-Baden).

I participated in TENSS Summer School 2025.

I participated in the CAJAL Course on Interacting with Neural Circuits, held June 8-27, 2025 at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

On May 1, 2025, I transitioned from a tenure-track appointment to a permanent professorship.

Yoshiki Hatashita received an HFSP Long-Term Fellowship on May 1, 2025.

We contributed to discussions at the Sensing LOOPS! SPP2411 Retreat in Potsdam, shared on March 5, 2025.

We presented our work at the EMBO Workshop: Subcortical sensory circuits: From perception to behavior, held February 11-14, 2025 in Assisi, Italy.

Our paper Sensory experience steers representational drift in mouse visual cortex was published in Nature Communications on October 23, 2024.

Our preview Feedback needs experience was published in Neuron on October 1, 2024.

I was invited to present our work at 9th European Vision and Cognition Meeting in Montecastelli Pisano, Italy (June 2024).

I was invited to teach at Transylvanian Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS) in Cluj-Napoca region, Romania (June 2024).

Yoshiki Hatashita joined troselab on May 1, 2024.

I was invited to present our work at SFB 1528 Seminar in Göttingen, Germany (April 2024).

I was invited to present our work at International Symposium Senses in Motion in Berlin, Germany (March 2024).

I was invited to present our work at TINS Neuroscience Seminar in an online seminar (March 2024).

Shanqian Ma joined troselab on November 1, 2023.

Aelton Araujo joined troselab on July 1, 2023.

I was invited to present our work at Interacting with Neural Circuits - CAJAL Neuroscience Summer School in Lisbon, Portugal (June 2023).

I was invited to teach at Transylvanian Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS) in Cluj-Napoca region, Romania (June 2023).

I was invited to present our work at RTG2416 Spring Retreat in Königswinter, Germany (May 2023).

I was invited to teach at Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal (January 2023).

I was invited to present our work at Bernstein Seminar in Freiburg, Germany (November 2022).

Our paper How to incorporate biological insights into network models and why it matters was published in The Journal of Physiology on September 25, 2022.

Our paper Functional and structural features of L2/3 pyramidal cells continuously covary with pial depth in mouse visual cortex was published in Cerebral Cortex on August 26, 2022.

I was invited to present our work at 8th European Visual Cortex Meeting in Seeon, Germany (August 2022).

I was invited to present our work at Symposium From Neural Circuits to Behaviour in Munich area, Germany (July 2022).

I was invited to teach at Transylvanian Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS) in Cluj-Napoca region, Romania (June 2022).

Our collaborative project with Tatjana Tchumatchenko was funded in DFG Priority Programme SPP 2411 “Sensing LOOPS”; see info wissenschaft 22-35 (May 10, 2022).

Our paper Orientation and direction tuning align with dendritic morphology and spatial connectivity in mouse visual cortex was published in Current Biology on April 1, 2022.

The iBehave consortium received NRW Research Networks funding; see the UKB announcement Land NRW fördert Forschungsnetzwerk iBehave (March 31, 2022).

Our paper Functional network topography of the medial entorhinal cortex was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on February 8, 2022.

The University of Bonn featured our work in the news story How does the brain change through learning?, published on November 12, 2021.

Jisoo Jung joined troselab on October 1, 2021.

Leon Kremers joined troselab on October 1, 2021.

I was invited to present our work at LINdoscope Neuroscience Summer School in Magdeburg, Germany (October 2021).

I was invited to teach at Transylvanian Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS) in Cluj-Napoca region, Romania (October 2021).

Our work was featured in The Scientist: Neurons Simplify Visual Signals by Responding to Only One Retina, published in the October 2021 issue.

Our work was discussed in Neuron, highlighting findings on eye-specific input convergence in the retinogeniculate pathway.

Our paper Limited functional convergence of eye-specific inputs in the retinogeniculate pathway of the mouse was published in Neuron on August 1, 2021.

Natalia Krasilshchikova joined troselab on June 1, 2021.

The University of Bonn featured our collaborative network in Insights into the brain: Collaborative research center goes into the next round, published on May 24, 2021.

Laura Kueck joined troselab on April 1, 2021.

In 2021, I took on the role of Vice Managing Director of the Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research (IEECR).

I was invited to present our work at Fortbildung für ärztliche und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter (Eye-Clinic UKB) in Bonn, Germany (November 2020).

I was invited to present our work at RTG2416 Seminar in RWTH Aachen, Germany (online) (July 2020).

I was invited to present our work at Nencki Systems Neuroscience Seminar in an online seminar hosted by Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland (June 2020).