Hangya lab
Marcus Stephenson-Jones, Group Leader of Principal Components of Goal-Directed Behaviour (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Bahevaiour) accepted our invitation to visit the IEM HAS and he gave a talk entitled ‘Genetically distinct ventral pallidal neurons encode the motivation for approach and avoidance’. Summary: A prominent trait of animals is their ability to predict reward…
The Society of Neuroscience Conference was held between 3rd and 7th of November 2018 in San Diego, California, USA with the aim of providing meeting and networking opportunities for scientists from all over the world who can share their research results and experiences. This year six of our colleagues (Balázs Hangya group leader, Diána Balázsfi,…
our posters by Tamás Laszlovszky, Panna Hegedüs and Barnabás Kocsis
First MD thesis defense from the hangyalab!
Chris Proctor visited us from Cambridge to try new tools that have great potential to improve our research!
We were active at the FENS Regional Meeting at Pecs, Hungary – participating in multiple events. Balazs was moderating a career forum at the satellite PhD conference HuNDoC Tomi gave a talk at HuNDoC titled Bursting cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain show synchronous activity in an auditory detection task Kati had a mini-poster at…
Dear Colleagues, I am excited to advertise the talks of Jolien Pas and Gerwin Dijk from Department of Bioelectronics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France. They will talk about the (probably near) future of electrophysiology, which still sounds a bit like science fiction – organic based electrodes and biodegradable guiding elements. The talks…
Dear Colleagues, On 7 July (Friday), we will host three excellent colleagues working on the zebrafish model system. 10:00-11:00 – Filippo Del Bene: Deciphering anatomy and function of an inter-hemispheric neural circuit in the zebrafish optic tectum 15:00-15:45 – Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi: The role of motile cilia-generated flow in olfaction 15:45-16:30 – Emre Yaksi: Studying the…
Systems Neuroscience and Decision Making = SYNDI: We had our first joint conference + lab retreat with the Kvitsiani lab! Invited speakers included Peter Bartho and Zoltan Somogyvari from Budapest, Arash Fassihi from Trieste and Laura Jimenez from Munich.