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14.10.2025 - 2nd MODOLFOR WORKSHOP on Functional Imaging in Vertebrates, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, October 6-8, 2025
MODOLFOR students recently attended the second MODOLFOR workshop, this time on "Vertebrate Imaging", taking place at the Medical Campus of the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, from October 6th to 8th, 2025. Prof. Markus Rothermel, a MODOLFOR member, and his lab organized the workshop. This three-day event offered a great mixture of lectures, lab rotations, data analysis workshops, and hands-on practical training, as well as social events including a restaurant dinner and a BBQ. Students had the opportunity to experience the strong focus on imaging techniques in Magdeburg, with lab rotations at institutions such as the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). The workshop featured demonstrations ranging from 2-photon imaging, miniscopes, and light-sheet microscopy, to large-scale imaging using MRI, employed to answer a variety of neuroscience questions. Additionally, students had the opportunity to obtain high-resolution images of their brain, utilizing the 7-Tesla scanner located on campus. A MATLAB workshop focused on image processing, in which students could bring their own data and discuss how to efficiently analyze them with the experts from Mathworks. A special highlight was the keynote by Prof. Dmitry Rinberg NYU. In his lecture “Sensory coding from a behavioral perspective", he gave an overview of how single and multiphoton optogenetic approaches can be used to understand the olfactory code. His interaction with the students spurred discussions and nicely complemented the workshop.
27.06.2025
Congratulations to our spokesperson, Veronica Egger, who received the ERC Advanced Award for her project COLUMNET. The 3.5 million euro project will run for five years.
24.04.2025 - International olfactory symposium of the MODOLFOR (FOR5424) research unit, 25/26 March 2025, Göttingen
The FOR 5424 research group had a successful satellite symposium in the run-up to the 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. After an internal meeting on the first day with two keynote speakers and short lightning talks and poster presentations by MODOLFOR PhD students, renowned speakers presented their research to around 70 participants in the public part of the conference on the second day. The historic observatory as a conference venue also lent the event a special flair. We had an intensive but enriching 1.5 days together. A big thank you to all participants!
28.01.2025
Our MODOLFOR member Tobias Ackels (project Z1) receives the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Scientists. We congratulate him for the award!
20.12.2024 - Modulation in olfaction - Satellite Symposium, Wednesday March 26, 2025, Göttingen
16.-19.09.2024 - Poster presentation at the 53rd DGPs Congress / 15th ÖGP Conference, 16-19 September 2024, Vienna, Austria
Manon Leygnier
13.06.2024 - Organized symposia and oral presentations at ISOT 2024, 22.-26.06.2024, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sunday 23 June 2024, 13:30-15:00, Silfurberg B
Active sensing in a dynamic olfactory world
Tobias Ackels (University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany): Mice can discriminate odour source distance using plume temporal dynamics
Sunday 23 June 2024, 15:30-17:00, Silfurberg A
Insect chemical ecology in the Anthropocene
Organizers: Sharon Rose Hill (SLU Alnarp, Alnarp, Sweden), Markus Knaden (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany), and Dan-Dan Zhang (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
Lautaro Gandara (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany): Pervasive sublethal effects of agrochemicals as contributing factors to insect decline
Nan-Ji Jiang (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany): Elevated levels of ozone compromise insect pheromone communication
Dineshkumar Kandasamy (Lund University, Lund, Sweden): The role of styrene, an unusual natural product, in bark beetle-fungus interactions
Sukritha Nalikkaramal (SLU Alnarp, Alnarp, Sweden): Mosquito adaptation in the anthropocene: effects of elevated carbon dioxide levels and extended egg quiescence in Aedes aegypti
Dan-Dan Zhang (Lund University, Lund, Sweden): Spider olfaction: as sensitive as in insects
Sunday 23 June 2024, 15:30-17:00, Silfurberg B
Social chemosensory recognition and modulation of decision making
Organizers: Einat Couzin-Fuchs and Katrin Vogt (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
Barbara Caspers (Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany): More than familiarity? The impact of social olfactory communication in zebra finches
Sandeep Robert Datta (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA): Machine learning methods for understanding olfaction
Marilia Freire (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany): How social cues can guide individually navigating ants
Morgane Nouvian (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany): Social regulation of sting alarm pheromone responsiveness in honeybees
Katrin Vogt (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany): Social context-dependent cannibalistic behavior in Drosophila larvae
Monday 24 June 2024, 13:30-15:00, Kaldalón
Odor representations in the limbic system
Ilona C. Grunwald Kadow (University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany): Mapping neural circuits of state-dependent behavior in the fly
Wednesday 26 June 2024, 10:00-11:30, Silfurberg A
Interoceptive modulation: how body states (may) influence chemosensory perception
Organizers: Veronica Egger (Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany) and Silke Sachse, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
Annika Cichy (Bonn University, Bonn, Germany): State-dependent modulation of odor valence and social behavior of mice via the main olfactory pathway
Veronica Egger (Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany): Heartbeat-induced modulation of rat olfactory bulb neuronal activity via mechanosensitive ion channels
Claire Martin (anosmie.org, Durcet, France): Role of the hypothalamus in odor processing
Daniel Münch (Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal): Internal state dependent modulation of chemosensory processing in Drosophila melanogaster
Markus Rothermel (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Germany): Top-down modulation of olfactory information processing in mice
MODOLFOR members at ISOT 2024: Katrin Vogt, Markus Knaden, Silke Sachse, Veronica Egger, Annika Cichy, Markus Rothermel, Tobias Ackels, Ilona Grunwald Kadow
12.-14.03.2024 - First Annual Retreat of the FOR5424 PIs and PhD students at Weltenburg Abbey
Presentations by all students and PIs and the guest speakers of our Open Science workshop, Prof. Dr. Boris Barbour (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris), Prof. Dr. Björn Brembs, Dr. Sophie Stolzenberger, Dr. Gernot Deinzer (all U Regensburg). Thanks also to PD Dr. Tomer Czaczkes (U Regensburg) for the opening talk!
Fortunately everyone managed to join our retreat in person in spite of the train strike!
24.10.2023 - Poster presentations at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 11-15 November 2023, Washington, D.C., USA
1Regensburg Univ., Regensburg, Germany; 2Univ. Med. Ctr. Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 3Florey Neurosci. Inst., Melbourne, Australia
24.-29.09.2023 - ESITO XVIII (European Symposium for Insect Taste and Olfaction), Villasimius, Italy
organized by our MODOLFOR members Silke Sachse and Markus Knaden
contributions of our members with talks: Katrin Vogt and Martin Strube-Bloss
28.09.2023 - First FOR5424 method seminar
The FOR5424 monthly seminar series started on the 28th of September via Zoom with a short introduction round of the members and associates and the method lectures of the spokespersons Veronica Egger and Ilona Grunwald Kadow.
06.-07.06.2023 - First FOR5424 Retreat at the Rotwandhaus in the Bavarian Alps
Great scientific discussions and spectacular views with hiking.
Katrin Vogt, Markus Rothermel, Silke Sachse, Wolfgang Rössler, Veronica Egger
Also part of the Research Unit, but unfortunately missing in the picture:
Annika Cichi, Ilona Grunwald Kadow, Markus Knaden, Andreas Schaefer, Sophie Steculorum, Martin Strube-Bloss