Flexibility in Circuits & Behaviour Lab

Reinhard Lab

19/03/2024 Lucia Zanetti will join the team as a postdoc!

We are excited to welcome Lucia Zanetti on April 1st (no joke)! She's a retina physiologist and will support the team with her great expertise. Welcome!

12/03/2024 Today we did our very first Neuropixels brain recording!

Taking over from Ming-Ching, Po-Yu got our setup ready and we were able to record our very first visual responses in the Flexibility Lab :)

08/03/2024 Neurobiology PhD applications are open - deadline is April 12!

The Neurobiology labs will hire up to 4 PhD students (start date November 2024). Check here, here and here for info, and apply through the online portal.

Our lab is committed to sharing protocols, texts on how to apply for grants and positions etc. 

 Mission Statement

Imagine you are cycling through your town and a car door suddenly opens in front of you. You might react by hitting the breaks or by dodging the door and cycling around it. Which reaction is induced depends on external and internal factors – the traffic next to you, your stress level because of the meeting you're cycling to…

Avoiding danger, such as the car door, is one of the most essential and conserved set of behaviors, observed in most species from crabs to primates. To optimize an animal’s survival, the type, magnitude, and kinetics of avoidance responses need to be flexible and adaptable to the current context (traffic, stress…). However, the neural circuit elements that allow for this flexibility in behavioural output are largely unknown. Our aim is to identify how information about the environment and state can adapt behavioural decision making

Equally importantly, the goal of the lab is to enable every member to fulfill their professional goals and to find their path in the lab and beyond – in academia or any other context they choose. We aim to create a space where ‘doing science’ is a motivating and collaborative search for new insights.