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15/03/2025 Antonio di Soccio joins the lab!
Antonio joins the lab as a postdoc to contribute to our ERC project. He brings experience with behaviour, ephys and calcium imaging assays from his PhD with Claudia Lodovichi to our lab. Welcome Antonio!
01/03/2025 Giusy (Giuseppina) Russo joins the lab!
Giusy will do her Master Thesis in our lab. Her focus will be on behaviour experiments with Peromyscus under the superivision of Camilla, Lucia and me. Welcome Giusy!
21/02/2025 Visit and seminar at NICO in Turin
Katja visited the Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi in Turin. It was great to connect with other neuroscientists in Italy! Thank you Stefano Zucca for hosting and interesting discussions with Serena Bovetti. Picture by Enrica Boda.
11-14/02/2025 The Lab at the EMBL Subcortical Meeting
Multiple lab members are going to the Subcortical Meeting in Assisi! Lucia and Po with a poster each, and Katja as an invited speaker. We'll cover innate behavior and brain changes in prion-deficiency, at different circadian times and light levels.
15/11/2024 Peromyscus arrive at SISSA!
Finally our two Peromyscus species arrived at SISSA. They will allow us to address fascinating questions about comparative biology and the evolution of neural circuits and behaviours.
01/11/2024 Çınar Furkan Ilhan joins the lab!
Çınar is joining the lab as a new PhD candidate - welcome! He will be busy with courses in the next few weeks while finding out which project he'd like to work on.
31/10/2024 Publication of the Lab Handbook
Following the SAFE Lab workshop in May, the attendees have created guidelines for lab handbooks. These are still under review and will be updated (contribute here!). However, based on these, we publish today the first version of the Reinhard Lab Handbook. This handbook details expectations and commitments by Katja, the PI of the lab. It is the basis for safe, fair, equitable, and informed interactions within the lab. A shorter version is publicly available here, a more detailed version is shared within the lab.
16/10/2024 Congratulations to Camilla and Po-Yu on their successful progress reports!
Every October, all PhD students present an update on their research during a public talk. Po-Yu and Camilla did an excellent job at presenting their research from their first year in the lab - and we celebrated with Korean dinner.
10/2024 External mentorship programme for our PhDs
PhD candidates in the lab pointed out the lack of external mentorship during a SISSA PhD - so we started our own programme. We're grateful to Dr. Annette Allen and Dr. Sabine Krabbe who agreed to be our first external mentors providing scientific and other inputs!
Mentorship
09/07/2024 Giovanni joins the lab!
Giovanni is joining the lab for his master internship and thesis. He will be working with Po and study how circadian rhythm affects innate behaviours. Welcome Giovanni!
10/09-11/09/2024 Conference Breakthroughs in Understanding Natural Behaviour and its Neural Underpinnings
Katja talked about brand new data at this exciting conference in Manchester. Combined with a first introduction to the adorable Rhabdomys that we'll soon bring to Trieste from Rob Lucas' lab.
28/07-02/08/2024 International Congress for Neuroethology
Lucia and Katja got inspired at this year's ICN conference in Berlin. We came home with many new ideas and potential collaborations. A must for everyone interested in neuroethology and lovers of TED talks about "crazy" species.
13/06/2024 Lab Outing!
After a beautiful short hike from Basovizza through the Carso to the Slovenian border, we enjoyed an authentic Brazilian BBQ (churrasco) - and of course some Caipirinhas!
06/06/2024 Registrations for RELab summer school open!
Rewilding Ethology Laboratory is a summer school dedicated to (neuro)ethology including field trips. Katja will be one of the instructors.
05-08/05/2024 SAFE Lab workshop for young PIs.
Katja attended this excellent workshop in Tuscany and took a lot of insights back to the lab on how to make it a more equal, safe and healthy environment. Stay tuned for official updates!
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!
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.
08/02/2024 We had the first lab dinner of 2024
This time we had Swiss fondue at Katja's place. We had too much fun and of course forgot to take a picture...
02/2024 Conference presence of the lab in 2024
This year, the Flexibility Lab will be represented by Katja at the Neuroethology meeting ICN2024 in Berlin and by Lorenza at FENS2024 in Vienna. Come say hi at our posters and symposia!
28/11/2023 - 01/12/2023 The lab goes to EMBL Subcortical Circuits Meeting in Heidelberg!
Lorenza presented a poster on the impact of ambient light on innate behaviour, and Katja talked about postdoc work studying the evolution of neural circuits and behaviour.
22/11/2023 Lab Dinner with n = 5
To welcome our new lab members we had a fun lab pizza dinner. Now the table starts looking like a crowd and we're looking forward to our next outings!
11/2023 SISSA in the magazine Focus
The Italian laymen science magazine FOCUS reported on 45 years SISSA and printed a short interview with Katja and Sebastian Goldt (Data Science) on AI and biological neural networks.
7/11/2023 Camilla Lodetti & Po-Yu Liao join the lab as new PhD candidates!
Welcome to the Flexibility Lab! We are excited to have two new lab members who bring already plenty of experimental skills with them.
03/10/2023 Lorenza presented successfully her 1st year's work during the Neurobiology progress report!
The lab is proud of her involvement in building the lab, her first behaviour data sets, and everything she's learned about viruses, colliculus, in-vivo electrophysiology etc. Welcome to your second year, Lorenza!
22-24/09/2023 SISSA Neuroscience at Trieste Next
Our booth at this outreach event introduced the general public to the genetic code, shapes and functions of neurons, and used the rubber hand experiment to raise the question of how do you know where your body ends. The SISSA communications teams and many volunteer students and postdocs made this a very successful event despite rain and wind!
17-20/09/2023 Katja at ERM2023. Katja was getting the latest news from the retina field and presented data from Peromyscus work at the 2023 edition of the European Retina Meeting at the alma mater University of Tuebingen.
16/08/2023 We did our very first behaviour experiment today! Super excited to have collected the very first data set of our lab! Congrats to Lorenza for being part of setting up everything, thanks to Marco Gigante for building the behaviour setup, to Farrow Lab members for answering my questions, and to bonsai for the open source interface!
10-14/07/2023 Lorenza and other SISSA PhD candidates and postdocs are attending the Cajal Experimental Neuroscience Bootcamp 2023!
Check out the videos of their robot!
07/07/2023 Ming-Ching Chiang will join the lab August 1st!
We're excited to welcome very soon our newest lab member and first postdoc. Ming-Ching is joining us from Dr. Shih-Chieh Lin's lab in Taiwan.
06/07/2023 New preprint on evolution of innate behaviours is out! Together with Felix Baier, Hopi Hoekstra and Karl Farrow, we've found surprising differences in threat aversion of different Peromyscus species and identified a central brain node underlying those differences.
Find more info also on Twitter.
28-29/06/2023 Katja @ The Crick and LMB Cambridge
Katja presented postdoc work that forms the basis of the Flexibility Lab and to learn about the amazing research of the labs at those institutes. Thank you Petr Znamenskiy and Marco Tripodi!
29/05/2023 We're moving in!!!
Today we have started moving into our renovated lab space. Unpacking everything that has already arrived and deciding where things should go - it feels like a real lab now!
21-26/05/2023 Poster @GRC_Modulation
Katja is discussing science and presenting data linking old to new work about light-dependent innate behaviours at the GRC Meeting on Modulation of Neural Circuits and Behavior.
10/05/2023 Lorenza @Paris Spring School
Lorenza is spending 2 weeks on learning everything about phys, imaging and optogenetics and meeting many other cool scientists at the Paris Spring School!
24/03/2023 Katja's Talk @World-wide neuro
Check out Katja's World Wide Neuro talk about Routing and modulation of retinal input to circuits underlying aversive behavior
23/03/2023 Katja gave an impromptu talk at the Goettingen Neuroscience Meeting 2023 about collaborative work with Felix Baier, Hopi Hoekstra and Karl Farrow on innate behaviours and underlying circuits in Peromyscus.
13/03/2023 Lorenza got accepted for the Paris Spring School where she'll learn evertyhing about ephys, imaging and optogenetics!!
02/03/2023 Today the renovation works of our lab start - we're excited to be able to move in soon!!
13/02/2023 Il Piccolo writes about non-Italian female group leaders in Trieste (paywall...)
22/01/2023 Calls for 5 Neurobiology PhD positions open (deadline 24/03, start 01/11)
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