4th RobustCircuit Retreat, Goslar, Sept. 2026
September 20-22, 2026 Thank you to:- Hotel Alte Münze in Goslar for preparing a seminar room built in 1509 for us,- 36 old and new RobustCircuit team members, and- our…
German Research Foundation (DFG) Annual Report 2025 Highlight
(Image Credit: Dr. Abhi Kulkarni) RobustCircuit is proud to be highlighted in the annual report of the German Research Foundation 2025 as the only FOR/SFB neuroscience consortium! The report is…
Humboldt Award for Bassem Hassan, hosted by the Hiesinger lab
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award to RobustCircuit PI Bassem Hassan to be hosted at the Hiesinger Lab in Berlin. Professor Bassem Hassan (Brain…
With new 2026 Publication Highlights into the 2nd RobustCircuit Funding Period
The RobustCircuit Consortium has started into its new funding period (2026-2030) with a series of new findings on the roles of noisy mechanisms that aid robustness from molecular to cellular…
RobustCircuit approved for funding period 2026-2030
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a second funding period for the Research Consortium 'RobustCircuit' (FOR5289). All PIs were retained from the first funding period with new projects based…
RobustCircuit welcomes its Scientific Advisory Board
We are proud to welcome Anna Levina, Benjamin de Bivort and Thomas Clandinin as the first RobustCircuit Scientific Advisory Board. The research consortium is entering its fourth year and currently…
New Paper on the Role of Probabilistic Axon Stabilization during Brain Wiring (Hassan, Hiesinger and von Kleist Labs, Projects P2, Z1) in Nature Neuroscience (2025)
Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster. Andriatsilavo M, Barata C, Reifenstein E, Dumoulin A, Tao Griffin T, Dutta SB, Stoeckli ET, von…
RobustCircuit Connectomics Hackathon, Mainz, March 2025
The RobustCircuit consortium has increased its effort to harvest connectomics data to understand precision and variability in wiring outcomes. Key papers from our teams were published last year by P3…
3rd RobustCircuit Retreat, Gut Sarnow, Februar 2025
Impressions from the 'Preparation for a Second Funding period'- meeting at Gut Sarnow, near Berlin, Februar 23-25.
New Paper on Temperature-Dependent Brain Wiring (Martelli Lab, Project P4) in Science Advances (2025)
Impact of developmental temperature on neural growth, connectivity and function Pascal Züfle, Leticia L. Batista, Sofia C. Brandão, Giovanni D’Uva, Christian Daniel and Carlotta Martelli Environmental temperature dictates the developmental…