News Archives - RobustCircuit

Humboldt Award for Bassem Hassan, hosted by the Hiesinger lab

By robin.hiesinger January 8, 2026Awards, Grants, News

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…

RobustCircuit approved for funding period 2026-2030

By robin.hiesinger December 13, 2025Awards, Grants, News

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

By robin.hiesinger May 11, 2025News

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)

By robin.hiesinger May 10, 2025News, Publications

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

By robin.hiesinger March 19, 2025News

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

By robin.hiesinger March 16, 2025News, Presentations

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)

By robin.hiesinger January 17, 2025News, Publications

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…

New Paper on robustness of synaptic plasticity (Sigrist Lab, Project P1, together with Z1) in Nature Communications (2025)

By robin.hiesinger January 4, 2025News, Publications

2025 Jan 2;16(1):271. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55382-9. Blobby is a synaptic active zone assembly protein required for memory in Drosophila J Lützkendorf , T Matkovic-Rachid , S Liu, T Götz , L Gao, O Turrel, M Maglione, M Grieger S Putignano, N Ramesh, T Ghelani , A…

New Paper on Connectomic Stereotypy (Wernet Lab, Project P3) in Nature

By robin.hiesinger October 9, 2024News, Publications

Nature. 2024 Oct;634(8032):181-190. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07967-z. Connectomic reconstruction predicts visual features used for navigation. Garner D, Kind E, Lai JYH, Nern A, Zhao A, Houghton L, Sancer G, Wolff T, Rubin…

2nd Ebernburg Retreat, June 2024

By robin.hiesinger July 12, 2024News, Presentations

The RobustCircuit Consortium celebrated the summer solstice from June 21-23 at the Ebernburg near Frankfurt, Germany! We were honored and grateful to host six spectacular international speakers, who were seriously…