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 to animal population levels. Here is a selection of five current highlights:
Imprecision in Vision: Lessons From Neural Circuits in the Fly. (2026) Wernet MF, Silies M. Bioessays. 2026 Mar;48(3):e70122. doi: 10.1002/bies.70122.
Selective adhesion preserves eye patterning as axonal retinotopy in the Drosophila brain (2026). Kehribar M, Wit CB, Krasikova K, Agi E, Reifenstein ET, Wolterhoff N, Wriedt LQ, von Kleist M, and Hiesinger PR (2026). Current Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.01.007
see also Cell Press Video Abstract on YouTube and the Dispatch on this article in Curr Biol. by I.Salecker
Individuality across environmental context in Drosophila melanogaster. (2026) Mathejczyk TF, Knief, C, Haidar, MA, Freitag F, McClary T, Wernet MF, Linneweber GA. elife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98171.4
Semi-automatic geometrical reconstruction and analysis of filopodia dynamics in 4D two-photon microscopy images. (2026) Brence B, Brummer J, Dercksen VJ, Özel MN, Kulkarni A, Wolterhoff N, Prohaska S, Hiesinger PR, Baum D. BMC Bioinformatics. 2026 Feb 16;27(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s12859-026-06385-4. PMID: 41699451 Free PMC article.
Myosin 15 participates in assembly and remodeling of the presynapse. (2025) Petzoldt AG, Escher MJF, Turrel O, Gimber N, Schedina IM, Walter S, Götz TWB, Maglione M, Toppe D, Matkovic-Rachid T, Neumann A, Lützkendorf J, Schmoranzer J, Lehmann M, Großhans J, Sigrist SJ. J Cell Biol. 2025 Sep 1;224(9):e202305059. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202305059. Epub 2025 Jul 8.
