News - RobustCircuit

RobustCircuit welcomes its first 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…

New Paper on Self-Organization in Brain Wiring (Hiesinger and von Kleist Labs, Project Z1) in Science

By robin.hiesinger March 8, 2024News, Publications

Science 2024 Mar 8;383(6687):1084-1092. doi: 10.1126/science.adk3043. Epub 2024 Mar 7. Axonal self-sorting without target guidance in Drosophila visual map formation Egemen Agi # 1 , Eric T Reifenstein # 2 , Charlotte Wit 1…

New Silies Lab (P5) Paper: Heterogeneity of synaptic connectivity in the fly visual system in Nat. Comm.

By robin.hiesinger February 29, 2024News, Publications

Wiring variability in the fly - a connectome analysis by RobustCircuit Team Project 5, spearheaded by Jacquline Cornea in Marion Silies' lab. Now out (open access) in Nature Communications -…