Brain Dynamics

Brain Dynamics Seminar Series

SUMMER BREAK

The 4th Brain Dynamics Scientific Day will be held on 26th September. 

Next Seminar is scheduled for 24th October.

NEWS

• Doctor Sofie Valk, group leader at the MPI CBS and PI in the Brain Dynamics Graduate School, has received an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC)
• Brain Dynamics members Alexandra Bluhm and Harin Lee successfully defended their theses
• Three small collaborative proposals to receive Brain Dynamics Pilot Project grants
• Professor Robert Fledrich has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC)
• New DFG-funded research training group “NeuroTune” will soon be starting at Leipzig University to investigate the transmission of signals between nerve cells
• The third Brain Dynamics Scientific Day held on 24th September
• Doctoral candidates share their impressions on having a Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC)

Latest publications by our doctoral candidates:

• Wehle S, Gundlach C, Müller MM.
  Neural dynamics of shifting visual attention between objects and locations in early visual cortex.
  Cortex. 2025 Aug 21;191:292-304.
• Li L, Déniz T, Huff L, Jurkat S, Missana M, Tietz L, Grueneisen S.
  Prosociality is centred on intentions, not outcomes.
  Anim Cogn. 2025 Jul 31; 28(1): 76.
• Plantera L, Immig K, Fritsche AK, Reinicke M, Zemer A, Monsonego A, Ceglarek U, Bechmann I.
  Exploring the Impact of a High-Fat Diet on Brain Homeostasis: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Absence of Inflammation.
  Mol Nutr Food Res. 2025 Jul 28: e70168.
• Lüttig A, Perl S, Franz D, Kotyra M, Morawski M, Köhling R, Richter A.
  Expression of the extracellular matrix component brevican prior and after deep brain stimulation in the dt^sz hamster model of dystonia.
  Brain Res Bull. 2025 Jul 28; 230: 111486.
• Owen R, de Macedo G, Nerlich J, Scharkin I, Bartmann K, Döbler J, Engelmann B, Rolle-Kampczyk UE, Leuthold D, Gutsfeld S, Schweiger N, Tal T.
  Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) antagonizes gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors in larval zebrafish and mammalian models.
  Toxicol Sci. 2025 Jul 23: kfaf101.
• Jin Y, Aravamudhan A, Cebulla N, Schirmer D, Runau E, Flamm L, Terhorst C, Jähnel L, Güse J, Giordani N, Wieser A, Sodmann A, Blum R, Kittel RJ, Sommer C.
  Diminished transient receptor vanilloid 1 on skin nerve fibers in painful bortezomib-induced peripheral neuropathy.
  Pain. 2025 Jul 7 (): 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003709.
• Keil J, Breuer J, Küchler R, Bracher AJ, Schulz CC, Açıl D, Bergmann S, Alexander N, Stalder T, Miller R, Licata-Dandel M, Mall V, Augustin M, Wenzel AS, von Polier G, Radeloff D, von Klitzing K, White LO.
  Lost Narratives: Identifying Predictors of Attrition and Differences in Recruitment Effort in a Longitudinal Study on Child Maltreatment.
  Child Maltreat. 2025 Jul 4: 10775595251352425.
• Fink-Lamotte J, Wehle S, Brinkmann F, Pelzer M, Exner C, Stierle C.
  Shame and disgust in patients with inflammatory skin diseases: a systematic review of psychological correlates and psychotherapeutic approaches.
  Front Med (Lausanne). 2025 Jun 30; 12:1620940.
• Tast V, Schröger E, Widmann A.
  Auditory N1 Suppression and Omission N1 Do Not Share a Common Underlying Mechanism.
  Psychophysiology. 2025 Jun 19; 62(6): e70094.
• Lee H, Jacoby N, Hennequin R, Moussallam M.
  Mechanisms of cultural diversity in urban populations.
  Nat Commun. 2025 Jun 4; 16(1): 5192.
• Leuthold D, Herold NK, Nerlich J, Bartmann K, Scharkin I, Hallermann SJ, Schweiger N, Fritsche E, Tal T.
  Multi-behavioral phenotyping in early-life-stage zebrafish for identifying disruptors of non-associative learning.
  Environ Health Perspect. 2025 May 30.
• Bluhm A, Xiang W, Wien F, Thureau A, Chevreuil M, Raynal B, Geissler S, Wermann M, Schilling S, Bénas P, Hartlage-Rübsamen M, Schulze A, Sauter C, Roßner S.
  Monomers, Dimers, and Oligomers of Pyroglutamate-Modified α-Synuclein Fragments Exhibit Distinct Biophysical Characteristics.
  ACS Chem Neurosci. 2025 May 21; 16(10): 1919-1936.
• Herold NK, Gutsfeld S, Leuthold D, Wray C, Spath J, Tal T.
  Multi-behavioral fingerprints can identify potential modes of action for neuroactive environmental chemicals.
  Neurotoxicology. 2025 May 10; 108: 377-399.
• Hołubowska ZA, Schönwiesner M.
  Musical Structure Influences the Perception of Sound Location.
  J Cogn Neurosci. 2025 Apr 9: 1-16.
• Jänig J, Forschack N, Gundlach C, Müller MM.
  Exploring Attention in Depth: Event-Related and Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials During Attentional Shifts Between Depth Planes in a Novel Stimulation Setup.
  Vision (Basel). 2025 Apr 3; 9(2): 28.
• Tebbe AL, Rothmaler K, Zielke HE, Hepach R, Wiesmann CG.
  Altercentric Memory Error at 9 Months But Correct Object Memory by 18 Months Revealed in Infants' Pupil.
  Dev Sci. 2025 Mar 30; 28(3): e70016.
• Friedrich P, Schönwiesner M.
  Adaptation rate and persistence across multiple sets of spectral cues for sound localization.
  J Acoust Soc Am. 2025 Mar 1; 157(3): 1543-1553.
• Körner MB, Velluva A, Bundalian L, Krohn K, Schön K, Schumann I, Kromp J, Thum AS, Garten A, Hentschel J, Abou Jamra R, Mrestani A, Scholz N, Langenhan T, Le Duc D.
  Drosophila WDFY3/ Bchs overexpression impairs neural function.
  J Neurogenet. 2025 Feb 25: 1-16.
• Simon CM, Delestrée N, Montes J, Sowoidnich L, Gerstner F, Carranza E, Buettner JM, Pagiazitis JG, Prat-Ortega G, Ensel S, Donadio S, Dreilich V, Carlini MJ, Garcia JL, Kratimenos P, Chung WK, Sumner CJ, Weimer LH, Pirondini E, Capogrosso M, Pellizzoni L, De Vivo DC, Mentis GZ.
  Proprioceptive synaptic dysfunction is a key feature in mice and humans with spinal muscular atrophy.
  Brain. 2025 Feb 21: awaf074.
• Baragona V, Schröger E, Widmann A.
  Salient, Unexpected Omissions of Sounds Can Involuntarily Distract Attention.
  J Cogn Neurosci. 2025 Feb 6: 1-16.
• John A, Hettwer MD, Schaare HL, Saberi A, Bayrak Ş, Wan B, Royer J, Bernhardt BC, Valk SL.
  A multimodal characterization of low-dimensional thalamocortical structural connectivity patterns.
  Commun Biol. 2025 Feb 5; 8(1): 185.
• Pagiazitis JG, Delestrée N, Sowoidnich L, Sivakumar N, Simon CM, Chatzisotiriou A, Albani M, Mentis GZ.
  Catecholaminergic dysfunction drives postural and locomotor deficits in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy.
  Cell Rep. 2025 Jan 2; 44(1): 115147.

• 26.09. 09:00 - 16:30 Brain Dynamics Scientific Day - The fourth annual meeting of Brain Dynamics Graduate School members;
• 15-18.09. Maggot Meeting 2025 - Updates of advances in the study of behavioral neurogenetics in the drosophila larva;
• 28.08. 11:00 Guest lecture at the Institute of Biology - Prof Hiromu Tanimoto from the Graduate School of Life Sciences at the Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan will talk about "Breaking down memory consolidation in the fly brain";