3rd pre-FENS Motor Symposium "The Dynamics of Motor Control: Circuit Interactions in Health and Disease" on July 5th 2026 at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. Registration and abstract submission are open NOW until March 1st motor-control-satellite-2026.umh.es

🚨 Last chance to apply for participation for BonnBrain 2026! 🚨 We have very few slots left (attending with or without presentation) and will select the last participants early next week. Apply before December 15th to be considered! bonnbrain.de

Join us for BonnBrain 2026! The official deadline for abstract submission is December 15th, but we only have a few slots left and might be sold out before the deadline. Apply quickly 👉 bonnbrain.de to be considered by our Scientific Committee!

Out now: Favila, Capece Marsico et al. 2025, Nature Communications: Using longitudinal deep-brain imaging, we report that amygdala interneurons exhibit complex and heterogeneous plasticity during associative learning, at both the single-cell and population level. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to announce the official lineup for our in-person event! 🎉 There's one week left to sign up - registration closes Nov. 1st. You don't want to miss this! #StoriesOfWiN #SfN #WomenInNeuroscience

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Want to know more about how do we collaborate across universities and countries to advance sensorimotor research and global health? Register (link below) and join us on October 16th in New York. Event sponsored by DWIH and University of Cologne, held at NYULH! www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...

My uk-koeln email has been accidentally deactivated by HR, so I lost access to emails, calendars and all linked accounts. So if I fail to reply, show up in meetings or forget deadlines please excuse me. As there is no timeline on when this will be fixed, the updated contact email is on gattolab.com

To keep up with technology in German Academia, I now built my own printing press. Soon you will be receiving my self-printed notes, job applications and grants rather than email replies and online forms.

New lab preprint: Leveraging the updated AutoGaitA toolbox, we revealed distinct species-specific mechanisms to generate propulsion during walking and the conserved pattern of age-related propulsive decline from flies to humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor Folks: a nice opportunity to present your work & get feedback! BTW registration to the Conference "Searching Principles in Motor Control" on Sept 23-24, 25 is free but mandatory, please sign up and present your work to the French community ! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

I would like to thank again this year organizers and the ones started this in 2023. It's my favorite meeting because it's inclusive and diverse, and it brings the young motor community together in a wonderful 3 days of science, mentoring, and fun!

Paper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Great perspective on speed limit of human information processing

After the advance of getting a fax machine, today we finally got carbon copy paper to order poster printing. University Hospital of Cologne, German leader in technology!

📢 🤩Excited to share our latest paper👃🧠! Huge thanks to the amazing first author @janice-bulk.bsky.social‬ and all co-authors, especially @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social and ‪@tobiasackels.bsky.social‬ 🙌! ‬‬ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I think I should celebrate my biggest achievement of the year: I finally own a fax machine. After getting a stamp, I am a step closer to true power in German academia!

Last week to register to this amazing conference!!! Cross species cord meeting, you can't miss it!

🔊 Join us for the next #iBehave Lecture with Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber (Biozentrum Basel & FMI) @biozentrum.unibas.ch 🧠 Generating movements with brainstem circuits Host: @ggatto.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social 📍 Biocenter-Room 0.024 📧 Zoom: [email protected] #seminar

📢 #iBehave lecture by Prof. Bence Ölveczky @harvard.edu "Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution" 📅 May 9, 2025 | 15:15 Host: Tobias Rose @unibonn.bsky.social @UniklinikBonn @ggatto.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social 📧 Zoom: [email protected]

Lab news: Excited to join @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social as part of the Lise Meitner Excellence program 🚀 A new era for the (now doubled in size) lab. We keep digging into the postpartum brain and unfolding plasticity layers, you'll hear from us soon.

GattoLab has a new mascotte HugoTheCat

Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, @liamebrowne.bsky.social and Rob Brownstone.

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Graziana Gatto (@ggatto.bsky.social) studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation. Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

Thanks to Jonas Fisch and Lena Lion from the #jNWG for organizing our symposium: "Wired for Motion: Perspectives on motor control" with Irene Pallucchi @sirinlieb.bsky.social @corinnagebehart.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social

NWG2025 is over - Driving back with Mr. President in the Unikoeln van!

After a day of Neuroscience time to dance #nwg2025

Circuits for behavior: cross-species strategies for adaptation & plasticity. Don´t miss our ibehave.bsky.social -sponsored symposium on the state-dependent dynamics shaping plans, actions and predictions across time scales in flies, mice & mole rats by ggatto.bsky.social jangrundemann.bsky.social

Join us at the #iBehave #Symposium "Circuits for Behavior: Cross-species Strategies for Adaptation & Plasticity" at the NWG Meeting in Göttingen chaired by @jangrundemann.bsky.social & @ggatto.bsky.social 📅Mar 27 ⏰14:30 - 16:30 📍Lecture Hall 10 @unibonn.bsky.social @UKB @mpinb.mpg.de @dzne.science

Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

The endocytic adaptor AP-2 maintains Purkinje cell function by balancing cerebellar parallel and climbing fiber synapses: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

--- Seminar in #Neuroscience --- Functional diversity of inhibitory amygdala microcircuits 🗣 Dr. Sabine Krabbe, DZNE, Bonn 📅 Jan 27, 2025 - 16:00 Lecture Hall, Biocenter @unicologne.bsky.social zoologie.uni-koeln.de/forschung/ne... @ibehave.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social

For students: Jan 23rd, starting 8:15 a.m. Presentation of NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH GROUPS in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences @unicologne.bsky.social Lecture Hall, Biocenter, Zülpicherstr. 47B @ggatto.bsky.social @ibehave.bsky.social @henningfenselau.bsky.social

New paper from the @KononenkoLab! Happy to be part of this great work showing that less sugar is better your motor control, and autophagy makes sure you keep rocking on low sugar 😉 from molecules to behavior: tour de force!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Last week to apply for a PhD position in my lab to dissect the cortico-spinal circuits for hindlimb control in healthy and Huntington mice. Email me CV, cover letter at the latest by Jan 22.

Our new preprint on how excitatory V2a and inhibitory V1 and V2b neurons cooperate to drive scratching rhythm, with a new neuromechanical model showing how CPG perturbations affect rhythm and phase of motoneuron firing and frequency of joint oscillations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A vestibulospinal pathway for context-dependent motor control of the mouse tail https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.25.630321v1

With what can be defined as the worst Christmas mixtape, Happy Holidays from the Gatto Lab enjoying the Cologne Christmas Markets!

Favorite part of my job: monthly testing eye showers and emergency showers in the lab while my lab watches terrified, expecting a flood any minute!

This is extremely sad news. When I started my PhD in motor axon guidance, her papers were my Bible. I never had a chance to meet her i. Person, but I would have loved to discuss science with her.

Happy delayed Thanksgiving from the Gatto Lab

Cajal Course - 9 pm we are still happily recordings EMG using myomatrix and having tons of fun spike sorting 😀 So great to have these students this motivated!!!!

Our @crc1451 got renewed for four years to keep tackling key principles of motor control in health and disease, and do so across species! I feel very lucky to be embedded in this great community! As they say in Cologne Alaaaf www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

Starting to assess the development and functional heterogeneity of spinal inhibitory V1 interneurons acros species. Great preprints from the Bikoff lab biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and Sweeney lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Join us for the next #iBehave Online Seminar! 🗓️Oct. 11, 2024 🎙️Dr. Mackenzie Mathis @TrackingActions @EPFL_en 💡"Next-gen Movement Monitoring with Deep Learning & Generative AI" Hosted by @ikadow @unibonn.bsky.social @UniklinikBonn Zoom details: 📩 [email protected] #AI #neuroscience

When you are on vacation in Iceland and end up in a stable for icelandic horses, no way you won't end up talking for two hours about, gait, genetics (dmrt3), spinal dI6 circuits and gait adaptation to local environmental perturbations! #nerdonholiday

In collaboration with Silvia Daun and @MahanNGHosseini we developed a new python-based toolbox (AutoGaitA) for the automated analysis of locomotion. We applied cross-species and cross-tasks to start telling a tale of mice, of men and of flies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don't forget to register for the preFENS meeting: Motor Control across scales at ISTA. Great opportunity for trainees to present their work. Registration and abstract submission close on February 9th! #FENS2024 #ISTA

Fantastic collaboration with the KononenkoLab demonstrating how autophagy regulates glycolytic activity in Purkinje cells and ensures motor coordination.