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+  * **NEW paper:** Congrats to Fabian for making it on the cover and [[https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/20/etwij45202025|special feature]] of the Journal of Neuroscience with our whole-body jellyfish story uncovering their mechanism for efficient swimming. Synchronization during spatial spread and a clever delay in muscle cell ignition that results in four waves spreading in parallel, demonstrating optimal efficiency in the coupled fluid-mechanical simulation: [[https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1370-24.2025|Journal of Neuroscience]] (May 2025).\\
-  * **NEW paper:** Paul's work on how cooperative ion channels enable persistent firing and thus a memory on the order of seconds has appeared in eLife. We really enjoyed the collaboration with the Draguhn lab in Heidelberg (February 2020).
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+  * **NEW paper:** Congrats to Mahraz for her second paper! It shows how to obtain deterministic single-cell bursting without slow ionic conductances when taking ion concentration dynamics into account. You can check it out here: [[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011751|PLoS Computational Biology]] (August 2024).\\
+  * **NEW paper:** Our study on how cellular morphology impacts network synchronization has been published in [[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011874|PLoS Computational Biology]]! Congrats, Robert! (March 2024).\\
+  * **NEW paper:** Liz’ first paper (and also first for the lab in neuromorphic computing) has come out. Check out [[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4386/ad2afc/meta|“ Qualitative switches in single-neuron spike dynamics on neuromorphic hardware“]] to see how to produce splayed-out network states on neuromorphic chips (February 2024).\\
+  * **Prize for the best dissertation:** Paul was awarded the Humboldt Prize for the best dissertation. The first to the ITB in 20 years. Congrats, Paul! (November 2023).\\
+  * **Award:** Susanne was awarded the Caroline von Humboldt Professorship 2024. Big honour. (October 2023).\\
+  * **NEW paper:** Congrats on Mahraz' first paper, in collaboration with the lab of Ulf Strauss at Charite, where we demonstrate a reverse operational mode of KCC2 and its role for potassium signalling, published in [[https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)00945-2|Cell Reports]] (August 2023).
+  * **NEW paper in Nature:** Single neuron dynamics shape network behaviour: In Drosophila, a motonetwork exploits action potential generation close to the SNL point in order to produce desynchronised network spay states via electrical coupling, as we show in our [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06099-0|publication in Nature]] in collaboration with our wonderful experimental partners in Mainz (June 2023).
+  * **Science Slam Award:** Well done, Paul, for securing the first prize for the science rap at the "Long Night of the Sciences 2023" at the Bernstein Center Berlin (June 2023).\\
+  * **Ph.D. Defense:** Paul has defended his PhD on the topic of ion channel cooperativity and the development of the capacitance clamp protocol. Congratulations, Dr. Pfeiffer! (Oktober 2022).\\
+  * **Interdisciplinary symposium on September 12th 2022:** Join us for the research symposium [[https://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-interdisciplinary-approaches-in-the-neurosciences-from-mitochondria-to-behaviour-and-neuromorphic-engineering|"Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Neurosciences: From Mitochondria to Behaviour and Neuromorphic Engineering"]] in the lovely Leibniz Hall of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, right on the day before the start of the Bernstein Conference workshops. Details on the exciting program and registration can be found when following the title link above or in our [[https://www.neuron-science.de/events|events section]]. Participation is free, yet registration is mandatory and seats are limited (September 2022).
+  * **Public event in German:** On the evening of Sunday September 11th 2022, three wonderful colleagues will provide fascinating insights into neural processing for non-specialists, from the war among ants to the happiness of understanding fellow human beings. We organise this event in collaboration with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience and the BMBF. For further details and registration see the Academy's website [[https://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-einblicke-ins-denken-von-nervenzellen-orientierungssinn-und-dem-glueck-andere-zu-verstehen|"Einblicke ins Denken: Von Nervenzellen, Orientierungssinn und dem Glück, andere zu verstehen"]] (September 2022).
+  * **NEW paper:** We are very proud of our [[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31195-6|Nature Communications paper]] showing how action potential dynamics impact network activity and produce synchronized or splayed-out states - featuring Janina as first author and a fruitful collaboration with the Schmitzlab. Beware of homoclinic spikes! (August 2022).
+  * **NEW paper:** Congratulation to Paul on his [[https://elifesciences.org/articles/75517|eLife paper]] showing how the dynamic clamp technique can be used to artificially modify membrane capacitance - a fruitful experiment-theory collaboration with the lab of Imre Vida (April 2022).
+  * **Invited Cosyne Talk:** Susanne presented our results on homoclinic spiking and its influence on network behaviour at a lovely Cosyne 2022 conference in Lisbon. A video of the presentation can be found [[ https://youtu.be/m4w62iPv6yc|online]]. Move to session 5, starting at 2h 24min 40sec (March 2022).
+  * **NEW paper:** If you want to learn more about how to use Pareto theory for understanding neural optimisation, check out our [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438821000994|paper]] co-authored by Fabian, Philipp, and Jan-Hendrik in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Special congratulations to Philipp for getting us on the cover! You can also find the paper on [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01395|arXiv]] (October 2021).
+  * **NEW paper:** Our [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438821000805|paper]] on neural homeostasis beyond firing rates, first-authored by Nelson, has come out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Also to be found on [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14870|arXiv]] (August 2021).
+  * **NEW paper:** Our [[https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/25/eabg4693|joint paper]] with the Geiger and Vida labs has appeared in Science Advances. Paul's and Moritz's contribution shows that a polarised morphology of interneurons in the presubiculum can benefit head direction tuning (June 2021).
+  * **NEW paper:** Susana's [[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008510|new paper]] in collaboration with Allan Gulledge (US) demonstrates that elevated levels of extracellular potassium switch neurons to homoclinic spike generation - a dynamical type that favours synchronisation of inhibitory networks (June 2021).
+   * **Einstein Foundation:** Susanne receives an [[https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/medien/pressemitteilungen/2021/07052021-0521/|Einstein professorship]]  (May 2021).
+  * **NEW paper:** Our [[https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.012407|new paper]] (joint work of Jan-Hendrik, Janina, and Susana in Phys Rev E) characterises firing statistics in the bistable regime of homoclinic spikers, moving us a step closer towards detecting these action potentials in the brain (January 2021).
+  * **Workshop at the Bernstein Conference:** Our workshop [[https://www.bernstein-network.de/en/bernstein-conference/2020/satellite-workshops-tba/understanding-computations-of-basal-nervous-systems-from-paramecium-to-jellyfish|"Understanding Computations of Basal Nervous Systems: From Paramecium to Jellyfish"]], organised by Fabian and Jan-Hendrik, will take place at the online Bernstein Conference 2020 (on September 29th 2020).
+  * **NEW paper:** Pia's study highlighting the importance of sodium channels and their voltage dependence for heart arrhythmias was accepted in [[https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236949|PLoS ONE]] (July 2020).
+  * **Ethics Council:** Susanne has been appointed to the German Ethics Council, where she now serves as vice chair (May 2020).
+  * **NEW paper:** Paul's work on how cooperative ion channels enable persistent firing and thus a memory on the order of seconds has appeared in [[https://elifesciences.org/articles/49974|eLife]]. We really enjoyed the collaboration with the Draguhn lab in Heidelberg (February 2020).
   * **ERC Consolidator Grant:** We are extremely happy that our ERC Consolidator project //ANewSpike// has been approved and look forward to gaining insights about homoclinic action potentials and their relevance in the brain (December 2019).