News

Today we wished farewell to Niovi and Myrto, who concluded their Erasmus internships in the lab.

In it, we review our current knowledge of mechanisms that underlie circuit evolution. We tried to do it comprehensively going from the evolution of developmental mechanisms to the resulting circuit structural changes into the adaptive significance that these may confer. pdf

Today we celebrated Isabel and Felix’s fellowships in a “Jeux Olympiques”-appropriate way!

Congratulations Marianne!

Congratulations Félix!

Isabel Holguera joins the lab as a Marie-Curie fellow. Isabel did her post-doc in the lab of Claude Desplan at NYU studying how temporal patterning regulates connectivity.

In it, we discuss recent advances in understanding the mechanism of temporal patterning and its role in the development and evolution of neuronal diversity. pdf

Marianne’s paper from her previous lab shows that JAK-STAT signaling defines a certain number of posterior anchoring cells in the Drosophila follicular epithelium that are required to establish proper anterior-posterior polarity and are necessary for the development of the future germline. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45963-z

Félix Simon joins the lab as a post-doc following his PhD in the lab of Claude Desplan where he studied how neurons acquire their terminar features.

Today we had Begüm’s farewell dinner, whose internship in the lab is finishing in a few days!