Björn BrembsNov 13

Motor learning mechanisms at #SfN25

Due to political developments, the US have become a much less welcoming and hence dramatically less attractive place for academic conferences. This year, nobody from our research group was interested in attending our otherwise regular meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Thus, it will be only me who will attend and present our only poster: On this poster, we describe how we discovered that an important site of plasticity in motor learning are motor neurons. The type of motor […]

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2025/11/motor-learning-mechanisms-at-sfn25/

Björn BrembsOct 1, 2024

Motor learning at #SfN24

It has been almost 10 years now that we have come to the realization that a particular type of our operant experiments can be classified as motor learning. In such "operant self-learning" experiments, the animal learns about the consequences of its own behavior and adjusts future behavior accordingly. In this experiment, a tethered fly, flying stationarily in an otherwise featureless environment, is trained to avoid/prefer one of two turning directions. The fly is tethered to a torque […]

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/10/motor-learning-at-sfn24/

Javier Díaz-NidoFeb 6, 2023

Features That May Make Motor Neurons Vulnerable to ALS

Motor neurons are distinguished by a set of genes that may enable the large size of the motor neuron cell body and lengthy axon, but also underlie their vulnerability to degeneration. Their molecular profile was defined by genes involved in cytoskeletal structure, which gives the cell shape and organizes the structures within; neurofilament genes related to cell size; and genes linked to the onset of ALS.

#Neuroscience #SpinalCord #Neuron #Motorneuron #MotorneuronDisease #ALS #NeurodegenerativeDiseases #NeurologicalDiseases #Transcriptomics

https://neurosciencenews.com/als-motor-neurons-genetics-22436/

Features That May Make Motor Neurons Vulnerable to ALS - Neuroscience News

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Stephan Lange LabDec 20, 2022

We are looking for a motivated #PhD #student for our group @AarhusUni to explore the role of cullin-3 for #muscle and #motorneuron development as well as the etiology of #neuromuscular diseases.

Contact me for more information!
http://slangelab.org

Deadline: 15 Feb. 2023

Application information:
https://phd.health.au.dk/application/opencalls/exploring-the-role-of-cullin-3-for-muscle-and-motor-neuron-development-as-well-as-the-etiology-of-neuromuscular-myopathies

Stephan Lange - Research Lab