DANDRITE Affiliated Researcher, Christian Vægter, has received a grant that supports his research in chronic nerve pain.

Anna Barta will work on fruit fly project in Duda Kvitsiani’s lab. Anna will test how fruit flies forage for probabilistic rewards under different metabolic states. For this Anna will use newly developed natural reward delivery system in combination with measurements of metabolic state in individual animals. Anna’s work will be a collaboration between Kvitsiani and Phillipsborn lab and will closely interact with people from both groups.

Kristoffer recently returned to the group from a year in Morris’ lab in Edinburgh, where he did in vivo studies of hippocampus-dependent memory in rats. As visiting student at DANDRITE he will be continuing working with behavior studies in animals. The projects are going to explore mechanism of novelty-enhanced hippocampus-dependent spatial memory involved in the behavioral tagging.

The title of the article is: Spatiotemporally Asymmetric Excitation Supports Mammalian Retinal Motion Sensitivity”. Find it here.