Postdoc Ana Oliveira from Keisuke Yonehara's group has been awarded both a MOBILEX mobility grant from the Danich Council for Independent Research, and a Lundbeck Foundation Postdoc Fellowship from the Lundbeck Foundation, which will fund her research for 2+1 years on "Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visually-guided behaviors".

DANDRITE Group Leader Sadegh Nabavi is awarded an ERC Starting Grant of EUR 1.5 million for research into memory formation to answer the fundamental questions on why some memories last and some are soon lost.

DANDRITE's five newly recruited young Group leaders and director Poul Nissen are interviewed in this feature on Denmark regarding talent attraction, collaborations, and conducting research in general. The article was published in NatureJobs in November 2015.

AIAS is pleased to announce that the third Call for AIAS-COFUND Marie Curie Fellowships has just opened this week for talented researchers from around the world. Read more here.

Hoger Amin started as research assistant per 1. November 2015 in Anne von Philipborn's group. He will study the role of GABA-mediated inhibitory signaling for control of motor output patterns and sequential execution of behavior steps.

Juliane Martin started as PhD student in Duda Kvitsiani’s group per 1 November 2015. She will be studying neural circuits subserving foraging decisions in mice by combining optogenetics with electrophysiology in freely behaving animals. In her studies, she will record specific cell-types from mouse prefrontal cortex as well as from subcortical structures directly involved in motor control. The collected data will be used to gain mechanistic insights into how information is processed in brain circuits while animals are engaged in reward foraging behaviors.

Caroline Neumann started as PhD student in Poul Nissen's group per 1. November 2015. Caroline is studying the substrate specificity of MhsT, a bacterial homologue of the human GABA transporter GAT1 and non-polar amino acid transporters SLC6A18 and SLC6A19, by structure determination of various protein-substrate complexes and their validation by functional studies of mutant forms of MhsT. Later she will focus on structural investigations of the eukaryotic Na+-K+-2Cl- co-transporter NKCC1 and GAT1.