Latest news

At last, Chun's paper on Tao kinase in sensory neuron development and function is accepted at Journal of Neuroscience and will be online in a few days. Stay tuned!

Federico's paper on regulation of synaptic growth and connectivity by Tao kinase is online at Nature Communications. Check it out, it is a really cool story! And Federico successfully defended his Ph.D. in 2019. Congratulations!

Nina's paper on substrate-driven space-filling growth of dendrites is online at Cell Reports and made the cover! Congratulations and thanks to all contributors!

Our detailed protocols for mechano- and thermonociception in Drosophila larvae are out and freely available at Bio-Protocol.

Check out our Nature Neuroscience paper on modality-specific encoding of nociceptive behavior in Drosophila. Congrats to Chun, Meike, Nina, Bettina, Denan and Federico for the fantastic lab-wide effort and work! And thanks to the UKE for making it the paper of the month August 2017!

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