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Interested in our work?

We are always looking for highly motivated students at all career levels (Bachelor/Master/PhD/Postdoc).
If you are interested, please inquire to discuss the current possibilities in our lab.

Latest news

• Why are neurons with longer axons more vulnerable to neurodegenerative processes? Check out our latest work together with the Parrish lab showing axon length-dependent synapse loss by glial phagocytosis.
  
• Check out our latest preprint  on peptidergic control of behavior in a conflicting sensory context.
  
• In Sep. 2024 we moved our lab from Bonn to Erlangen. Many thanks to the LIMES-Institute and particularly the Pankratz lab for generously and graciously hosting us, we had a fantastic time ! We are equally grateful to the Uniklinikum Erlangen for hosting us at CESAR with its many opportunities for interaction. 
• Our new paper on optogenetically modified dopamine receptors is online at Nature Communications. Check out the tools if you are interested in manipulating dopamine receptor-specific functions in flies in vivo!
• Welcome Shreyas! Shreyas Sakharwade recently joned our lab as a PhD student to work on genes related to neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Many thanks to the ZMNH and UKE for hosting us, it was a real pleasure! We have relocated to the LIMES-Institute in Bonn, where we are excited about the next chapter. Peter also got appointed at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
• Nusreen's cool paper on peptidergic circuit control of escape responses just came out in Current Biology.
• Find Chun's small but neat follow-up study on how microtubule dynamics and Tao kinase might regulate dendrite branching here.
• At last! Chun's nice paper on Tao kinase in sensory neuron development and function is online at Journal of Neuroscience.
• 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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