@modolfor

Research Unit/ FORschungsgruppe 5424, Modulation in olfaction: How recurrent circuits govern state-dependent behaviour. #olfaction #neuromodulation #DFG

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Joined June 2023
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🐸 Postdoc Position (m/f/d) in Neurobiology! The project focuses on how smell shapes feeding behavior in poison frogs and is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Jennifer Stynoski (Costa Rica). 🌎. For more information and to apply, use this link. uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/…
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🤩I’m beyond excited to finally share our paper! 🎉 It’s been a long journey and a true team effort. Congratulations to our outstanding first authors, @LCReimon and Ayden Gouveia, and to all of the co-authors who made this possible 🙌! nature.com/articles/s42255-0…

Fat sensory cues in early life program central response to food and obesity

Nature Metabolism - Non-nutritive sensory components of high-fat diet, such as bacon flavour, are sufficient to impair metabolic health in offspring in mice.

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Thrilled our discovery of a novel sensory pathway controlling satiety in mice is featured in the General-Anzeiger @gabonn 🐭👃🍽️! 👇 Kölner Studie: Geruch macht satt (zumindest Mäuse) ga.de/news/wissen-und-bildun…

Mäuse schnuppern an Grapefruits und haben dann keinen Hunger mehr: Wie praktisch: Geruch kann satt...

Kölner Wissenschaftler finden einen überraschenden Auslöser für Sättigungsgefühl – nämlich das Riechen. Ein neuer Weg zum Schlankwerden? Leider funktioniert es bis jetzt nur bei Mäusen.

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Grateful to @maxplanckpress for featuring our recent paper in their amazing new video! 🎥🌟 Thank you for the wonderful spotlight on our work! 🙌😄
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Yummy, das riecht gut! 🥘 Essensduft aktiviert bestimmte Nervenzellen in #Gehirn, die das Hungergefühl verringern. Deshalb haben wir nach dem Kochen, oft keinen #Appetit mehr. Der erste #Heißhunger ist verflogen: youtu.be/HTPll7fLl3c #Ernährung @DoktorWhatson

Sättigungsgefühl durch Gerüche: Kann man sich satt riechen und Heißhunger einfach wegriechen?

Der Geruch von Nahrung aktiviert bei Mäusen bestimmte Nervenzellen ...

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Ever wondered how smell affects how you eat? 👃🍽️ Check out this interview (in German) with my fantastic PhD student @_janice_bulk_ about our latest paper! 🧠📄 #ProudPI #Olfaction #Feeding #Neuroscience 👇 swr.de/leben/gesundheit/essv…

Geruch von Essen kann Sättigung auslösen – neue Erkenntnisse

Essverhalten: Schon der Geruch von Essen kann das Sättigungsgefühl auslösen – zeigen Forschende am Max-Planck-Institut. Bei Übergewicht scheint dieser Mechanismus gestört zu sein.

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📢 🤩Excited to share our latest paper on a #Sensory circuit that limits #Feeding before the first bite👃🧠! Huge thanks to the amazing first author @JaniceBulk and all co-authors, especially @AndreasTSchafer and @tobiasackels 🙌! nature.com/articles/s42255-0…

A food-sensitive olfactory circuit drives anticipatory satiety

Nature Metabolism - The authors describe a sensory circuit involving the medial septum (MS), where MS glutamatergic neurons integrate food odours to prime satiety and regulate nutrient intake.

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Heading to #NWG2025 Goettingen. Tomorrow, Wednesday, check out the poster from my PhD student Hari Narayanan! @modolfor We find that olfactory navigation is modulated by hunger and social context in fly larvae.
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A @ScienceAdvances paper from @leslievosshall's lab finds that mosquitoes who have olfactory sensory loss maintain the overall effectiveness of their host-seeking behavior by up-regulating attraction to human skin temperature: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans

Mosquitoes enhance sensitivity to human body heat by a sensory compensation mechanism when their sense of smell is disrupted.

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Dear all, please advertise the International Chemical Ecology course to your students! It will run from June 23 to July 4 2025 at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. Please find more infos at events.gwdg.de/e/ice2025 Cheers, Markus

ICE 2025 International Chemical Ecology Course

ICE 2025 PhD Course International Chemical Ecology Course Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany June 23 - July 4, 2025 In collaboration with Penn State University, USA and SLU,...

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Dreaming of cream cakes?🍰Yearning for pizza?😋🍕If you just had lunch & find yourself reaching for the cookies, rest assured: hunger is more than just willpower—it starts in the #brain!➡️Research by our colleagues @MPI_Metabolism mpg.de/23723606/hunger-start… #WorldDiabetesDay

Hunger - it’s all in the mind!

Understanding the brain's role in hunger signals and metabolism reveals insights into obesity and dietary habits.

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Dendritic Integration Symposium next Tuesday Dec 10th. Online. Free. Great speakers !
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Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Find us on the blue side: @modolfor.bsky.social
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🎉 Attention PhD candidates! 🎉 Exciting news — the DFG is launching a new graduate school in Leipzig, offering 40 PhD positions in the fields of neuroscience, biology, and medicine. Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your research career! More details will follow! 🌟🧠
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Big thanks to @zaknight, @danamsmall, @KaraLMarshall, and @HHMIJanelia for an incredible meeting on the sensory biology of ingestion! 🍔🧠👃🏼👅Inspiring, insightful, and a true highlight🤩! Hoping this is the first of many🤞🏼! #feeding #sensorybiology
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Thank you to everyone who joined us this week @HHMIJanelia for a unique and multidisciplinary meeting on the sensory biology of ingestion!
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Pleased to share our 'News and Views' with @cgardanaz on an exciting new candidate drug for combating obesity💊🍔! Grateful to @NatureNV for this great opportunity 😊. Congratulations to lead author @Z_GerhartHines and the entire team on this outstanding work 👏!
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The discovery of a pathway that controls appetite and calorie burning has led to the development of a drug that modulates both by targeting one receptor, offering a promising strategy for weight loss and improved metabolic health go.nature.com/3Z5rtoW

Two for one: candidate obesity drug boosts energy use and curbs calorie intake

Nature - Activating the neurokinin 2 receptor induces weight loss in animals.

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Body and brain must communicate to adapt behavior efficiently. Using the fly, we discover a bidirectional pathway between the fat body and the brain and show that fat body-produced dopamine changes food preference.
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A Bidirectional Brain-Fat Body Axis for Pathogen Avoidance biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Our latest preprint is live. Check out our study on how calcium-activated chloride channels sparsen peripheral inputs to the olfactory system. A group effort from the entire lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Amplification of olfactory transduction currents implements sparse stimulus encoding

Sensory systems must perform the dual and opposing tasks of being sensitive to weak stimuli while also maintaining information content in dense and variable sensory landscapes. This occurs in the...

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Curious about sister mitral and tufted cells in the olfactory bulb? Curious about imaging neuronal tissue with X-ray? Curious about combining X-ray with in vivo 2-photon? Come check out our poster! (E37, 341.09) #SfN24
Carles Bosch@Trickymons8 Oct 2024
Hi @SfNtweets, Neurons of the same olfactory circuit in the mammalian brain share firing properties while showing individual traits. More about it today PM, poster E37 (PSTR341.09). @YuxinZhang97 @APacureanu @AndreasTSchafer @TheCrick @esrfsynchrotron @psich_en #SfN24
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