Silke Sachse

🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg

The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together!

📍Würzrburg, Germany
🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026

Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info
#phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo

Bayern und die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de haben sich darauf verständigt, in Würzburg ein Max-Planck-Institut 🔬 aufzubauen. Unipräsident Paul Pauli: "Das ist ein starkes Zeichen für den Wissenschaftsstandort Würzburg." go.uniwue.de/mpg-wue 📷 Mindcore

The clock network of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (gray). The clock neurons of the core clock, which form the minimal circuit of the internal clock, are highlighted in color. The four dorsal clock neurons examined in the study are marked in magenta, while the remaining neurons of the core clock are marked in blue. (Photo: Nils Reinhard)

A tiny neural network is sufficient to control the daily rhythm of the fruit fly: New paper out in @pnas.org s.org by @nils-reinhard.bsky.social and @flyingclocks.bsky.social ingclocks.bsky.social. Only four specialized nerve cells drive the animals' endogenous clock.
go.uniwue.de/circadianclock

We are very proud - yesterday, Somasundar Arumugam successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Exploring innate and learned sensory behaviors in Drosophila under natural and perturbed context".
He was supervised by Prof. Silke Sachse.
Congratulations!!!!

Soma receiving his doctoral cap!

Proud soma with flowers and gifts!

Very happy that my PhD student Soma Arumugam successfully defended his thesis at the @mpi-ce.bsky.social today! Big congrats Soma! Well done!!! 🎉🥳

a group of Drosophila erecta fruit flies on a small food patch. flies on white background

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint

We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.

Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit

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I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology.
Apply here by Nov 30th!
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Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...

Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you for joining and giving an excellent talk Gabriele!

Lovely decorated cream cake especially made for the social dinner of the symposium. The logo of the symposium was printed on marzipan.

We had a great European Symposium for Insect Taste and Olfaction, ESITO, on Sardinia where I was invited to talk about evolutionary aspects. This was how spiders entered an insect meeting 😉.🕷🧪
#SilkeSachse and #MarkusKnaden for organizing it!

It was a great pleasure giving the last plenary lecture! Thank you @edrc2025.bsky.social for organizing a fantastic conference in Alicante! 🪰☀️ See you all at EDRC 2027 in Bonn!

It was an incredible week at ESITO 2025 in Sardinia filled with exciting science, vibrant discussions in a pleasant atmosphere! 🪰🐝🐜🌴🌊
Huge thanks to all participants! Hope you all have a safe trip home! See you in 2027!

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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

How ant queens are made - News Daniel Kronauer’s research on an unusual ant species illuminates the biochemistry and genetics behind complex social behavior—and potentially offers clues to the evolution of our own social brains.

New research from @danielkronauer.bsky.social's lab in @pnas.org sheds light on how a young ant’s future is determined by genetics and the environment, finding that genes not only influence size, they change what a given size means for the colony. #RockefellerScience

Thanks so much for inviting me! As a small update, I would like to add that I recently started as a professor at @uni-wuerzburg.de in the chair of neurobiology and genetics! Looking forward to #EDRC2025!

Two days left....
Abstract submission is opened until Sunday 15th June 2025
Clocks for Life - a life's journey in chronobiology
Farewell symposium Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
#GermanClockClub #Drosophila #CircadianClock @uni-wuerzburg.de @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @flyneuro.bsky.social

Walter Benjamin Programme Monday, 26 May 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. CET

#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg - Faculty of Biology | 12839249 The University of Würzburg is offering a position of a University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) (Chair of Zoology II).

Open university professor (W3) position for #BehavioralPhysiology in Würzburg, Germany @uni-wuerzburg.de: ↘️ www.nature.com/naturecareer... ↙️ Share or apply 🤗 #InsectResearch 🧪🐝🐜🦟

Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia, Italy.

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅
We are happy to announce that the registration has started for the upcoming ESITO 2025 meeting taking place September 19-24, 2025 in Sardinia, Italy.
Please register and submit your abstract here: events.gwdg.de/e/esito2025
Deadline: July 1st!

Herzlichen Glückwunsch und einen guten Start!!!

Alcohol makes male flies sexy Alcohol consumption has a direct and positive effect on the mating success of male fruit flies. This effect is due to the increased production of sex pheromones after alcohol consumption: males who ha...

Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier! New study from Ian Keesey, Bill Hansson et al. in Science Advances shows that alcohol boosts sex pheromone production in male D. melanogaster, making them more attractive to females. But too much is a turnoff!
www.ice.mpg.de/493119/PR_Ke...

Our Symposium takes place tomorrow at the Sternwarte in Göttingen. We are looking forward to exciting talks from @nawrot.bsky.social, @xenofrog.bsky.social, Lisa Scheunemann, Andre Fiala and Celine Riera. What a great start of the #NWG meeting @neurowissg.bsky.social

Thanks so much Simon!

Thank you Andrew!

Vielen Dank liebe Katrin!

Heute am #Weltfrauentag erinnern wir an #FrauenImWiderstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Sie bezahlten diesen Kampf oft mit ihrem Leben.
Mehr über ihre Biografien: https://www.frauen-im-widerstand-33-45.de

Vielen Dank Ivan! Bis bald in Göttingen!

Thank you Max!