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New Director of Studies
Johannes Bohacek has been appointed as Director of Studies for the bachelor and master of “Health Sciences and Technology”
New Associate Professor of Molecular and Behavioral
The ETH Board has appointed Johannes Bohacek as Associate Professor of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at the ETH Zurich.
New Preprint from the lab on BioRxiv
In our study entitled "Analysis of behavioral flow resolves latent phenotypes" we propose a radical change to the analysis of rodent behavior in preclinical research. We provide a complete pipeline that builds on deep-learning based tracking of animal movement and enables high-powered group comparisons, behavioral fingerprinting of individual mice, and holistic comparisons of different experiments in high-dimensional space.
New Publication
Our study “The vascular gene Apold1 is dispensable for normal development but controls angiogenesis under pathological conditions” has been published in the journal Angiogenesis. A great collaboration with the team of Katrien de Bock from our department, where we uncover the crucial role of a newly identified gene (Apold1) that responds very strongly to stress and controls pathological angiogenesis.
New Preprint from the lab on BioRxiv
In this study "Noradrenaline release from the locus coeruleus shapes stress-induced hippocampal gene expression" we combine circuit neuroscience tools like optogenetics with transcriptomic analyses to identify a set of stress-induced genes that are activated by noradrenaline in the mouse brain.