Sanja Mikulovic

Abstract Guidelines & Submission | WCP 2026 Abstract Guidelines & Submission for the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry , taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, from 23-26 September.

The window to submit abstracts for WCP 26 is closing soon - just 1 month left!

This is your opportunity to present your work to a global psychiatric audience, engage with peers, and contribute to key discussions shaping the field.

👉 Submit your abstract by 23 March 2026: bit.ly/3JVlxd7

If you’re at #FENS in Barcelona and interested in social neuroscience, we’d love to meet you — join us at our event!

Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thread! 👇🏻

Distinct roles for MNK1 and MNK2 in social and cognitive behavior through kinase-specific regulation of the synaptic proteome and phosphoproteome - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Distinct roles for MNK1 and MNK2 in social and cognitive behavior through kinase-specific regulation of the synaptic proteome and phosphoproteome

Happy to share the first paper from the lab, now out in Molecular Psychiatry! This was really a collaborative effort from a fantastic team, including key contributions from @dariabunina.bsky.social and @landthalerm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Big congrats, Hanna and the team!

My lab is moving to Vienna to kick off #ERC StG project uncovering the neural mechanisms of prosocial behaviour in health and disease.🧠We’re excited to join the vibrant community at @meduniwien.ac.at! PhD & postdoc positions will be opening soon, reach out if you’d like to join us on this journey!

In line with many good news these days 🌟 I’m happy to share that I’ve accepted the professorship in Neuronal Circuits for Social Behaviour and Learning at @meduniwien.ac.at! 🎉

This work was supported by the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de Best Minds Award, the @humboldt-foundation.de, and the German Center for Mental Health. We are grateful for their generous support!

Fantastic PhD students Anna Agafonova, Ada Braun, along with many other great lab members and collaborators, contributed to this truly team-driven project!

A huge shoutout to first author @c0rr34m.bsky.social, the culmination of his outstanding three years as a postdoc in my lab. His dedication and creativity were exceptional, and I couldn’t be prouder!

Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice dos Santos Correa et al. show that exposure to a stressful context promotes the acquisition of rescue behavior in mice and that the dorsal hippocampus is required for this learning. Calcium imaging re...

Thrilled to share that our first study on the hippocampus’ role in helping behavior in mice is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! This work was driven by an amazing team in my lab, and marks an important milestone for more exciting studies to come!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Illustration mit zwei Feldern. Die linke Tafel auf hellblauem Hintergrund zeigt eine vertikal geteilte Figur innerhalb eines weißen Kreises: die linke Hälfte trägt einen weißen Laborkittel und hält eine Flasche mit rosa Flüssigkeit, die rechte Hälfte trägt ein grünes Hemd und blaue Jeans und hält ein Megaphon; am Rand des Kreises steht "wissen" und "handeln". Das rechte Feld ist einfarbig rot mit weißem Text "JUNGE AKADEMIE MAGAZIN #32".

📣Das JAM #32 ist da! Das aktuelle Postermagazin widmet sich der gesellschaftlichen Rolle von #Wissenschaft und dem Spannungsfeld zwischen "wissen – handeln". U.a. mit @sklosterkamp.bsky.social, @nadinemengis.bsky.social und @fmichl.bsky.social
Hier bestellen: www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...

The new Cajal Center is opening 8 CSIC permanent research positions (CT, IC & PF levels) via national competitive exams. We welcome candidates eager to shape an ambitious 🧠 research hub in Spain.
🔗 sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/con... 📣
#Neuroscience #CNC #CSIC #ScienceJobs 👇🏼

New preprint from the lab! 🚀
We find that hippocampal OLM interneurons provide a circuit-level inhibitory feedback signal that dynamically controls when and where behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity can occur.
Feedback welcome!

Call for Symposia: Göttingen Meeting 2027
Time to take the opportunity and help to shape the Scientific Program 2027 by submitting your proposal until:

17 February 2026

Further information can be found here: web.nwg-info.de/de/conferenc...

Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning - Nature Neuroscience Benoit, Ganea et al. show that changes in axon initial segment (AIS) length in the prefrontal cortex of mice accompany fear learning and extinction, revealing AIS plasticity as a key feature of neuron...

New study on axon initial segment plasticity by Chloé Benoit and Dan Ganea. Using a deep brain imaging approach, we find that AIS length changes dynamically during associative learning. Thank you to the wonderful team and collaborators who made this work possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very much agree!👇

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Philipp! Absolut verdient!

Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen

🧠✨ Join me at #SfN2025 for a journey across memory space from my early days with Hodgkin-Huxley to today’s neural manifolds, from cell types to complexity. @sfn.org Thanks to Rebecca Piskorowski for joining me!
📍MTE07.01 | Nov 17 | 1:00 PM | SDCC Rm 5B

Acetylcholine reflects uncertainty during hidden state inference To act adaptively, animals must infer features of the environment that cannot be observed directly, such as which option is currently rewarding, or which context they are in. These internal estimates,...

Congrats to Ella for her new paper! She asked a really interesting question about how the brain represents uncertainty during hidden state inference, and in a lovely crossover with theoretical work, she shows that in mice, acetylcholine dynamics play a crucial role. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!

Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.

Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Great work! Congrats, Sabine and the team!

Heterogeneous plasticity of amygdala interneurons in associative learning and extinction - Nature Communications In this study, the authors uncover how diverse inhibitory interneurons in the amygdala flexibly contribute to fear and safety learning, revealing a key role for inhibition in emotional memory and adap...

Out now: Favila, Capece Marsico et al. 2025, Nature Communications: Using longitudinal deep-brain imaging, we report that amygdala interneurons exhibit complex and heterogeneous plasticity during associative learning, at both the single-cell and population level.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heute Abend diskutieren wir im #Futurium Berlin über die Zukunft der Wissenschafskommunikation - mit Utopiemobil!

Undergrad interested in 🧠 ? Join a webinar about our @stockholm-uni.bsky.social MSc program in Neurochemistry w/ Molecular Neurobiology (where I teach about circuits!) Wed Nov 19, 3 pm (start autumn 2026).
stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/65851250648
Also:
utbildning.su.se/english/educ...
Pls repost!

High-resolution insights from the deep brain Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com

🧠What do neuroscientists think of DeepEn's holographic microendoscope?
How can they use it to study learning and memory processes?
Can it enable voltage imaging in deep brain structures to study processes behind neuronal firing?

⭐ Check the Nature’s article:
www.nature.com/articles/d42...

Amazing news! Huge congrats, Julia!