24.02.2025
We are hiring!
We are looking for a postdoc interested in neuroimaging of sleep-dependent memory consolidation! For more information, please view our job ad.
25.01.2025
Outreach: Lab tour for the State Government of Baden-Württemberg
We are honored to host federal minister Winfried Kretschmann and his team during his visit to the Max Planck Campus and give practical insights into our work on sleep and memory consolidation.
14.01.2025
The lab gets new equipment Pt.2!
Today we once more welcomed the team from MES Forschungssysteme, this time for setting up our new MRI-compatible EEG systems, featuring 64 channels and additional carbon-wire loops for MR artifact correction. Thank you for this very productive day!
07.01.2024
Welcome Sebastian!
Today Sebastian Müller starts his postdoctoral position in our lab! With a background in MR Physics he will support us in all things sequence development.
11.12.2024
Thananya presents her work!
Thananya today successfully presented her lab rotation work on decoding of rehearsal induced neocortical memory representations. We are very happy that she will continue working with us on this topic also for her master thesis!
05.12.2024
The lab in Leuven @KU Leuven
Svenja B is visiting the Department of Movement Sciences at KU Leuven and will be giving a talk on Tracing human memory formation with multimodal MRI.
06.12.2024
The lab in Freiburg @International Sleep Replay Workshop
Lena is joining the local hub hosted by the IMaC Lab (PI Monika Schönauer) for this year’s virtual edition of the ISRW!
01.12.2024
Welcome Mohamed!
Today is Mohamed Alnokrashy’s first day as a master thesis student in our lab! Mohamed is coming to us from his Neuroscience Master in Oldenburg and will be working on neural dynamics of repeated and single learning across cortical and hippocampal networks
08.11.2024
Inauguration of the sleep labs!
Today we celebrate the opening of our new Max Planck Research Facility for Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience with a symposium! Thanks to the speakers Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster, Prof. Monika Schönauer and Dr. Christine Blume and co-host Prof. Manuel Spitschan for an amazing afternoon!
15.10.2024
Welcome Sara-Estelle!
We are very happy that Sara-Estelle Lindwein is joining us from her master’s program in Neurocognitive Psychology at LMU Munich to conduct her master thesis! She will focus on detecting memory signatures of basic visual features with fMRI representational similarity analysis.
08.10.2024
Welcome Thananya!
Today we welcome Thananya Charoenpattarawut in our lab! Thananya is joining us for a lab rotation during her master at the Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience in Tübingen and will investigate reactivation-induced rapid memory consolidation in wakefulness and sleep.
27.09.2024
Welcome Melisa!
We are welcoming our newest research assistant Melisa Özdemir to our lab today! Melisa will be helping our PhD student Lena with EEG and sleep analysis.
25.09.2024
The lab in Sevilla @SleepEurope 2024
Svenja B will be presenting in the oral session on Sleep & Neural Dynamics on Functional activity of the human locus coeruleus during sleep.
23.09.2024
The lab @CaCTüs Scientific Symposium
Tedd presents the work of his summer internship in our lab, in which he focused on developing a new approach for testing the quality of associative memories.
09.09.2024
The lab in Innsbruck @ LC Meeting 2024
Svenja B is giving a talk on: “Imaging human locus coeruleus activity during sleep with EEG-fMRI” at the 2024 edition of the LC Meeting.
15.08.2024
Welcome Maximilian!
The lab continues to grow! Today is the first day for our second research assistant Maximilian Müller. We are thrilled to have Maximilian join us and assist our PhD Students.
01.08.2024
The lab gets new equipment 🥳
Today, we received our new portable LiveAmp EEG system, allowing our participants to spend their nights in their own beds. Thanks to Baris and Anirudh from MES Forschungssysteme GmbH for a perfect demonstration! We look forward to using our new equipment soon!
10.-12.07.2024
The lab learns about sleep scoring 💤
Lena spent three immersive days at East Anglia University in Norwich, UK, mastering the art of sleep scoring. Upon returning to Tübingen, Lena shared her knowledge and insights with the lab, offering us a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in sleep scoring.
01.07.2024
Welcome Tedd!
Tedd Denis joins our lab for three months as part of the Computation & Cognition Tübingen Summer Internship (CaCTüS) offered by the Max Planck Institutes for Biological Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, gaining insights into sleep and memory research. We are happy to welcome Tedd to Tübingen!
25.06.2024
The lab in Vienna @ FENS 2024
Svenja K is presenting her work on rapid concept formation in the neocortex at FENS 2024 in Vienna.
13.06.2024
The lab in Pisa @ Pisa Sleep Award
Svenja B is speaking about memory, sleep, and falling asleep at this year’s Pisa Sleep Award Symposium. Luckily, there was some time to explore Pisa as well. Otherwise the touristic photo of the leaning tower would have missed!
31.05.2024
The lab in Hamburg @ Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG 2024)
Svenja K presents her poster: “Rapid formation of new visual concepts in early visual cortex assessed with multimodal MRI” at the Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG) conference and Lena joins us at least for the social evening!
15.05.2024
Welcome Paul!
Today is the first day for our new research assistant Paul Fiedler. We are excited to have Paul join us to assist our PhD Students with their projects.
13.05.2024
Outreach: Svenja B participates in Tübingen’s Pint of Science
As part of Pint of Science’s Tübingen edition, Svenja B talks about the science of falling asleep.
12.05.2024
Outreach: Talk on the neuroscience of compassion
Svenja B is giving a talk about the role of higher association cortex for compassion on the occasion of Vesakh at Lindenmuseum Stuttgart, together with Dr. Michael Erb from the University Hospital Tübingen.
01.04.2024
Welcome Lena!
Today we welcome our third PhD student to the lab! We are very happy that Lena Schroeder conducts her PhD project with us. Lena’s project will research how rehearsal affects memory compared to single-shot learning.
25.01.2024
Congrats Manfredi!
Manfredi has been awarded a FENS and IBRO-PERC stipend for attending the NENS school programme „Diffusion MR Imaging: from physics to brain networks“ organised by the Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School in Lausanne.
2023
11.12.2023
Winter symposium Sleep & Memory Consolidation @ MPI Kyb
We are continuing our yearly tradition together with the IMaC lab, this time in beautiful Tübingen. After a morning of project updates, we are very happy to welcome Professor Sara Mednick for her talk on „How does the sleeping brain construct memories?“.
24.11.2023
Institute for Medical Psychology retreat @ Lautenbachhof, Bad Teinach
The lab is off to the yearly institute’s retreat to talk all things sleep and memory research!
16.10.2023
Retreat MPI Kyb Magnetic Resonance Centre @ Kloster Obermarchtal
Svenjas K and B are excited to join the yearly MRC retreat to learn about new developments in ultra-high field imaging at our institute!
15.11.2023
Welcome Marius & Manfredi!
Today is the first day for two new lab members! We are very happy that Manfredi Alberti and Marius Kreis are conducting their PhD projects with us, focusing on detecting neocortical engrams with multimodal MRI.
07.07.2023
Welcome talk @ MPI Kyb
Svenja B gives her welcome talk at the internal seminar of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, outlining the current and future research of the Brain States for Plasticity lab!
23.06.2023
Talk @ ÖGSM/ASRA 2023 in Linz
Svenja B gives a talk on sleep and problem solving as part of the symposium „Sleep, Learning and Creativity“ organized by Kerstin Hödlmoser.
17.06.2023
Poster prize @ Replay@CUBRIC-23!
Congrats Florentine! She won the poster prize at CUBRIC’s third international conference on memory replay in Cardiff with her poster on „Information Processing in the Wake-Sleep Transition with Concurrent EEG-fMRI“.
07.-10.06.2023
The lab @ PuG 2023 in Tübingen
Home game for our lab at this year’s conference „Psychologie und Gehirn“ of the German Psychological Society, Biopsychology Section in Tübingen. On Wednesday, Svenja B is part of a panel discussion on good working conditions for science. On Thursday, Svenja B is chairing a symposium on „Brain State-Dependent Information Processing: Understanding the Link between Memory Consolidation, Reactivation and Sleep“ together with Niels Niethard, in which Florentine is sharing her research on information processing in the wake-sleep transition. Finally, Svenja K will present her work on „Specialized Memory Subsystems for Detailed and Conceptual Information Assessed with Multimodal MRI“ in Philipp Paulus‘ & Heidrun Schultz‘ symposium on internal representations of our environment on Friday.
26.-30.04.2023
Svenja K @ LEARNMEM 2023
Svenja K is travelling to the long-awaited International Conference on Learning and Memory in Huntington Beach, where she will present her combined functional and diffusion MRI data on specialized memory subsystems for episodic and semantic memory.
05.04.2023
New review paper out in Neuron!
Svenja B is lead author of a review on „Sleep – A brain state serving systems memory consolidation“ which was just published in Neuron as part of a special issue on neural dynamics and cognitive function. Check it out here!
11.03.2023
New preprint!
The lab has published a new preprint on biorXiv „Memory systems integration in sleep complements rapid systems consolidation in wakefulness“.
09.-12.02.2023
Florentine @ Wintersymposium „Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness“
Florentine is enjoying the snow and the 5th Wintersymposium on „Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness“ in Werfenweng, Austria together with the rest of the gaislab.