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Graziana Gatto

@ggatto.bsky.social
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Prof. of Neurobiology of Motor Control at University Hospital of Cologne, Sensorimotor Adaptation Lab www.gattolab.com Investigating spinal cord circuits, the rest of the CNS is just too overrated.

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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New PNAS paper from our lab! 🪰🐭👩‍🦰 We developed a toolbox AutoGaitA to compare locomotion across species, revealing conserved velocity gradients and aging effects despite divergent strategies for propulsion. A step toward understanding conserved principles of motor control. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Constanze Lenschow @constanze-lenschow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you would like to support my journey, whether through a donation or simply by sharing my GoFundMe page, it would mean more than words can say. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Constanze ❤️ gofund.me/6c3dbadf2
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Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam, organized by Banas Araujo
It’s incredibly hard to watch someone you love fight the batt… Banas Araujo braucht deine Unterstützung für Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam
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Julia Kaiser, PhD @jkaiser87.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Unfortunately this is true, BNI is shutting down very suddenly and soon. We’re still sorting through the fallout, but many incredibly talented postdocs and technicians are taking a huge hit to their careers because of this. If you know of openings, even short term, I’d be happy to circulate them.
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The Brain Prize @brainprize.org · 05/03/2026
Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Karolinska Institutet HHMI #Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
3rd pre-FENS Motor Symposium "The Dynamics of Motor Control: Circuit Interactions in Health and Disease" on July 5th 2026 at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. Registration and abstract submission are open NOW until March 1st motor-control-satellite-2026.umh.es
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Motor Control Satellite FENS 2026 – Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
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Sabine Krabbe @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🚨 Last chance to apply for participation for BonnBrain 2026! 🚨 We have very few slots left (attending with or without presentation) and will select the last participants early next week. Apply before December 15th to be considered! bonnbrain.de
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Sabine Krabbe @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Join us for BonnBrain 2026! The official deadline for abstract submission is December 15th, but we only have a few slots left and might be sold out before the deadline. Apply quickly 👉 bonnbrain.de to be considered by our Scientific Committee!
Flyer for the BonnBrain conference: 

Keynote lectures: Cori Bargmann, Edvard Moser, Maude Baldwin, Rosa Paolicelli, Zachary Knight

Invited speakers: Inna Slutsky, Abhilasha Joshih, Dmitriy Aronov, Ruben
Portugues, Laura Busse, Kishore Kuchibhotla, Long-Jun Wu, Rune Enger,
Ania Majewska, Sarah Melzer, Carolina Rezaval, Josh Dudman

Specials: Selected talks, young investigator symposium, posters,
career session with Leonie Welberg from Nature Neuroscience & more
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Sabine Krabbe @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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...
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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...
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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We're excited to announce the official lineup for our in-person event! 🎉 There's one week left to sign up - registration closes Nov. 1st. You don't want to miss this! #StoriesOfWiN #SfN #WomenInNeuroscience
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Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Want to know more about how do we collaborate across universities and countries to advance sensorimotor research and global health? Register (link below) and join us on October 16th in New York. Event sponsored by DWIH and University of Cologne, held at NYULH! www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...
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Motor Health: Transatlantic Cooperation Strategies and Tech Transfer in Sensorimotor Neuroscience | DWIH New York
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
My uk-koeln email has been accidentally deactivated by HR, so I lost access to emails, calendars and all linked accounts. So if I fail to reply, show up in meetings or forget deadlines please excuse me. As there is no timeline on when this will be fixed, the updated contact email is on gattolab.com
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Research Lab | Gatto Lab | Germany
Gatto Lab researches sensorimotor adaption mechanisms and spinal cord circuits
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
To keep up with technology in German Academia, I now built my own printing press. Soon you will be receiving my self-printed notes, job applications and grants rather than email replies and online forms.
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
New lab preprint: Leveraging the updated AutoGaitA toolbox, we revealed distinct species-specific mechanisms to generate propulsion during walking and the conserved pattern of age-related propulsive decline from flies to humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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AutoGaitA: A versatile quantitative framework for kinematic analyses across species, perturbations and behaviours
Individual behaviours require the nervous system to execute specialised motor programs, each characterised by unique patterns of coordinated movements across body parts. Deep learning approaches for b...
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Claire Wyart @clairewyart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Motor Folks: a nice opportunity to present your work & get feedback! BTW registration to the Conference "Searching Principles in Motor Control" on Sept 23-24, 25 is free but mandatory, please sign up and present your work to the French community ! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
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Searching for Principles in Motor Control - Sciencesconf.org
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I would like to thank again this year organizers and the ones started this in 2023. It's my favorite meeting because it's inclusive and diverse, and it brings the young motor community together in a wonderful 3 days of science, mentoring, and fun!
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Paper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation
Yao et al. developed a neuromechanical model based on experimental perturbations, aligning theory-predicted with genetically labeled cell types. This work highlights the importance of inhibitory inter...
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Great perspective on speed limit of human information processing
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
After the advance of getting a fax machine, today we finally got carbon copy paper to order poster printing. University Hospital of Cologne, German leader in technology!
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Sophie Steculorum @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
📢 🤩Excited to share our latest paper👃🧠! Huge thanks to the amazing first author @janice-bulk.bsky.social‬ and all co-authors, especially @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social and ‪@tobiasackels.bsky.social‬ 🙌! ‬‬ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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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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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I think I should celebrate my biggest achievement of the year: I finally own a fax machine. After getting a stamp, I am a step closer to true power in German academia!
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Last week to register to this amazing conference!!! Cross species cord meeting, you can't miss it!
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iBehave @ibehave.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🔊 Join us for the next #iBehave Lecture with Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber (Biozentrum Basel & FMI) @biozentrum.unibas.ch 🧠 Generating movements with brainstem circuits Host: @ggatto.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social 📍 Biocenter-Room 0.024 📧 Zoom: ibehave@uni-bonn.de #seminar
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iBehave @ibehave.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
📢 #iBehave lecture by Prof. Bence Ölveczky @harvard.edu "Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution" 📅 May 9, 2025 | 15:15 Host: Tobias Rose @unibonn.bsky.social @UniklinikBonn @ggatto.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social 📧 Zoom: ibehave@uni-bonn.de
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Silvana Valtcheva @svaltcheva.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Lab news: Excited to join @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social as part of the Lise Meitner Excellence program 🚀 A new era for the (now doubled in size) lab. We keep digging into the postpartum brain and unfolding plasticity layers, you'll hear from us soon.
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
GattoLab has a new mascotte HugoTheCat
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Activity of spinal RORβ neurons is related to functional improvements following combination treatment after complete SCI | PNAS
Various strategies targeting spinal locomotor circuitry have been associated with functional improvements after spinal cord injury (SCI). However, ...
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Stéphanie C Koch @skochlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, @liamebrowne.bsky.social and Rob Brownstone.
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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Check out our latest profile! Dr. Graziana Gatto (@ggatto.bsky.social) studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation. Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience
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Dr. Graziana Gatto — Stories of WiN
studies the spinal cord circuits involved in sensorimotor adaptation.
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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks to Jonas Fisch and Lena Lion from the #jNWG for organizing our symposium: "Wired for Motion: Perspectives on motor control" with Irene Pallucchi @sirinlieb.bsky.social @corinnagebehart.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
NWG2025 is over - Driving back with Mr. President in the Unikoeln van!
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
After a day of Neuroscience time to dance #nwg2025
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German Neuroscience Society e.V. - NWG @neurowissg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Circuits for behavior: cross-species strategies for adaptation & plasticity. Don´t miss our ibehave.bsky.social -sponsored symposium on the state-dependent dynamics shaping plans, actions and predictions across time scales in flies, mice & mole rats by ggatto.bsky.social jangrundemann.bsky.social
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iBehave (@ibehave.bsky.social)
Empowering Behavioral neuroscience with modern computing
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iBehave @ibehave.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Join us at the #iBehave #Symposium "Circuits for Behavior: Cross-species Strategies for Adaptation & Plasticity" at the NWG Meeting in Göttingen chaired by @jangrundemann.bsky.social & @ggatto.bsky.social 📅Mar 27 ⏰14:30 - 16:30 📍Lecture Hall 10 @unibonn.bsky.social @UKB @mpinb.mpg.de @dzne.science
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species
Organizers Salil Bidaye, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne Graziana Gatto, University of Cologne Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet Julie
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The endocytic adaptor AP-2 maintains Purkinje cell function by balancing cerebellar parallel and climbing fiber synapses: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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The endocytic adaptor AP-2 maintains Purkinje cell function by balancing cerebellar parallel and climbing fiber synapses
Tolve et al. demonstrate that AP-2 stabilizes GRID2IP to regulate synaptic function in Purkinje cells. Loss of AP-2 disrupts synaptic connectivity, alters network activity, and impacts motor coordinat...
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Computational Systems Neuroscience @nawrot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
--- Seminar in #Neuroscience --- Functional diversity of inhibitory amygdala microcircuits 🗣 Dr. Sabine Krabbe, DZNE, Bonn 📅 Jan 27, 2025 - 16:00 Lecture Hall, Biocenter @unicologne.bsky.social zoologie.uni-koeln.de/forschung/ne... @ibehave.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social
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Computational Systems Neuroscience @nawrot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
For students: Jan 23rd, starting 8:15 a.m. Presentation of NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH GROUPS in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences @unicologne.bsky.social Lecture Hall, Biocenter, Zülpicherstr. 47B @ggatto.bsky.social @ibehave.bsky.social @henningfenselau.bsky.social
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New paper from the @KononenkoLab! Happy to be part of this great work showing that less sugar is better your motor control, and autophagy makes sure you keep rocking on low sugar 😉 from molecules to behavior: tour de force!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Autophagy regulator ATG5 preserves cerebellar function by safeguarding its glycolytic activity - Nature Metabolism
Tutas et al. show an unconventional role for autophagy in the regulation of glycolytic flux in cerebellar Purkinje cells by maintaining the levels of the glucose transporter GLUT2.
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Last week to apply for a PhD position in my lab to dissect the cortico-spinal circuits for hindlimb control in healthy and Huntington mice. Email me CV, cover letter at the latest by Jan 22.
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Our new preprint on how excitatory V2a and inhibitory V1 and V2b neurons cooperate to drive scratching rhythm, with a new neuromechanical model showing how CPG perturbations affect rhythm and phase of motoneuron firing and frequency of joint oscillations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation
Rhythmic motor behaviors are generated by neural networks termed central pattern generators (CPGs). Although locomotor CPGs have been extensively characterized, it remains unknown how the neuronal pop...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A vestibulospinal pathway for context-dependent motor control of the mouse tail www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
With what can be defined as the worst Christmas mixtape, Happy Holidays from the Gatto Lab enjoying the Cologne Christmas Markets!
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Favorite part of my job: monthly testing eye showers and emergency showers in the lab while my lab watches terrified, expecting a flood any minute!
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is extremely sad news. When I started my PhD in motor axon guidance, her papers were my Bible. I never had a chance to meet her i. Person, but I would have loved to discuss science with her.
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Happy delayed Thanksgiving from the Gatto Lab
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Cajal Course - 9 pm we are still happily recordings EMG using myomatrix and having tons of fun spike sorting 😀 So great to have these students this motivated!!!!
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our @crc1451 got renewed for four years to keep tackling key principles of motor control in health and disease, and do so across species! I feel very lucky to be embedded in this great community! As they say in Cologne Alaaaf www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
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DFG fördert sieben neue Sonderforschungsbereiche
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Graziana Gatto @ggatto.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Starting to assess the development and functional heterogeneity of spinal inhibitory V1 interneurons acros species. Great preprints from the Bikoff lab biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and Sweeney lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The transcriptomic landscape of spinal V1 interneurons reveals a role for En1 in specific elements of motor output
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iBehave @ibehave.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
📢 Join us for the next #iBehave Online Seminar! 🗓️Oct. 11, 2024 🎙️Dr. Mackenzie Mathis @TrackingActions @EPFL_en 💡"Next-gen Movement Monitoring with Deep Learning & Generative AI" Hosted by @ikadow @unibonn.bsky.social @UniklinikBonn Zoom details: 📩 ibehave@uni-bonn.de #AI #neuroscience
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