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Simon Wiegert

@simwieg.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist looking at life through lenses. Running a lab when not teaching physiology. Passionate about optogenetics, imaging, synapses and neuromodulation. Otherwise:🏃🚴🎵 www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/medical-faculty-mannheim/neurophysiology

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Simon Wiegert @simwieg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The hippocampus is a brain region which is involved in building cognitive maps of our environment. But how stable is the brain's internal map of space? In our new paper, we tested what happens when we stimulate key inputs to the hippocampus's place cells in CA1 doi.org/10.1016/j.pn... 1/5
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Simon Wiegert @simwieg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Lab outing 2025. Beautiful weather, beautiful wine, beautiful people
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Simon Wiegert @simwieg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Every lab should have a Bell of Glory. Here is ours and it sounds great
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Simon Wiegert @simwieg.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
On the way to Berlin to celebrate Peter Hegemann's 70th birthday with a surprise symposium (he's not yet on bsky - no risk of spoiling it). Looking forward to seeing many friends from all over the world. Peter has been a central figure in building this community. #optogenetics
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