Niccolò Zampieri
Group leader @ MDC
mdc-berlin.de/zampieri
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriWant to come do a postdoc with us? We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriExcited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriNew PhD-course! Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Understanding Cognition Venue: University of Copenhagen Length: 8 Wks, March 2-May 1st Registration before 1 February 2026 lnkd.in/ea63A59B Organizers: Rasmus Herlo (@rasherlo.bsky.social) and Rune W. Berg @naddenmark.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriNew review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriHello 🇫🇷 I’ll be doing a mini-sabbatical in the lab of the amazing @clairewyart.bsky.social at the ICM in Paris. If you study motor control, spinal cord biology, evo/devo of behavior, let me know if you’d like to connect!
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriWe are hiring a postdoc to work @istaresearch.bsky.social on an @erc.europa.eu funded project, investigating the control of behavior and physiology by the hypothalamus. Please apply and share! ist.ac.at/en/job/postd...
- Pot of gold somewhere at the Salk 🌈
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriAre you thinking of enrolling in graduate school next year? The @lsiexeter.bsky.social is a fantastic place for multidisciplinary research... and my group is also hiring! Apply here 👇
- Are you looking for a PhD starting in September 2026/27? Then do not miss the fantastic opportunity to be part of the LSI PhD Community. New positions for the LSI PhD Programme are out now. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... Deadline: 26.11.2025
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested! #locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics
- On November 2nd with @alesantuz.bsky.social we will participate to Family Sunday at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden to talk to chidlren and their families about proprioception. Looking forward to it 💥
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri📢 🚨 Technical Assistant Opportunity in Neuroscience 📢 🚨 Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and support research on how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior! ⏳ Deadline: 15. November 2025 Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriThe @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- "In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity: that esoteric, seemingly useless exploration can lay the bricks for a road to places we cannot yet see."🎯 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriOur department started a podcast to let people know about our research and the impact that it has on the public! Please have a listen and subscribe to the series! Also available on Apple podcast, Spotify, and Transistor, www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri“For Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him” He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriHow do we facilitate working across institutions and borders to improve sensorimotor research and health? Join us for an evening of discussing the future of technology and collaboration in sensorimotor neuroscience. Made possible by the DWIH, held at NYULH! www.dwih-newyork.org/en/event/mot...
- I really like this one 🤓. Work led by Elisa Toscano with invaluable help from many 🙏 @alesantuz.bsky.social, @lowensteined.bsky.social. A spinal circuit for skilled locomotion www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriDelighted to be starting a new research group at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social ! Happy to chat about working together! #pain #infection #electrophysiology www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/research/...
- Sampurna Chakrabarti @amapruns.bsky.social entwickelt das Forschungsfeld der "Nocifection" für ein umfassendes Verständnis von Schmerzen während Virusinfektionen. Sam war zuvor Postdoc am @mdc-berlin.bsky.social. www.helmholtz-hzi.de/forschung/fo...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriNew cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriNew preprint out from the lab. We identified three critical windows over which sensorimotor behaviours can be shaped. Altered early experience over these windows changes somatosensory and motor outcomes for life. Tour de force experiments by Laura Andreoli. @medresfdn.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀 You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriDo comparator modules exist within spinal circuits? Here, we show that spinal dI3 neurons integrate multimodal sensory feedback, receive direct efference copy from Renshaw cells, and mediate corrections of ongoing movements. Thank you so much to everyone involved!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriHey #motorcontrol researchers! @jul-bouvier.bsky.social, LeMouel & I organize *Searching for principles in Motor Control* Paris Sept 23-24, 25 @sorbonne-universite.fr @institutducerveau.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social: Submit Abstract for Posters by Aug 31! motorconference.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriTeneurin-3 and latrophilin-2 are required for somatotopic map formation and somatosensory topognosis biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriDo you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriPostdoc program at the MDC in Berlin, @mdc-berlin.bsky.social : take a look 👇👇 For this call, collaborative projects between two groups will be funded. Take a look at the call and the groups and drop me an email if interested. Share with colleagues too! www.mdc-berlin.de/postdocs#t-g...
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri🚨🚨🚨 OPEN POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🚨🚨 in my lab! Are you interested in understanding how the brain moves our arms? Reach to your computer and apply! www.mosbergerlab.com/open-positions
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriStockholm bound for #isb2025! Come and say hi on Tuesday (poster on loss of #proprioception) or Wednesday (talk on #locomotor modularity in simulated #hypogravity)! #musclesyneRgies #neuroscience #biomechanics #locomotion @mdc-berlin.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriOpen-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting). github.com/facebookrese...
- New paper from our group out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriEmbodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social. #neuroskyence #neuroai www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriTo identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriSuper excited for my PhD work to be out at @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! We thank the reviewers for how they shaped the final form of this story.
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriHappy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri👨💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriDear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriWe work on humans with @antoniocbscosta.bsky.social @marcoromanato.bsky.social @wyartlab.bsky.social predicting effects of #DBS in Parkinson's Disease patients. Yet, understanding cellular & circuit mechanisms underlying behaviour require model organisms 🎏🐭🪱🪰 & cannot be done in humans nor organoids
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriWe’re hiring! Join us @unige_en as a Full/Associate Prof. in Neuroscience (Chair of Excellence). Focus: development, molecular & cellular evolution of brain circuits. Great team, top science, Geneva 🇨🇭 🧠 Apply by Aug 15, 2025 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriHear from our Editor-in-Chief, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, in the latest episode of @stemcellpodcast.com.
- I was interviewed recently by @stemcellpodcast.com I witter on about morphogens, notochord, @dev-journal.bsky.social & how biology is becoming a data science Thanks @stemcellpodcast.com for talking to me stemcellpodcast.com/ep-299-spina...
- Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriThis is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri
- 🚨PhD position opening on a project aimed at defining the role of different sources of sensory information on locomotor control. 📢 ⬇️ www.mdc-berlin.de/zampieri#t-j...
- Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriPaper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Niccolò Zampieri🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of @kevinfidelin.bsky.social & myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿
- 🚨Job opportunity 🚨 The @clairewyart.bsky.social 's lab, at the @institutducerveau.bsky.social is looking for a lab manager to help us cracking the molecular underpinnings of motor circuits in vivo and across species !
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriIs it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriPostdoc in Computational Biology – Auditory Pathways & Sensory Disorders @LallemendLab to study how peripheral/central auditory pathways (circuit, cellular, molecular) are altered in tinnitus & age-related hearing loss. #scRNAseq, #barcode-lineage-tracing, #translational ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriWe are doing it again!! 🚶♀️🚶♂️🚶🧪🧫🔬 For the Second Year My Lab is participating to the One_Walk_London 🎡 to raise money for life-changing research & make a difference to T1D #diabetes ⤵️ support.breakthrought1d.org.uk/fundraisers/... Please help us raise funds for @breakthrought1duk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriCredits: It was a long & intense project. All credit to Marine Fontaine (maths) & Joaquina Delas (xpts) for driving it forward. Supported by Meri Saez, Lizzie Finnie, and Rory Maizels It's the result of a longstanding collaboration with David Rand Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriBeautiful work from @sagnera.bsky.social & co on how spinal neurons diversify A temporal TF clock in spinal neurons, sequentially specifying different motor and sensory neuron subtypes during development A shared molecular timer driving cellular diversity www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriComputational Neuroscience Workshop announcement: August 11-14, 2025 Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK Registration is open! neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriExcited to present our study in @natneuro.nature.com: a deep brain pathway that triggers safety-driven movement—overriding needs like finding food or social contacts. A look into how the brain weighs deep instincts. Congrats to all and first author @nkrauth.bsky.social. shorturl.at/toYFN
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriToday, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriIntroducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriAn example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriVery happy to announce a workshop I'm co-organising with Marion Silies and @crltt.bsky.social, taking place 2-4 Sept in Ingelheim, Germany! 'Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function', hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops @unimainz.bsky.social & with a fantastic line-up! Details below 🔻
- Reposted by Niccolò ZampieriInterested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏
