ERC Starting Grant for Johannes Felsenberg

FMI group leader Johannes Felsenberg is among this year's recipients of a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He will use the grant to study the neural processes that allow memories to be changed, using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model organism. This brings the total number of ERC grants received by FMI scientists to 27 (since inception of the program in 2007). ERC Starting Grants are awarded to promising early-stage scientists who have already produced excellent supervised work, are ready to work independently and have the potential to be research leaders. In this round of evaluations, 124 European researchers have received funding in the Life Sciences, with a success rate of 13 %. The awardees this year include FMI group leader Johannes Felsenberg. The Felsenberg group investigates the neural circuits underlying memory re-evaluation in order to understand how learned information can be changed.