News

  • Congrats to Kaya Baumert who is the first grad student in the lab for being awarded the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes PhD Fellowship!

  • Talk @ Zhejiang University seminar series

    Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Jan 5th, 2024, 04:30 PM Beijing time, 09:30 AM European time

  • Talk @ Social Brain

    Social Brain Magdeburg

    Magdeburg, Germany

    Dec 6th, 2023, 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Session# 1, Innate Behaviors

  • Congrats to Mingyu Yang who is the first postdoc in the lab for being awarded the DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoc Fellowship (2 years)!

  • Talk @ SFN

    Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

    Washington D.C., USA

    Nov 13th, 2023, 9:30 - 12:00 PM Symposium# SYM08.01

    Neuronal Bases of Adult-Newborn Relationships

    Chairs: Manuel Mameli (UNIL) & Silvana Valtcheva (University of Cologne)

  • Talk @ DNM

    Dutch Neuroscience Meeting

    Tiel, The Netherlands

    Jun 22th, 2023, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Session# 7

    Tuning innate behavior through hypothalamic circuits and synapses

    Chairs: Mahesh Karnani (Amsterdam) & Alexander Jackson (Storrs, CT, USA)

  • Talk @ FRM

    FENS Regional Meeting

    Algarve, Portugal

    May 4th, 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Symposium# 11

    Plasticity of innate behaviors

    Chairs: Nicolas Gutierrez-Castellanos (Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal), Susana Q. Lima (Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Talk @ NWG

    15th Annual Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society

    Göttingen, Germany

    Mar 24th, 2023, 1:00 - 3:00 PM Symposium# 34

    Novel insights into hypothalamic mechanisms for adaptive control of homeostasis

    Chairs: Jan Siemens and Henning Fenselau

  • Congrats to Kaya Baumert who is the first grad student in the lab for being awarded the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit PhD Fellowship (3 years)!

  • Congrats to Mingyu Yang who got accepted to the Mentoring Program for International Female Scholars (IFS Mentoring) at the University of Cologne!

    Check the IFS Mentoring Website

  • Poster abstract @ SFN 2022

    Nov. 14, 2022, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Poster# 294.08

    Title: Locus coeruleus activity improves cochlear implant performance

    Authors: Erin Glennon, Silvana Valtcheva, Angela Zhu, Mario A. Svirsky and Robert C. Froemke

    Nov. 15, 2022, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Poster# 478.04

    Title: Neural circuitry for oxytocin release and maternal behavior

    Authors: Silvana Valtcheva*, Habon A. Issa*, Kathleen A. Martin, Chloe J. Bair-Marshall, Kanghoon Jung, Hyung-Bae Kwon and Robert C. Froemke

  • Talk @ DZG

    114th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society
    Bonn, Germany

    Sept 14th, 2022 - 11:30 am

    "Neural circuitry for hormonal release and maternal behavior in mice”

  • Networking event for young scientists at FENS 2022 in Paris.

    Read the press release here (in German).

  • 2x Poster abstracts @ FENS 2022.
    Paris, France


    Poster 1:

    Date & Time: Poster Session 03 - Monday, 11.07.2022, 09:30 - 13:00

    Title: Neural circuitry for oxytocin release and maternal behavior

    Authors: Silvana Valtcheva, Habon A. Issa, Kathleen A. Martin, Chloe J. Bair-Marshall, Kanghoon Jung, Hyung-Bae Kwon and Robert C. Froemke


    Poster 2:

    Date & Time: Poster Session 06 - Tuesday, 12.07.2022, 14:00 - 17:30

    Title: Motivation states that promote maternal behaviors in mice

    Authors: Habon A. Issa, Silvana Valtcheva, Robert C. Froemke

  • Valtcheva lab has joined the Institute for Vegetative Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne.

    Press release (in German).

  • Read/listen to Silvana’s interview for Stories of WiN here.

  • 2x Poster abstracts @ Cosyne 2022.

    Poster #III-147, Poster session 3

    Title: Integration of infant sensory cues and internal states for maternal motivated behaviors

    Authors: Habon A. Issa, Silvana Valtcheva, Kathleen A. Martin, Chloe J. Bair-Marshall, Kanghoon Jung, Hyung-Bae Kwon and Robert C. Froemke

    Poster #III-027, Poster session 3

    Title: Synaptic and mesoscale plasticity in auditory cortex of rats with cochlear implants

    Authors: Ariel Edward Hight, Erin Glennon, Silvana Valtcheva, Mario A. Svirsky, Robert C. Froemke

  • Talk @ E.A.R.S.

    Virtual

  • Talk @ Neurons in Action meeting (Nencki Institute, Warsaw)

    Virtual

  • DFG Emmy Noether junior group leader grant (# 467461831) was attributed to Silvana Valtcheva.

    Topic: Neural circuits for oxytocin release and maternal behavior.