Publications
Heterogeneous Plasticity of Amygdala Interneurons in Associative Learning and Extinction. Natalia Favila*, Jessica Capece Marisco*, Catarina M. Pacheco, Selin Kenet, Benjamin Escribano, Yael Bitterman, Jan Gründemann, Andreas Lüthi, and Sabine Krabbe (2025). Nature Communications.
The Cellular Architecture of Memory Modules in Drosophila Supports Stochastic Input Integration. Omar A Hafez*, Benjamin Escribano*, Rouven L Ziegler*, Jan J Hirtz, Ernst Niebur, and Jan Pielage (2023). eLife.
Selective Suppression and Recall of Long-Term Memories in Drosophila. Dominique Siegenthaler, Benjamin Escribano, Vanessa Bräuler, and Jan Pielage (2019). PLOS Biology.
*Equal contribution
Theses
Functional and Structural Analysis of Engram Cells in Drosophila.
Benjamin Escribano (2021).
Live Imaging at the Drosophila NMJ to Study Synapse Assembly and Disassembly.
Benjamin Escribano (2015).
Preprints
Heterogeneous Plasticity of Amygdala Interneurons in Associative Learning and Extinction. Natalia Favila*, Jessica Capece Marisco*, Benjamin Escribano, Catarina M Pacheco, Yael Bitterman, Jan Gründemann, Andreas Lüthi, and Sabine Krabbe (2024). bioRxiv.
Dendritic Signal Integration in a Drosophila Mushroom Body Output Neuron (MBON). Omar A Hafez*, Benjamin Escribano*, Rouven L Ziegler, Jan J Hirtz, Ernst Niebur, and Jan Pielage (2020). bioRxiv.
Integration of Odor-Induced Activity of Kenyon Cells in an Electrotonically Compact Drosophila Mushroom Body Output Neuron (MBON). Omar A Hafez*, Benjamin Escribano*, Jan Pielage, and Ernst Niebur (2020). bioRxiv.
Acknowledged in
Neuronal Extracellular Vesicles and Associated microRNAs Induce Circuit Connectivity Downstream of BDNF. Anna Antoniou, Loic Auderset, Lalit Kaurani, Eva Sebastian, Yuzhou Zeng, Maria Allahham, Silvia Cases-Cunillera, Susanne Schoch, Jan Gründemann, Andre Fischer, and Anja Schneider (2023). Cell Reports.
The full list can be downloaded here as a BibLaTeX file.
Public Presentations: Posters, Seminars, and Workshops
Presentation slides, posters, and more can be provided upon request.
“Von der Idee zum Durchbruch - Prototypisierung als Treiber der Wissenschaft” @ MakerSpace Bonn e.V. in Bonn, Germany (June 2025).
“Von der Idee zum Durchbruch - Prototypisierung als Treiber der Wissenschaft” @ iBehave DLR Projektträger Meeting University of Bonn, Germany (June 2025).
“Hardware Explorers Club” @ The CADRE - Collaborative Accelerator for Development and Research Engineering in Bonn, Germany (November 2024).
“PCB Design - Basics for Neuroscientists” @ The CADRE - Collaborative Accelerator for Development and Research Engineering in Bonn, Germany (November 2024).
“BITboy - A Neuroengineering Teaching Project” @ iBehave Summer School in Odenthal, Germany (September 2024).
“Fusion360 CAD - From 2D Materials to 3D Designs” @ Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research (IEECR) Retreat in Luxembourg (September 2024).
“The CADRE Demo Desk” @ Science Festival University of Bonn, Germany (July 2024).
“Laser Alignment for 2P-Microscopy” @ Bonn International Graduate Schools (BIGS) Summer School in Bonn, Germany (June 2024).
“The CADRE Demo Desk” @ Deutsche Neurowissenschaften Olympiade CAESAR Bonn, Germany (March 2024).
“Plasticity of Amygdala Interneurons in Associative Learning” @ 12th Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum in Paris, France (July 2022).
“Dendritic Signal Integration in a Drosophila Mushroom Body Output Neuron (MBON) Essential for Learning and Memory” @ 14th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (NWG), Germany (2021).
“Encoding Memories: Functional Analysis of Engram Cells in Drosophila” @ Arthropod Neuroscience Network (ANN) Weekly. University of Cologne, Germany (January 2021).
“Encoding Memories: Functional Analysis of Engram Cells in Drosophila” @ Faculty of Biology Seminar. Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (December 2020).
“Selective Suppression and Recall of Long-Term Memories in Drosophila” @ Neurobiology of Drosophila Meeting. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA (October 2019).
“Network Principles in the Learning Fly” @ Topics in Neurobiology. Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (July 2019).
“Calcium Imaging of Putative Engram Cells in Drosophila” @ 13th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (NWG), Göttingen, Germany (March 2019).
“Identification of the Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Synapse Assembly and Disassembly Using Live Imaging” @ 11th Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum in Berlin, Germany (July 2018).
“Live Imaging at the Drosophila NMJ” @ Fly Club Basel, Switzerland (February 2016).
“Identification of the Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Synapse Assembly and Disassembly Using Live Imaging” @ Swiss Drosophila Meeting. University of Fribourg, Switzerland (June 2014).