News – The Self-Assembling Brain

From the author’s lab: New research paper on self-organization of brain wiring in the journal Science

May 5, 2024

Axonal self-sorting without target guidance in Drosophila visual map formation Agi et al., 2024, Science. PMID: 38452066, DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3043 Abstract The idea of guidance toward a target is central to axon pathfinding and brain wiring in general. In this work, we show how several thousand axonal growth cones self-pattern without target-dependent guidance during neural superposition wiring in Drosophila. Ablation of…

Audiobook Release August 8 and Pre-Order Promotion

July 31, 2023

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The audiobook (read by Joel Richards) is about to be released – and the publisher has initiated a preorder promotion (and some new cover art :). Check it out on audiobooks.com!

The Self-Assembling Brain Audiobook is coming!

March 27, 2023

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Since Princeton University Press has announced the release of the Paperback of The Self-Assembling Brain for Dec. 13, 2022, we are glad to announce that the audio rights have been licensed to Recorded Books! This is going to be interesting, especially for the 10 dialogues of our favorite geneticist, robotics engineer, Artificial Intelligence Researcher and Neuroscientist. We’ll post the release…

Paperback Release on Dec. 13, 2022

June 10, 2022

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Princeton University Press will release the Paperback of The Self-Assembling Brain in December! Check out reviews in Science, TechTalks, on goodreads & amazon, …and a series of podcasts. How does a neural network become a brain? While developmental neurobiologists investigate how genes encode the growth of intricate connectivity as a basis for learning, computer scientists design artificial neural networks with…

100.000 views of the Royal Society Lecture

March 8, 2022

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The June 2021 Lecture ‘The Self-Assembling Brain’ has now been watched more than 100.000 times on youtube, with 3.600 likes. Well, maybe not much in a world of internet celebrities, but remember, this is only a lecture on the brain and AI, with very little in the direction of self-help and zero pictures of cute cats… Thank you again to…

From Imprecision to Robustness in Neural Circuit Assembly: Research Unit awarded

December 20, 2021

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) has founded a new research unit headed by Peter Robin Hiesinger that will examine the fundamental principles of brain development. The research unit includes thirteen principal investigators who are involved in nine closely linked research projects that explore how variability affects brain development despite identical genetic information. The researchers working in the nine projects within…

Royal Institution Lecture on Youtube – 68K views after 4 weeks!

July 31, 2021

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The Royal Institution hosted a one and a half hour live lecture and discussion on The Self-Assembling Brain and the cross-talk of biological and artificial neural network research. Thanks to 800 participants for signing up, watching it live or over the next week via the Royal Institution video link. The lecture is online since July 2 on Youtube. Thanks for…

Interview on biological and artificial intelligence in Berliner ‘Tagesspiegel’

July 7, 2021

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On July 3, 2021 the Berlin newspaper ‘Der Tagesspiegel’ published a short interview with the AI researcher Christoph Benzmüller and Peter Robin Hiesinger about biological and artificial intelligence. On July 20, the Free University of Berlin has also published an English translation.

June 8 release in the UK and Europe

June 9, 2021

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One month after the May 4 release in the US, The Self-Assembling Brain has just been released in the UK and Europe! Thanks to a wonderful review in the journal Science, and a very well-attended lecture and discussion at the Royal Institution, The Self-Assembling Brain has hit it off well on the Amazon bestseller lists in the US, UK and…

Livestream Lecture at The Royal Institution on June 8

May 6, 2021

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The Royal Institution will host Peter Robin Hiesinger for a lecture and discussion of The Self-Assembling Brain on June 8 at 7pm UK time (11am US West Coast, 2pm US East Coast, 8pm in Central Europe). More information and tickets available here.

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