EXTERNAL SEMINAR - Benjamin Judkewitz (University Hospital Charité)

Benjamin Judkewitz (University Hospital Charité) will give a short external seminar, hosted by Thomas Chaigne (Fresnel).

Location: Hexagone
Date: 02.03.2026
Time: 1:30 PM

CENTURI is also providing for off-campus participants only a zoom link to attend the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85941690095?pwd=Nm5NVGhESGlUbG1FMnZ2dU5vSlkxUT09

Meeting ID: 859 4169 0095
Secret Code: 002024

Title: The smallest vertebrate brain knows how to sing.

Abstract: In this talk I will describe our work on Danionella cerebrum, a tiny fish that is small and transparent even in adulthood, when neural circuits and behavior have matured. Despite having the smallest known adult vertebrate brain, Danionella displays a rich set of behaviors, including courtship, shoaling, schooling and – remarkably – acoustic communication. I will discuss recent insights into their vocalisation behavior, brain-wide processing of acoustic stimuli, and how these tiny fish solve a big problem posed by underwater acoustics: tell the direction of a sound source.