Symposia Speakers

Johannes (Jonny) Kohl leads the State-dependent Neural Processing Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute. After studying Biochemistry, pre-clinical Medicine, and Neurosciences as an undergraduate, he completed his PhD with Greg Jefferis at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, focusing on pheromone processing in Drosophila. During his postdoc in Catherine Dulac's lab at Harvard University—funded by EMBO, HFSP, and Wellcome Trust fellowships—he deconstructed the neural circuits underlying parental behavior in mice. In 2018, he received the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. Since 2019, his group at the Crick has been exploring how physiological states influence neural information processing using behavioral, systems, and cellular approaches.