Good observation, however this represents the state of reconstruction rather than a biological difference. In ants and bees we segmented at high resolution, while, so far, the other species were traced manually at the level of neural backbones only.
This imaging and data analysis strategy was developed by the brilliant Valentin Gillet, Marcel Sayre and Griffin Badalamente! Huge thanks also to @janfunkey.bsky.social, the CAVE-team, the CMM team in Brisbane around Nicole Schieber, and the most amazing IT wizard Kevin Tedore!
... and for a little glimpse of comparative data, see figure 4. These are EPG neurons (head direction cells of the central complex) across a range of species, from earwigs to bees.
After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper from the lab, led by @ronjabigge.bsky.social, in collaboration with Kentaro Arikawa. We reconcile contrast and spatial processing functions of lamina monopolar cells by integrating 3D morphology, connectivity and neurophysiology in the hummingbird hawkmoth. tinyurl.com/mvnh3325
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Very cool! Congrats!!
On the left, the image shows a schematic of a fly head, ring neurons and EPG neurons together with some calcium imaging frames. On the right is a photo of a fly on a ball in virtual reality and another schematic of a VR system.
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Very proud of this new paper from the lab! Work by the magnificent Andrea Adden and many brilliant collaborators illuminate how moth and butterfly brains have evolved in light of different ecologies. Freely available here: rdcu.be/eVR3B; @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social
oh, and I should have flagged this with: @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social and @erc.europa.eu
Thanks so much! It took a while to get all the pieces together, but I guess it was worth it 🙂.
Wow, a million thanks Lauren!!
Thanks!!
Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)
Ever wanted to know how the visual system of a long distance migratory moth looks like? Then you'll find your answers in our new paper. Finally out, after about a decade of collecting data by a group af amazing co-authors. Find it here, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
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We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Yeah! Well done! Congratulations!!
New era for brain mapping, latest from Johann Danzl lab in @nature.com. Light-microscopy connectomics is at single-synapse resolution. Engineered hydrogel embedding + expansion, deep learning-based segmentation, and molecularly resolved reconstructions: axons, spines, connectivity, all visible.
X-ray nanotomography can be your new friend for neuronal imaging. In our new #preprint (tinyurl.com/nanoXneuro) we present advances that push the spatial resolution limit for X-ray holographic nanotomography (XNH). We can now resolve synapses. 🧵
We summarize about a century of research on ant behavior and put it into the context up the latest neurobiology insights, mostly from Drosophila. That said, there is one hidden bit of unpublished data in there to which the term ‘Now…’ indeed applies though 🙂
Interested in how ants navigate? Have a look at our new review in Current Biology! This piece has resulted from a collaboration with Tom Collett, Paul Graham. Open access:
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