You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶
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The registration is open! Junior #Drosophila PIs, join us for inspiring scientific discussion, contribute a talk and listen to our keynote speaker, Eugenia Chiappe. We meet in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 3rd. Register soon as spots are limited!
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Deadline today! Submit and abstract and join us to discuss science in the exciting brain body interaction field!
À pergunta "Como podemos viver mais tempo?", Devi Sridhar responde com políticas públicas - na alimentação, na mobilidade ou na poluição.
Entrevista hoje no PÚBLICO com a investigadora britânica @profdevisridhar.bsky.social 👇
www.publico.pt/2025/12/23/c...
Ever wondered how MRI creates images from inside the body?
We made a child-friendly explainer video (german) 🎥👇
youtu.be/k-KCyoUP9vA #scicomm
Very happy for this @ejneuroscience.bsky.social editorial on the importance of diverse research animals in neuroscience. We make the case that embracing a plurality of model organisms enriches the field and accelerates both basic and translational research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇
"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Naively, I never considered it - if we are to successfully ‘colonise’ space we need to get much better at understanding & building functional ecosystems that include recycling & environmental regulation.
We know how to build rockets; time to better understand biology
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'Politicians often thought “we’ll let someone else do the primary discovery and we can then just exploit it”, Leptin said, “forgetting that in order to exploit scientific knowledge that was generated elsewhere, you yourself have to have the people who are skilled in using that knowledge”.
Yes! Let’s email. We might be traveling then but let’s see.
Happy new year Ben. Our dinner in Crete was a highlight last year. Might you have a less „interesting“ year. See you this summer?
Happy new year. And I hope we get to meet again often. Like our spontaneous get together in Basel.
To many discoveries, friendships, health, joy, and keeping the eye on the ball. Nothing is ever acquired. Lets keep on fighting for the important things in life!
Things might be foggy but let’s continue our voyage into the unknown with curiosity and enthusiasm.
1000% Of you got the cash to do that. Many places do not have startup allowing you to do that. I was lucky in this sense. Also a lot of dats from postdoc.
100%. And that is also my biggest criticism to grants. Especially if you can use a model system which allows for discovery and efficient follow up… often: I have this cool idea of how to perturb and check outcomes and then we see what happens (aka screen) is not a fundable strategy but great science
The long-held belief that only female mosquitoes bite may not be true after all.
Very excited to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study showing that male mosquitoes can also bite and feed on blood.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fantastic. Congratulations.
Landing and takeoff sensorimotor pathways illustrated alongside fly drawings showing behavioral responses.
How do animals channel sensory information into motor pathways to generate flexible behavioral output? Excited to share a new preprint addressing this question by leveraging the new #maleCNS connectome, behavioral experiments, and in-vivo recordings: doi.org/10.64898/202.... A long🧵...
Save the date!📅🧠👇
Fantastic lineup of speakers: @clbockting.bsky.social, Ioannis Bakogiannis, Eero Castrén, @francescacirulli.bsky.social, Ashley Cooper, @marilyngatica.bsky.social, Agustin Ibanez,
@satupalva.bsky.social, @pessoabrain.bsky.social, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, Marten Scheffer
“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊
Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab.
I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
Schematic of how ER-EPG plasticity enables the bump of activity in EPGs to accurately track visual cues. As a fly makes a counter-clockwise turn (top to bottom) it will view visual cues (e.g. the sun) from a new angle and the EPG activity bump (red) will swing clockwise around the network by integrating self motion signals with these visual inputs. When the fly faces a different angle, distinct visual ER neurons are active. Plasticity forms a trough of weak synapses (large circles - strong synapses, small circles - weak synapses) that allow ER neurons with distinct visual tuning to move the EPG bump via disinhibition.
*First preprint from our lab* !!!!!
How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭
led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman:
“Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Sad day. My thoughts go to his family. Still processing that he is gone. Adam always seemed invincible with his humanity, generosity, and positive attitude. In his world you could build anything, be anyone, and understand everything. And the world was full of wonders and beauty.
Congratulations
A rare gloomy and rainy day. Fits with the news of the day. Goodbye Adam.
