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Another one with our next door colleagues! @marianneroca.bsky.social in @jameslightfoot.bsky.social's group found the IL2 neurons detecting prey (this study) are also sensing octopamine, which we recently found plays an important role in predatory aggression! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our home automation system has me saying 'daylight off' when leaving the house and I do not appreciate this Omen for my day.
Great across-the-pond collaboration. I'm glad we could contribute a small sliver to this cool paper.
@javierapfeld.bsky.social and Co used so many different techniques to answer the question, its a fun read! 🪱
Nature research paper: Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits
go.nature.com/3NxFCrs
How do new behaviors evolve?
A new Nature study shows how predatory aggression can emerge through changes in neuromodulatory circuits – without adding new neurons.
We’ve created a short animated explainer video to walk through the key ideas.
youtu.be/wNhjKDCPs_8?...
First joint work between @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and my lab is now published! Machine-learning, aggression, genetics, beautiful fluorescent transgenics and evolution! You can find it all!
PLOS Comput. Biol.: A data-driven biology-based network model reproduces <i>C. elegans</i> premotor neural dynamics
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013818
The project studies how the hippocampal CA1 integrates olfactory and spatial information for goal-directed navigation. The position is a 3-year DFG-funded PhD (TV-L E13, 65%) starting April 2026, jointly supervised by Prof. Tobias Ackels at University Hospital Bonn and Dr. Oliver Barnstedt at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen. The project uses dual-colour miniscope calcium imaging, optogenetics, and behavioural experiments in freely moving mice. Application deadline is 31 January 2026, with applications sent by email.
PhD position in systems neuroscience!
Excited to start a new DFG-funded project together with @obarnstedt.bsky.social to study olfactory–spatial coding in CA1.
🔬 Dual-colour miniscope Ca2+ imaging
🐭 Freely moving behaviour & optogenetics
⏳ Start: April 2026 | Deadline: 31.01.2026
More info below ⬇️
Richard Is super nice and I'm sure this would be a great place to do a PhD!
Awesome! wishing you the best of luck starting! May the reviewers be always in your favor!
A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
The open source spirit of the worm community makes it so special - and so powerful for discovery! Great account of the impact of the community tools and databases had and have on understanding fundamental biology! 🪱 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Important to keep these resources funded!
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!
www.fpbase.org/spectra/
Will be so fun to have you around!!
Proprioception and new function for two pharyngeal neurons!
Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social exactly what we were talking about re your #Celegans background setting you up for creative work in other systems! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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@leoboeger.bsky.social is our ambassador to this year's #BernsteinConference! He extended our recent work on behavioral states during predatory aggression to explicitly model latents and how they change in diverse neuronodulator mutants! As usual, joint work with the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social lab.
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
A poster advertising the open house at the MPI-NB
Sponsored by #Babots (babots.eu), we will share how we make worms glow, and I'll talk about understanding better how worms 'compute' when they have to make decisions.
Our colleagues also have prepared stations for kids and adults of all ages!
A hallway showing screens and microscopes in a modern building
Busy prep today for the open house @mpinb.mpg.de tomorrow! The 🪱 station is ready!
Discover how a fluorescence microscope works, pick some (gummi) worms, and play with an entire worm brain!
Plus we have a selfie-station to step into the shoes/coat of a scientist! #worms
📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors!
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025
🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD
Cleaning up I just found an ancient thumbdrive with talks and a guest lecture from 10 years ago. It's like a little time capsule from the 'dark years'.(post physical photos, pre-smart phone the artefacts remaining are minimal.
This is good!
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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