job opportunity at the Making Lab at the crick. you will get to interact and use problem-solving skills with many groups - including ours! If you like combining engineering, electronics, programming and more to advance science, this is for you crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
a group of Drosophila erecta fruit flies on a small food patch. flies on white background
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint
We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.
Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit
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We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Thank you @edrc2025.bsky.social !! What a great honour to give the first talk at this amazing meetin!
Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @martajhill.bsky.social for highlighting our work!
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Finally, the organisation of the olfactory circuit enable us to interpret function out of structure, uncovering core conserved as well as hot-spot subcircuits, and leading to testable predictions.
We identified evolutionary patterns. E.g. over short evolutionary distances neuron types and numbers remain conserved, but how they connect changes. See schematic for other key points!
How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇
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This is TIBBE – The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution network.
We bring together researchers on brain evolution to exchange ideas, share expertise on tools and methods, share data and discuss new findings.
Discover & join TIBBE on our website and a short video tibbe-network.github.io
New position in the lab to work on a very cool project on how viruses hijack behaviour 🐛🦠Please spread! :)
We are hiring a new (Senior) Lab Research scientist to work in our team together with @antoniotorm.bsky.social to understand how virus alter neural circuit function to manipulate behavior. More details and how to apply: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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