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Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms
(Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green)
🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2...
🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...
Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress.
rdcu.be/fbd4a
Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine building
Max Planck Instittute for the Science of Light building
🚨New Lab Alert!🚨 Superhappy to announce that I will start my lab combining photonics & neuroscience at the Max Planck Center for Physics & Medicine in Erlangen & @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social in January 2027! Reach out if you're interested in internships, BSc, MSc & PhD & postdoc projects!
Congratulations Fabian!
First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator?
Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🧵below!
Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill?
Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes.
Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
Several fly larvae are crawling on an agar surface.
The second paper from the lab is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We discovered that cannibalistic behavior in fly larvae is social-context dependent. Larval groups avoid dead conspecifics; individuals show high attraction. They only do it when no one is watching 😉
Check out our preprint investigating host use in sympatric Caenorhabditis nematodes! We found three Caenorhabditis species in a local community are associated with different invert taxa, and document a strong association between one species and invasive nitidulid beetles.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
We are hiring a lab manager, for our research group, the Synthetic Neurobiology group (aka Boyden Lab) at MIT/HHMI (on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA)! Please apply if you're qualified and interested, and spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Today's highlighted project is from Group Leader Christian Rödelsperger:
🔍 Explore how transcription and translation evolve across populations of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus.
💡 Work at the frontier of genomics, combining data, evolution, and biology.
📅 Apply by 19 Jan.
🔗 lnkd.in/dJ_8j2BM
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.
Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....
Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025
🧠 Janelia researchers have developed a new way to map how individual connections between neurons change across the entire brain during learning, giving scientists a new view into how changes in behavior show up in the brain. www.janelia.org/news/new-ima...
EM reconstruction of mouse CA1 neurons. Congratulations @helenelab.bsky.social and co-authors!
The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!
FIB-SEM dataset visualized with Microscopy Nodes, data from Mocaer et al 2023
Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀
This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev).
High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Among the most agile of flying creatures, dragonflies have evolved to perform quick aerial maneuvers both to attract mates and to catch prey midair.
Now, researchers have documented and explained a unique stunt the insects perform so quickly most people never see it. scim.ag/40mKKBI
We thought these might work as a filter, but I like your velcro idea :)
This from my PhD work -- I wish I could follow up on this :) We did do TEM of the filaments. I should have some pictures
I don't think so. These are some kind of cuticular filaments. We've never seen anything like this in other nematodes and have no idea what they do.
This is my personal favorite -- the nematode Pristionchus borbonicus, which can be found in figs
Excited to share our single-cell study on aging mouse brain! We found 2,449 cell-type specific age-DE genes, and an aging hotspot in specific hypothalamic cell types involved in energy homeostasis, which show both decreased neuronal function and increased immune response. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
