We are so looking forward to CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila 2026 🔬 🧠.

The new application deadline is April 13th. Come join us!
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🪰 A new ‘Eyemap’ developed by a team led by Arthur Zhao & @michaelreiser.bsky.social reveals how visual information detected by the fly’s eye shows up in neurons deep in the brain. Remarkably, the eye’s shape determines how flies see motion.👁️
🔗 hhmi.news/4kSZjou

Amazing paper! Very proud to have helped a tiny bit, but Mert deserves all the credit. What a tour de force!!

🪰How does a fruit fly walk or fly in a perfectly straight line — even at high speed? It’s not just sharp vision. A sophisticated neural computation is at work.
🧠New study led by @champalimaudf.bsky.social Eugenia Chiappe.
📖 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/researc...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share my PhD paper is out! We studied how motion vision is processed beyond the optic lobes to help flies walk straight. It has been a wonderful collaboration with @michaelreiser.bsky.social, @dddavi.bsky.social and many others not in bluesky!
Paper + digest here: bsky.app/profile/cham...

Congratulations, Jerome!

Frank is a truly amazing Janelian!

We are so fortunate to work with him and so many wonderful people every day!!

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We're looking for 1-2 enthusiastic early career chemists to join our Open Chemistry team at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Come help us create amazing dyes and share them with the world. Please share with the best recent/soon-to-be B.S. chemists you know! bit.ly/42w8C6N

Oh Brian. I am so, so sorry. I have no words,but yours were so beautiful.

May her memory be a blessing.

Thank you, Gonzalo!

OMG, I am honored, Matt!

Thank you, Chris!

Thank you so much Ana Marija!!

you are too kind, @csdashm.com -- all the code management, discipline and general brilliance was managed by @fra-loe.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy with buy-in from the whole team

An illustration of two plates of cells, with a slight difference in the size of one of the organelles.

Can you spot the difference between the cells on the left and right?

Read on for the solution (and a preprint announcement)… 👇

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Thank you to the person who first showed me how to trace neurons!

thank you, Maria...so much work from so many great people! We tried our best to build a resource for the field, but I think it's actually a paper that's still readable!

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system

Looking forward to reading this!
@michaelreiser.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This project was a marathon, and we are all so proud of the finished product.
Thanks to all 70 co-authors who contributed in so many ways. #connectome #flyvision #openscience

Extended Data Fig. 14 |Examples of split-GAL4 lines matched to EM-defined cell types.

we also released hundreds of cell-type specific split-GAL4 lines matched to connectome defined cell types!

Find the lines:
🪰🧠 splitgal4.janelia.org/cgi-bin/spli...

And of course, the whole connectome dataset is available on neuprint:
🪰🧠 neuprint.janelia.org?dataset=opti...
Explore & discover to your heart's content — or let us know what you'd like to know and we can help!

GitHub - reiserlab/male-drosophila-visual-system-connectome-code: Supplemental source code for Nern et al. 2024: "Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system". The Cell type explore... Supplemental source code for Nern et al. 2024: "Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system". The Cell type explorer repository is at https://github.com/reiserlab/male-...

we're trying to make connectome analysis as accessible as possible #openscience 💻🔍
We’re sharing all our code so you can reproduce our figures or go deeper into the analysis:
🪰🧠 github.com/reiserlab/ma...

Yes, the paper is cool...
BUT if you’re a fan of fly vision and neuroanatomy, the Supplemental Materials are the real treat 🎉
We made a catalog of all the cells and it's ✨beautiful✨
🧭 Interactive explorer: reiserlab.github.io/male-drosoph...

Reiser lab and friends group photo from lab fun day after we submitted the paper, April 2024

This massive effort was made possible by the incomparable Aljoscha Nern and an amazing team of experts, passionate neuroscientists, and all-around brilliant humans. 🙌💡We all pitched in to analyze, curate, and visualize all the beautiful neurons of the fly visual system.

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to have this paper out (rdcu.be/d0T3Y)! In it, we focused on how flies know what to attend to in a complex environment (like below)?

We uncovered neuronal pathways through which social states (like aggression 🥊) modulate visual processing in #Drosophila. #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧪 1/

Early vision Neuroscience community, Vol 1

We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long

Addition requests, please see link in the below thread

go.bsky.app/BotZr1g

Good morning #SfN23 people! Our lab has 3 posters this morning (Sunday Nov 12) and 2 tomorrow morning (Monday Nov 13). We'd love to see you and share our latest on fly vision, circuits, and behavior.

this feels like the first day at a new school, looking for someone I know so I don't need to sit alone at lunch 😅

thanks for the invite!!