New study led by Ning Shen w/ @phruzycki.bsky.social: a genome-wide in vivo CRISPR screen in a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model identifies genes whose loss accelerates photoreceptor death. Overexpressing two, UFD1 and UXT, preserves photoreceptors, retinal function, and vision. 🧵

Artículo sobre nuestro paper en Infobae 👇

Light influences how the brain processes and recalls threats, shaping risk avoidance behaviors and potentially informing understanding of anxiety-related disorders. doi.org/hbvb67

2 weeks more to submit your abstracts for #AstrocyteCafe2026 👀 Deadline is April 1st!!!

Bird season is starting in Chicago 🪶🐦‍⬛🪺

Achucarro International Glia School is back! #AIGS26 Registration period is already open, and the final programme accessible. Looking forward to this edition in #Plentzia www.achucarro.org/gl...#AIGS26#Plentzia#astrocytes #microglia #oligodendrocytes #glialcells

My second paper as a postdoc in the lab of @tiffmschmidt.bsky.social is out! In this work, we developed a novel behavioral paradigm to study how light shapes long-term threat avoidance 🐭🦅 through a retina–thalamic–limbic circuit 👁️🧠 Excited to share it! 🙌🏼 👉🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon. rdcu.be/eX1Ld

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic symposium at an incredible institute!✨

My job: studying how light shapes behavior. His job: saving the world.

Want to hear about amazing research in ophthalmology? Register for the first inaugural Southwestern Vision Science Summit coming March 28, 2026! events.utsouthwestern.edu/event/southw...

One week left to submit an abstract to Senses in Motion 2026! It's bound to be an exciting meeting with an excellent line-up of speakers! Please join us! More details and registration link at 👇 sensesinmotion.org

Really looking forward to it! 🔜🇪🇸

Delighted to share our latest preprint. It's been a long time coming. Thanks to all the authors for their unique contribution and for for their patience. We show how the visual thalamus deals with active and passive head motion in freely moving animals: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you for the invitation @weillcornell.bsky.social! Fantastic discussions and inspiring colleagues!

We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.

Excited to share our paper now published in Cell! 'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background' Huge thanks to @neurofishh.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Two new papers to... er... skeet? Blurt? Bluert? First is that our paper on the transcription factor Adnp and the ChAHP chromatin remodelling complex is now out. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I already blurted the paper here: bsky.app/profile/pier...

Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

£250 Visual Art Prize Competition! We're looking for art work to represent our research on sleep & mental health. Deadline: 31st December! More info here: www.sleepengineering.co.uk/art-call-out

#Circadian #medicine tests if treatment timing can improve patient outcomes. This paper by @mariafelicita.bsky.social @oliviawalch.bsky.social et al considers #chronodiagnostics ...how the outcome of a standard test for glioblastoma differs with time of biopsy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Nice to find my research images decorating the department offices 🙂

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

Introducing CellTransformer, a new AI tool developed with UCSF that makes it easier to explore massive neuroscience datasets and identify important subregions of the brain. 🧵

🚨 New preprint out from our lab! 📄 The Rod Bipolar Cell Pathway Contributes to Surround Responses in OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper is out today! In @tiffmschmidt.bsky.social lab, we identified a single transcription factor, BRN3B, that shapes multiple, key features that define diverse ipRGC subtypes🧬👁️🐭

In case this is helpful for anyone, here is a post on how to get a job in french academia : trialsanderrors.substack.com/p/getting-a-... Aimed at non-french scientists who are curious, but french ones may find it useful too.

Delighted to announce this spring semester's programme for our Seminar Series "Current Topics in Circadian & Visual Neuroscience", featuring a roster of speakers discussing their cutting-edge research in vision and/or circadian rhythms. Register now! www.tscnlab.org/seminar

The ON/OFF dichotomy is fundamental to visual processing. In a new study led by Flori Soto, we identify a conserved molecular mechanism establishing the OFF pathway. rdcu.be/eikoa

Pleased to share the final published version of @glopez.bsky.social's work in @currentbiology.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Region-specific nucleus accumbens dopamine signals encode distinct aspects of avoidance learning" Congrats, Gaby!!!

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 My first work as a last author is out! 🧵⬇️ We explore how the mouse retina responds to UV & green light and why achieving the right natural illumination is crucial for accurately studying color vision. By Filippo Castellani, Awen Louboutin & Tom Quétu doi.org/10.1101/2025...

1/ There it is! 😊 Published today in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species. A 🧵👇 (1/9)

A US judge has blocked a policy that would have, beginning today, slashed billions of dollars of funding annually for US research institutions, including universities and hospitals. https://go.nature.com/4hvSeto

Our latest preprint about spectroscopic properties of unique #coral #opsins has been uploaded on bioRxiv. Coral anthozoan-specific opsins employ a novel chloride counterion for spectral tuning| www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! A wonderful collaboration of our @FellerMarla lab with Matthew Po, and @shekharlab. Here, we dive into the impact of spontaneous activity on the transcriptome of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the sole output neurons of the retina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

More complete announcement to come, but heads-up about a new summer course on Visual Neuroscience at the MBL, Woods Hole! Hands-on training in imaging, EM, bioinformatics, electrophysiology, visual behavior. From octopus to mouse, from retina to brain! Aug. 1-16, 2025 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

We are looking for a Data Scientist at the MBExC Excellence Cluster in Göttngen: shorturl.at/Jln3V . Please RT! Read on for more details.

If you haven't heard: @arpa-h.bsky.social has announced teams that will be working to enable whole-eye transplantation to restore vision for the blind & visually impaired. A bold goal! Details: arpa-h.gov/news-and-eve...

Neurons of the retina are fed by a network of vessels. Here all capillaries of a tiny volume are traced and measured revealing density, width, branch structure and depth. @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social doi.org/10.1167/iovs.65.14.3

Lots of folks on the Vision Scientists Starter Pack. Vision scientists: Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EWSGiv

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

Sunday morning of actograms analysis with my 2.5 yo

"my least favorite thing in life is to be called “resilient,” bc it means that people only see me through the lens of difficulty. They love the idea that I am resilient, but they don’t actually care about any of the things that made me resilient." @kss_phd www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Hi all! I’m a postdoc in the Schmidt Lab at Northwestern University studying how light impacts physiology and behavior 👁️🐭. Excited to be on the job market this year and so happy share my recent preprints!!! - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...