Michi Forsthofer
@mforst.bsky.social
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Postdoc in the Baden lab. Looking into plasticity of vision in frogs πΈ
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Tobias Rose
6 days ago
How did I not know about this super-useful site for customized 3D-printable thread adapters? HT to
@leon-kremers.bsky.social
:
brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/
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Jayβs Adapt~O~Matic β BrainRight
https://brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/
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Chiara Fornetto
7 days ago
Excited to share our paper now published in Cell! 'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background' Huge thanks to
@neurofishh.bsky.social
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@teuler.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
@cp-cell.bsky.social
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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background
Vertebrate eyes first evolved in water, where spectral content rapidly fades with distance. Zebrafish exploit this loss by antagonizing cone signals to suppress the background, pointing to distance es...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01138-9
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Friday, 31st of October we are excited to host Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! 4 pm UK 9 am US west coast Tune in here:
youtube.com/live/gLwBRWe...
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World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series - 31/10/2025 - Dr. Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez
YouTube video by BadenLab
https://youtube.com/live/gLwBRWeL2-M?feature=share
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
about 2 months ago
Join the symposium for senior trainees & junior group leaders (organised by SWC's Sara Mederos and
@sandra-neuro.bsky.social
) at the International Winter Neuroscience Conference, Austria, April 2026. Abstract submission to present your work at the Early Career Symposium closes on 15 Oct
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Pascal Mamassian
about 2 months ago
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...
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Had a great time at the
#ERM
in PΓ©cs. Got to meet lots of great people from the retina field, and even won the audience vote for best poster!
about 2 months ago
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Excited for the European Retina Meeting next week, and to show some of my work on how πΈ see the world as peacefully filter feeding tadpoles or predatory frogs. Here's a sneak peek at the imaging part, for more info talk to me or see my poster on the baden lab website:
badenlab.org/posters/
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Georgios Kafetzis
2 months ago
ποΈThe retina β strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With
@mikebok.bsky.social
,
@neurofishh.bsky.social
and
@denilsson.bsky.social
, we argue that retinal complexity may ππππππ‘π π‘βπ ππ¦π ππ‘π πππ.
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Today, 12th September 5pm GMT+1 (9am US west coast) weβre excited to host Eugenia Chiappe! Tune in at
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtT...
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World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series - 12/09/2025 - Prof. Eugenia Chiappe
YouTube video by BadenLab
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtTLWcG4TQ
2 months ago
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This Friday we are excited to host Julie Semmelhack on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Tune in here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqh...
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World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series - 22/08/2025 - Prof. Julie Semmelhack
YouTube video by BadenLab
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqhkx-c2Rs&pp=0gcJCf8Ao7VqN5tD
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Next Wednesday, 15:00 GMT+1 (3pm UK, 4pm Europe) we have another Sussex Vision talk! Tune in at
www.youtube.com/@badenlab615...
for Michael Herzog (hosted by Jenny M Bosten). See you there!
4 months ago
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This Thursday, 13:00 GMT+1 (1pm UK, 2pm Europe) we have the Sussex Vision series coming back. Tune in at
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
to hear Fabio Cortesi talk about vision in coral reef fishes. See you there!
5 months ago
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The Sussex Vision Talk series is back! Join us to hear about all things vision, from retina to brain, from invertebrates to human.
www.youtube.com/@badenlab615...
Talks will be live-streamed (and stored) on YouTube, hope to see many of you there. Details on each talk coming soon.
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Katja Reinhard
5 months ago
Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks
github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...
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The SAFE Labs Handbook: community-driven commitments for group leaders to improve lab culture
Creating positive and equitable lab environments has become a growing priority for the scientific community and funders of scientific research. Research institutions typically respond to this need by ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.655799v1
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Katja Reinhard
6 months ago
New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with
@farrowlab.bsky.social
, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice
Animals encounter predators and prey under diverse lighting conditions that signal different risks and opportunities, yet how ambient illumination shapes innate approach and avoidance behaviors remain...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.14.653927
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Tom Baden
6 months ago
Our proposal for a βuniversalβ nomenclature for rod and cone types based on their evolutionary lineages that will equally apply to all vertebrate species is now out! Have a look and please consider adopting the system :)
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Kevin Staras
9 months ago
Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Katja Reinhard
9 months ago
We had an excellent week at the EMBO Subcortical Circuits Meeting in Assisi. First posters with lab-own data only, presented by the amazing Po-yu Liao and Lucia Zanetti! Great organising by
@santiagorompani.bsky.social
, Hiroki Asari, Tomomi Shimogori and Judith Hirsch
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Tom Baden
9 months ago
Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:
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Pranav Seth
10 months ago
The beauty of viral transfection in
#avianretina
π Here is a transfected
#amacrinecell
and some
#photoreceptors
in a cross-section of a
#chick
#retina
. Great image for
#FluorescenceFriday
Sample from
@neurofishh.bsky.social
Green: Viral transfected retina; Red: DAPI for stratification
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Dinu F Albeanu
10 months ago
Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills!
tenss.ro
Apply by: February 16th!
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Katja Reinhard
11 months ago
Technical assistant position in my lab is open now:
www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi...
Making viruses, helping with rodents, possibility to do some experiments (behavior, surgery, immunohistochemistry...). Please contact me for a chat before applying! Deadline February 6th our lab:
www.reinhardlab.org
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Pretty cool what you can do with free tools these days. Live tracking of a frog doing prey capture, using to
bonsai-rx.org
and
sleap.ai
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11 months ago
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Itai Yanai
11 months ago
The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.
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And for this
#FluorescenceFriday
, hereβs the sequel. Froglet of the same line from the Sweeney lab.
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12 months ago
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Katja Reinhard
12 months ago
Please get in touch with me if you're interested in making viruses and participating in other lab tasks and experiments! Let's chat to see if we fit before the official ad goes out next month. We're a friendly, young neuroscience lab at SISSA in Italy
www.reinhardlab.org
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Tom Baden
12 months ago
We are looking for a new lab administrator (based in Brighton, UK). This is a 50% position, and it is largely admin & computer based. It does not necessarily require a science background. Anyone interested please get in contact and/or apply here:
jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/565750b6...
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Research Projects Officer Ref: 32445 - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
https://jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/565750b6-62bf-4241-ae50-fd09368846fe
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