Bold Science Real impact Welcome to VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience ! Exciting time 🤩

Continuous monitoring of cerebrovascular autoregulation using functional ultrasound imaging in the piglet brain. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675065v1

We map brain-wide functions of awake mice at the single-voxel scale ! Introducing PyfUS our brand new, ground-setting, open-source software for analysing brain-wide functional ultrasound imaging datasets. Now in #Neurocomputing @sciencedirect.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

New research from the @farrowlab.bsky.social and @boninlab.bsky.social at NERF out in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how the intricate dendritic architecture of midbrain neurons helps detect and compute critical motion cues. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0960-9822(25)00820-6

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Théo Lambert, Alan Urban, et al: Functional ultrasound imaging and neuronal activity: How accurate is the spatiotemporal match? doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

🚨New from Urban Lab @openfus.bsky.social in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social We combined fUS & Neuropixels in awake mice to test how well fUS reflects neuronal spiking. We targeted 3 visual regions during stimulus-evoked activity. How reliable is fUS vs spikes? doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

🎨 Painted faces 🐁 Tickling experiments 🙋🏻‍♀️ Thought-provoking questions Where else but at the NERF retreat? 🤩

The anterior olfactory nucleus mediates curious exploration evoked by novel odors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654779v1

Exciting news: @boninlab.bsky.social‬ & @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social with ‪@franckp.bsky.social‬ receive SFARI funding to study how early synaptic development in SYNGAP1 mutants shapes brain circuits & behavior in autism. 👏 https://tinyurl.com/54ywzxm9

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...

👋Hello BlueSky!🧠 👇Below is a thread on Open Neuroscience and how to contribute to our website: 🔬Know a #openscience #neuroscience project? ✍️Please list it on open-neuroscience.com -> forms.office.com/e/5QtUtMc3hw 🔍We will do a brief spam check and upload it to the website! 1/n

📣 Scientists led by Sandrine Da Cruz have successfully seeded the accumulation of TDP-43—a hallmark of ALS and frontotemporal dementia—using lab-engineered protein fragments 🧠🔬 Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

News from Urban lab @cbdresearch.bsky.social

Thus new review by Jennifer Hoy (University of Nevada) and Karl Farrow (NERF) takes a deep dive into the role of the superior colliculus. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00052-1 Beautifully illustrated by Pia Rachedi + open access @farrowlab.bsky.social

New work co-led by @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social introduces a powerful new approach to model conditional distributions of neural and behavioral data using masked variational autoencoders. Congratulations to @auschulz.bsky.social‬ et al. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)00109-3

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Aix Marseille university's "Safe Place for Science" program will provide 10 to 15 million euros ($11 to 16 million) that can accommodate around 15 researchers over three years. phys.org/news/2025-03...

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

🚀New from Urban Lab in #eNeuro @sfnjournals.bsky.social We used spatiotemporal clustering of single fUS voxels to map visual activity in awake mice. This high-resolution method precisely separates signals, revealing fine-grained activity patterns like never before🧠✨ tinyurl.com/47t27c7k

Detection, extraction and skeletonization of 🐭🧠 vessels from brain-wide angiograms acquired using fUS. 🎥 of the procedure : tinyurl.com/bdh46v6f

🥳🤩Last piece of work from Urban lab @nerflabs.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social in collab with Babin lab from Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of Gent Uni 🇧🇪

Functional Ultrasound Imaging of Auditory Responses in Comatose Patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.22.24319283v1

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

What a week for the @boninlab.bsky.social! Celebrating the publication of two papers and now the news of an FWO project grant, enabling more exciting science over the next four years. Congratulations Vincent Bonin and Asli Ayaz. 👏

Mobile Human Brain Imaging using Functional Ultrasound https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.08.627337v1

Very nice talk given today @nerflabs.bsky.social by Robert Olhendorf from @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social about brand new tools for whole-brain molecular hemodynamic imaging 🤩 Very exciting work !

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

Looking for a #PhD in #neuroscience ? Check the 2025 PhD call by VIB-CBD @kuleuven.bsky.social and the excellent projects ! cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2025