Happy to share our lab’s first preprint! ‘Mutations in antimicrobial peptides differently affect sleep and plasticity’. Led by @rahulkumar211.bsky.social, with help from many in the lab. In collaboration with @evoimmunoimroze A thread 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are still accepting applications for the #postdoc opportunity in the lab 🕵‍♀️ 🧠 More details 👇 Postdoctoral position: lnkd.in/g4TkRxpM Research directions: lnkd.in/eV2iMKGf Our team and philosophy: lnkd.in/eh3nnNgq ⏬

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom but to set a limit to infinite error.” - Bertolt Brecht The Life of Galileo

More new science from the lab! Led by @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now at GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. We describe how experience tunes the ratios of functional receptors in a single sensory neuron via coordinating transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms to drive response plasticity.

Happy to share a wonderful Meeting Review of our @sleepneuroscience.bsky.social meeting in March! #EMBONeuroSleep shorturl.at/bFxPl

Sleep disturbance as the strongest predictor of subsequent psychiatric disorders in young people (greater than family history and adverse childhood experiences). Sleep disturbance is modifiable, a key node for intervention. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Agree 100%. A lot of students think of science as a hit parade, and don’t like sweating the small stuff. But the small stuff matters

Interesting read from the Seelig lab

And, it's a wrap! 3 wonderful days after a year in planning for the EMBO Workshop Neuroscience of Sleep @sleepneuroscience.bsky.social .

Amazing time indeed. Thank you so much, everybody, and @melnattur.bsky.social particularly! 🐙

Had a really amazing time @sleepneuroscience.bsky.social at Neuroscience of sleep conference in Delhi. Thought provoking science and fabulous company. Thankyou @melnattur.bsky.social and other organisers.

🎉🛍️ Exciting news! The EMBO workshop- Neuroscience of Sleep 2025 kit is here. It includes a T-shirt, tote bag, notebook, and pencil. We hope all the attendees are ready to dive into the latest in sleep research 🧠💤. Get ready to learn, connect, and take notes in style! ✨ #EMBOneuroSleep

I am thrilled that our paper, which is packed with our 10 years of data on the venom proteins of the parasitoid wasp Asobara japonica, has just been published! Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to everyone who applied. Applications are now closed. Please follow the account quoted here for updates!

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

Re-upping this as the deadline is approaching (Jan 15). The program for this EMBO meeting really is terrific - do apply and do spread the word!

Typical development of synaptic and neuronal properties can proceed without microglia in the cortex and thalamus Mice lacking microglia (Csf1r∆FIRE/∆FIRE) have normal synapse number, seizure susceptibility, neuronal and astrocytic gene expression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are super excited for this conference on the Neuroscience of Sleep, 11-13 March 2025, at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The program is terrific and the venue lovely, do apply! Re-skeets appreciated! meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu...

We're hiring! Please share! Exciting opportunities for #PhD students, #postdocs, and #research assistants to join our team in exploring how the brain prioritizes actions in conflict. #Neuroscience #Drosophila Interested? Reach out! rezavallab.org

Our latest discovery of “lowest recorded temperature for eukaryotic cell motility” going all the way down to -15deg C. Come for the crazy cold Arctic & stay for diatoms. Will write longer thread - but enjoy video below of diatoms gliding on frozen ice surfaces. Congrats @zqing.bsky.social & team.

Happy Fly Day, everyone! On 11/18 (and every day, really), we celebrate this amazing Drosophila model system!

Lovely to see this community grow. Long may it continue!

New study from Arantza Barrios' lab shows that valence of stimuli is flexibly encoded in the nervous system of C. elegans as they wiggle forward or backward... 🧪🪱 #neuroscience #behavior www.cell.com/current-biol...

Best moments in science are these small events of discovery when you finally get the answer to your question and when what you're doing suddenly makes perfect sense. It's like a mind fusion with the world you're trying to understand. - Dan Hartl

Hard to overstate how pleased I am that the FlyWire consortium converted our FAFB ("Full Adult Fly Brain") EM volume into a connectome, and that the resulting science has been (and will be) so impactful. Thanks to everyone involved. #neuroscience www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Multiple postdocs out to academic/industry jobs + 2 grant NOAs in = open postdoc position. Worms are great to work with, sensory biology is an endlessly fascinating topic, and we are a group of good humans. Please email if interested!

The #Drosophila Immunity Handbook 🧵 This project started as a review with the aim, in some sense, to update Lemaitre and Hoffmann (2007; Ann Rev Imm). Then it kinda... got out of hand. But the reason that happened is because Hannah is amazing. Find the free PDF here btw: bit.ly/DrosImmBook 1/n