Marla Feller
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Neuroscientist, retinal circuits, neuro development. UC Berkeley
http://fellerlab.squarespace.com/
Self renewing pools of mitochondria at axon branch points to support those loooooong axons. great thread and fascinating finding from colleague
@samlewis.bsky.social
Congrats to all!
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Katja Reinhard
15 days ago
Studying vision across light levels? Interested in rod photoreceptors and related (patho)physiology? Matteo Rizzi, Kate Powell and I wrote a review on rod photoreceptor activity at daylight
doi.org/10.1016/j.vi...
. Free access link here
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Dan Feldman
15 days ago
New preprint on sensory cortex dysfunction in Scn2a+/- mouse. Profoundly degraded sensory tuning and maps in S1--most dramatic of any ASD model. And rescued in post-critical period adults with CRISPRa.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Degraded sensory coding in a mouse model of Scn2a-related disorder and its rescue by CRISPRa gene activation
Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in SCN2A , a sodium channel gene expressed in cortical pyramidal (PYR) cells, lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by autism, intellectual disabi...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.13.694145v1
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Creative and important study for understanding visual processing.
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Bilal Haider
16 days ago
10+ years of vision 👁️research in mice 🐭recasts our ideas about the brain 🧠and sharing data 🧪📈... a brief guide 👇 Thanks to many colleagues and
@gtresearch.bsky.social
@gt-neuro.bsky.social
for connecting us w
@us.theconversation.com
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Thanks
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
for forwarding the tweets and the perspective. What an incredible opportunity for an incredible scientist. Proud day for
#neuroscience
at
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
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Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D.
29 days ago
Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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Piali Sengupta
about 1 month ago
Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and
@zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Interoception 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Neurobiology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10F6GKGJB67
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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD
about 1 month ago
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
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Hollya
about 1 month ago
Announcing the Inaugural Fluorescence Advanced Imaging Research Workshop
sites.uci.edu/aimlfdworksh...
A joint effort between UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, bringing together the cutting edge talks of AIM and the intensive hands-on experience of the LFD Workshop.
#microscopy
#fluorescence
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LFD/AIM Workshop 2026
https://sites.uci.edu/aimlfdworkshop/
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There is a matching campaign today for the Berkeley Basic Needs Center to help
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
students dealing with reduced CalFresh (SNAP) benefits. Give if you can!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580
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Support Basic Needs at Berkeley!
Help UC Berkeley students access food during the government shutdown.
https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580
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Ben Sivyer
about 2 months ago
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.
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Chiara Fornetto
about 2 months 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
&
@teuler.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
@cp-cell.bsky.social
👇🏻
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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Run-roh! Dr. Karina Bistrong’s last day in the lab. It was celebrated Scooby-Doo style 🐾🔍 She’s off to NYU for a postdoc with the exciting new lab run by @
[email protected]
— onward to solving the mysteries of motor systems!
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Piali Sengupta
3 months ago
Neuroscientists say No Kings
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Appreciating the art with fellow
@annualreviews.bsky.social
for vision science board members Roland Fleming and
@shinyanishida.bsky.social
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AMAZING!! 🎉👏👁️🧠🤓
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Annual Reviews
3 months ago
The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Vision Science is now online. The most read article so far is "Behavior-Specific Computations in the Vertebrate Retina"
arevie.ws/46HMEjd
@serenariccitelli.bsky.social
@annaintegrated.bsky.social
@katrinfranke.bsky.social
TOC:
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Erik Van Dis
3 months ago
Timely piece on the importance and safety of “gain-of-function” research, from my brilliant PhD advisor Sarah Stanley
www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...
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The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all
Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/gain-of-function-research-tuberculosis-expert-nih/
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a must read for anyone interested visual cortex plasticity - a fresh look at some textbook models and a fun read. congratulations to the authors!
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3 months ago
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Representing
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
#Neuroscience
chair
@danfeldman.bsky.social
and
@standupforscience.bsky.social
at annual
#BT5k
fundraiser for brain tumor research. GO BEARS!
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If you are a PhD student planning to graduate in Spring 2026, think about applying for a
miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship
. And if you are interested in development/neural circuits, I am happy to sponsor your nomination! email me....
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Miller Fellowship
UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
https://miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship
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Come join our new Department of Neuroscience
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
as an Assistant Professor!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
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Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
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Santiago Rompani
5 months ago
The lab's first paper is out! We find that pupil constriction in mice drives strong retinal activity in vivo, and that humans can also perceive pupil-shaped stimulus. This has repercussions for anybody using pupillometry. 🧵1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#neuroscience
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Pupil size modulation drives retinal activity in mice and shapes human perception - Nature Communications
The pupil is known to assist retinal adaptation to light level changes. Here, the authors find a mechanism for how the pupillary light reflex drives monocular and binocular retinal activity in mice an...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62736-4
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A giant YES for
@gliangel.bsky.social
for this incredible honor. Great news for Angel, the lab, and the greater neuroscience (
neuroscience.berkeley.edu/grad
) and
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
communities. We look forward to being a part of this fantastic community. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
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Mora Ogando
5 months ago
Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!! Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations 📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1 🧵
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Turns out that the “loudest” neurons are not always the most relevant ones. Great article about a fascinating and important result by
@hayleybounds.bsky.social
, graduate of
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
neuroscience.
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Thanks to
@rachanads.bsky.social
and the rest of my awesome lab for hosting
lawrencehallofscience.org/visitors/tee...
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Anne West
5 months ago
The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to
[email protected]
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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD
6 months ago
Hey 🧪 I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.
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christine liu / two photon art
6 months ago
🧠 Join the JNeuro Early Career Advisory Board! 🧪 A great way to learn about the world of publishing and support other early career researchers by sharing your perspectives! Apps due July 18
www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...
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Call for Applications: ECR Advisory Board | Journal of Neuroscience
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-board-applications?utm_campaign=Scientific%20Publications&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--tmF4mWOUqh-jzkIwVZkRm7-2rGwM7DNdGx7AY3-DjQnKboIJtPzGW2BXU817i9gNagJYGAZXfg7O40h3GZfqtOjOAGg&_hsmi=370038291&utm_source=hs_email
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RoordaLab
6 months ago
Lots of room for growth at
@uwaterloo.ca
. 🇨🇦 And were hiring 6 new faculty in
#optometry
and
#visionscience
. Spread the news. Contact me if you want to learn more.
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Lack of spontaneous activity (#retinalwaves) in early development prevents the formation of retinal circuits critical for stabilizing images as we move through the world.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience
7 months ago
Don't miss Dr. Doris Tsao of
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
on our latest episode of Neuroscience Perspectives with
@johnfoxe.bsky.social
👇Along with AI vs the brain, she shares that a mentor's support was pivotal in her career & how her father's curiosity helps fuel hers ➡️
urmc.info/25C
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Jessica Christian
7 months ago
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today
@sfchronicle.com
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Laura White
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Among other things
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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽🔬🇭🇷
7 months ago
Today I had the honor of speaking in front of nearly 3000 people today at the Woodland
#NoKings
rally. WE FEAR NO KING BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ONE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 let’s gooooooo
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Dan Feldman
7 months ago
Thousands at
#NoKings
in Oakland!
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represented in
#Oakland,CA
. incredible turnout including
@danfeldman.bsky.social
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Inspired by
@annaintegrated.bsky.social
- Hey
#BayArea
scientists, lets stand together with
@standupforscience.bsky.social
and
@indivisiblesf.bsky.social
for No Kings Rally Saturday, June 14. So many actions in Bay Area --
www.nokings.org#map
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fantastic day celebrating the career of Rachel Wong with her many friends and colleagues. Thank-you Univ Washington for hosting. Rachel - you will be missed
7 months ago
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as we plan to meet the
@standupforscience.bsky.social
call for summer teach-ins, UC Berkeley folk check out this great website for material
www.berkeley.edu/research-imp...
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Impacts of Research - University of California, Berkeley
https://www.berkeley.edu/research-impact/
7 months ago
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Why I love graduation! Cool neurobiologists,happy grads, funny hats. great job
@berkeleymcb.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Physiology and Biophysics
8 months ago
We had an amazing time at the 25th Annual A.R. Martin Lectureship last week! 🎉 Hosted by Phys on May 14–15, the event featured a keynote by Dr. Marla Feller (
@mfeller.bsky.social
) and stellar talks from our own trainees—Ana Buteau, Jordan Hickman, and Sujin Jun. 👏
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Honored to spend day at U Colorado Anschutz to give annual AR Martin lecture
tinyurl.com/2murjbpp
and chat with legend Bill Betz. thanks to host Alon Poleg-Polsky!
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This is a fantastic up-to-date summary of modern questions in retinal circuits, clearly presented and with great figures!. Required reading for anyone interested in the amazing computational capabilities of neural circuits. Congrats and a big thank-you to the authors.
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RoordaLab
8 months ago
Happy Birthday Gerald Westheimer. 101 years on May 13 and still publishing papers!
#livinglegend
of
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Stand Up for Science!
8 months ago
Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy. Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future. We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
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Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5383918/economists-trump-research-science-cuts-gdp-recession
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BWJones
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It’s
@mfeller.bsky.social
talking about her work in retinal directional selectivity at
#ARVO2025
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