A study on distance estimation in flies from my PhD lab is now on @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our study on optic flow memory in fish is now on Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...

I'm back in Japan for the Japanese Neuroscience Society meeting last week in Niigata. It was a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet new colleagues. Sushi was also excellent.

Bit late, but I was at the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting at the beginning of the month. The topic was a bit out of my expertise, but I learned a lot about chemistry, met a lot of great people, and above all thoroughly enjoyed being at another corner of Freistaat Bayern.

Our review is on the cover! www.nature.com/nrn/volumes/...

As I transitioned from studying Drosophila to the larval zebrafish, I have been noticing a lot of interesting parallels between their visual systems (esp. tectum vs. lobula), which I feel are not talked about enough. We explored these analogies in depth in our latest review: tinyurl.com/3hvkhsyk

As I am posting these, I am in Awaji island, Japan, for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference starting today. The last time I was here I was like 5. The landscape is incredible.

Check out my new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here I run a bunch of psychophysics experiments to better understand how the larval zebrafish🐟 remember the past optic flow in the context of stabilization behaviors.

1/3 How does visual input affect the heading direction (HD) network? In our latest lab preprint, Ryosuke presents "visual landmarks" to larval zebrafish and shows that the HD network tethers to the visual environment. The experiments are again inspired by the beautiful recent work in Drosophila.