Meg Younger
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Neuroscientist with too many plants. Assistant professor @bu-biology. she/her youngerlaboratory.org
It was so fun to work on this with
@gkocker.bsky.social
and
@clienkaemper.bsky.social
! It is out
@pnas.org
If you love olfaction and love math, this one is for you! 🦟👃🧮 When noncanonical olfaction is optimal | PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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When noncanonical olfaction is optimal | PNAS
The early olfactory system is canonically described by a “one-receptor-to-one-neuron” model: each olfactory sensory neuron (OSN) expresses a single...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508439122
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Greg Jefferis
3 months ago
Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a
#scRNAseq
developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the
#connectome
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#preprint
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Minsu Kim
3 months ago
It’s surreal to think that every neuron and synapse in the fly brain + cord that was dissected almost five years ago (the photo’s still on the lab slack!) is now just a click away on Codex
codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
. This wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible team behind it!
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Wei-Chung Allen Lee
3 months ago
With
@megyounger.bsky.social
's lab, et al., we present the first connectomics work in the disease-vector mosquito Aedes aegypti, revealing how its brain is wired to detect host cues. Preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#Neuroscience
#Connectomics
#vEM
#VectorBiology
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New preprint from
@darbly.bsky.social
@briandepasquale.bsky.social
and my labs! If you love (or hate) mosquitoes, have a look:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We used TEM to describe the circuitry used for CO2 detection by mosquitoes. As usual with mosquitoes, nothing is as expected! 🌬️🦟
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Recurrent connectivity supports carbon dioxide sensitivity in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
The mosquito Aedes aegypti′s human host-seeking behavior depends on the integration of multiple sensory cues. One of these cues, carbon dioxide (CO2), gates odorant and heat pathways and activates hos...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.29.667487
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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab)
5 months ago
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences
#TransposonDay2025
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Klingenstein Philanthropies
5 months ago
The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund thanks
@rswilliamson.bsky.social
, @megyounger.bsky.social, and
@sungsoo.bsky.social
for presenting their research at the recent Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience Conference. 📷 : SimonProPhoto
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So excited for
@lforencia.bsky.social
and all of the amazing fellows!!
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5 months ago
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Excited to share new work with
@clienkaemper.bsky.social
and
@gkocker.bsky.social
! 🌬️🦟
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
9 months ago
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers.
sloan.org/fellowships/...
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Finally setting this up
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