Great week in the lab, including the Carver College of Medicine Investiture. Thank you to the Roy J. Carver Charitable Foundation for supporting our research. It was an honor to reflect on, and speak about, the influence of my mentors, and the work of our lab members, past and present (pictured).

How do we balance innate responses & adaptive learning when reacting to threats? @tjryan.bsky.social &co show that repeated exposure to looming stimuli reduces innate defensive responses via #hippocampal modulation, revealing a vCA1 engram needed for learned #fear @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4pNSnNp

An absolutely awful turn of events. I am heartbroken over the firing of the Flybase staff. Thanks to @claudia-lopez.bsky.social for covering this important story.

🧠 Our latest paper is out! Here, we show that Ataxin-2 is essential for memory formation via RNP granule dynamics in Drosophila. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0167... #Neuroscience #Memory #RNA #Drosophila #NewPaper @tamaraboto.bsky.social @simon-sprecher.bsky.social

📣 Recruiting a PhD Student! 🇪🇸 Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level. Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social Apply by early Sept. #PhD #Memory #Neuroscience

Latest preprint from our lab, describing how cellular signaling changes in neurofibromatosis type 1 affect two behavioral and metabolic phenotypes. Loss of Nf1 increases Ras, but these phenotypes differ in their dependence on downstream signaling. #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New Preprint from the lab, and the second half of Elizabeth Hodge’s masters project - we dived into whether shifts in visual #foraging behaviours and spatial #memory in #Heliconius involved changes in sensory systems🧪 1/n

We're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share! Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline: 10 July More info here: www.rezavallab.org