An animal study in Nature Neuroscience shows that high estrogen levels can enhance learning capabilities. #Neuroskyence 🧪

We have two advertised fully-funded PhD positions to work on memory or disease models in Drosophila! Please check the SWBio DTP website for more information and reach out if you are interested: www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...

The world’s “most dangerous animal” just got easier to study 🦟 HHMI’s @leslievosshall.bsky.social & #VosshallLab at @rockefeller.edu have built the 1st cellular atlas of Aedes aegypti, mapping everything from legs to antennae. Available now to all researchers, & the public: bit.ly/4oO4MzB

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

How do we time our daily rhythms as a function of seasons? Our answer to this lies in a neuropeptide-directed bilayered plasticity mechanism elaborated in this freshly online study. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 Paper alert!!!! 📣Very happy to have participated a tiny bit in this super exciting piece of work by the @bentonlab.bsky.social lab! @joybabadeep.bsky.social and @camilla-roselli.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting new Ruta lab preprint by @annaryba.bsky.social et al. on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation: Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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 🪰🧠 #preprint thread ⬇️1/8

New 3D reconstructions of Drosophila sensory neurons reveal striking diversity in dendrite shape, even among neurons of the same type. These findings open up new questions about how neuron structure relates to sensory function. buff.ly/dfRVVsm

New from the Kinghorn Lab! 🧠🔬 Our latest preprint shows that in fly 🪰🧬 Gaucher’s & Parkinson’s 🧠 models, kidney dysfunction drives neurodegeneration - supporting emerging links between renal health & Parkinson's. You can read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Explore neurons that enter/exit the fly central nervous system by body part with this clickable fly!: codex.flywire.ai/app/body_par... (graphics: @mottcallie.bsky.social‬, tool: Arie Matisliah) Vector graphics! github.com/wilson-lab/s... Effector cells in 3D! ng.banc.community/2025a/effere...

The ataxin-2 protein is required in kenyon cells for RNP-granule assembly and appetitive long-term memory formation #Drosophila

Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord) We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧠 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

The Ataxin-2 protein is required in Kenyon cells for RNP-granule assembly and appetitive long-term memory formation. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654326v1