Volumetric functional ultrasound imaging in macaques https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.27.721041v1

🤸‍♂️ Researchers from the Voets Lab, have identified a tiny binding site, a molecular ’keyhole’, in the TRPM3 ion channel, a crucial sensor in pain signaling. TRPM3 is also linked to rare neurodevelopmental disorders and epilepsy. Published in Nature Communications. 🧠

Bold Science Real impact Welcome to VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience ! Exciting time 🤩

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience@vibneuroleuven.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 Proudly introducing the VIB-KU Leuven Center For Neuroscience, a merger of the two former VIB research centers VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF)! Our new motto: Bold Science, Real Impact. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhaq...

Continuous monitoring of cerebrovascular autoregulation using functional ultrasound imaging in the piglet brain. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675065v1

We map brain-wide functions of awake mice at the single-voxel scale ! Introducing PyfUS our brand new, ground-setting, open-source software for analysing brain-wide functional ultrasound imaging datasets. Now in #Neurocomputing @sciencedirect.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

New research from the @farrowlab.bsky.social and @boninlab.bsky.social at NERF out in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how the intricate dendritic architecture of midbrain neurons helps detect and compute critical motion cues. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0960-9822(25)00820-6

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Théo Lambert, Alan Urban, et al: Functional ultrasound imaging and neuronal activity: How accurate is the spatiotemporal match? doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

🚨New from Urban Lab @openfus.bsky.social in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social We combined fUS & Neuropixels in awake mice to test how well fUS reflects neuronal spiking. We targeted 3 visual regions during stimulus-evoked activity. How reliable is fUS vs spikes? doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Functional ultrasound imaging and neuronal activity: how accurate is the spatiotemporal match?

Abstract. Over the last decade, functional ultrasound (fUS) has risen as a critical tool in functional neuroimaging, leveraging hemodynamic changes to infer neural activity indirectly. Recent studies ...

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NERF@nerflabs.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest paper from the @alanurban.bsky.social‬ lab shows functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging reliably tracks neuronal activity with good spatial precision! 🎯 Congrats to the team! 👏 https://direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.1162/IMAG.a.34/131016/Functional-ultrasound-imaging-and-neuronal

🎨 Painted faces 🐁 Tickling experiments 🙋🏻‍♀️ Thought-provoking questions Where else but at the NERF retreat? 🤩

The anterior olfactory nucleus mediates curious exploration evoked by novel odors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654779v1

Exciting news: @boninlab.bsky.social‬ & @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social with ‪@franckp.bsky.social‬ receive SFARI funding to study how early synaptic development in SYNGAP1 mutants shapes brain circuits & behavior in autism. 👏 https://tinyurl.com/54ywzxm9

New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with @farrowlab.bsky.social, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice

Animals encounter predators and prey under diverse lighting conditions that signal different risks and opportunities, yet how ambient illumination shapes innate approach and avoidance behaviors remain...

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👋Hello BlueSky!🧠 👇Below is a thread on Open Neuroscience and how to contribute to our website: 🔬Know a #openscience #neuroscience project? ✍️Please list it on open-neuroscience.com -> forms.office.com/e/5QtUtMc3hw 🔍We will do a brief spam check and upload it to the website! 1/n

📣 Scientists led by Sandrine Da Cruz have successfully seeded the accumulation of TDP-43—a hallmark of ALS and frontotemporal dementia—using lab-engineered protein fragments 🧠🔬 Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

News from Urban lab @cbdresearch.bsky.social

NERF@nerflabs.bsky.social · last yr.

In a series of recent studies, the Urban lab shows how it's pushing the boundaries of functional ultrasound (fUS), with: 👉 AI-powered navigation tools with micrometer precision 👉 3D vascular mapping 👉 ultra-sensitive activity analysis https://blog.vib.be/peering-into-the-brain-with-ultrasound

Thus new review by Jennifer Hoy (University of Nevada) and Karl Farrow (NERF) takes a deep dive into the role of the superior colliculus. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00052-1 Beautifully illustrated by Pia Rachedi + open access @farrowlab.bsky.social

New work co-led by @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social introduces a powerful new approach to model conditional distributions of neural and behavioral data using masked variational autoencoders. Congratulations to @auschulz.bsky.social‬ et al. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)00109-3

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Aix Marseille university's "Safe Place for Science" program will provide 10 to 15 million euros ($11 to 16 million) that can accommodate around 15 researchers over three years. phys.org/news/2025-03...

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🚀New from Urban Lab in #eNeuro @sfnjournals.bsky.social We used spatiotemporal clustering of single fUS voxels to map visual activity in awake mice. This high-resolution method precisely separates signals, revealing fine-grained activity patterns like never before🧠✨ tinyurl.com/47t27c7k

Spatiotemporal Clustering of Functional Ultrasound Signals at the Single-Voxel Level

Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging is a well-established neuroimaging technology that offers high spatiotemporal resolution and a large field of view. Typical strategies for analysing fUS data compri...

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Detection, extraction and skeletonization of 🐭🧠 vessels from brain-wide angiograms acquired using fUS. 🎥 of the procedure : tinyurl.com/bdh46v6f

Clément Brunner@clembrunner.bsky.social · 2y ago

🥳🤩Last piece of work from Urban lab @nerflabs.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social in collab with Babin lab from Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of Gent Uni 🇧🇪

🥳🤩Last piece of work from Urban lab @nerflabs.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social in collab with Babin lab from Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of Gent Uni 🇧🇪

Large Scale in vivo Acquisition, Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction of Cortical Vasculature using $$\mu $$ μ Doppler Ultrasound Imaging - Neuroinformatics

The brain is composed of a dense and ramified vascular network of arteries, veins and capillaries of various sizes. One way to assess the risk of cerebrovascular pathologies is to use computational mo...

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Functional Ultrasound Imaging of Auditory Responses in Comatose Patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.22.24319283v1

Technical assistant position in my lab is open now: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi... Making viruses, helping with rodents, possibility to do some experiments (behavior, surgery, immunohistochemistry...). Please contact me for a chat before applying! Deadline February 6th our lab: www.reinhardlab.org

Katja Reinhard@katjareinhard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please get in touch with me if you're interested in making viruses and participating in other lab tasks and experiments! Let's chat to see if we fit before the official ad goes out next month. We're a friendly, young neuroscience lab at SISSA in Italy www.reinhardlab.org

What a week for the @boninlab.bsky.social! Celebrating the publication of two papers and now the news of an FWO project grant, enabling more exciting science over the next four years. Congratulations Vincent Bonin and Asli Ayaz. 👏

Mobile Human Brain Imaging using Functional Ultrasound https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.08.627337v1

Very nice talk given today @nerflabs.bsky.social by Robert Olhendorf from @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social about brand new tools for whole-brain molecular hemodynamic imaging 🤩 Very exciting work !

Please get in touch with me if you're interested in making viruses and participating in other lab tasks and experiments! Let's chat to see if we fit before the official ad goes out next month. We're a friendly, young neuroscience lab at SISSA in Italy www.reinhardlab.org

Reinhard Lab

12/2024 Çınar Furkan Ilhan joins the lab! Çınar is joining the lab as a new PhD candidate - welcome! He will be busy with courses in the next few weeks while finding out which project he'd like to wo...

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Katja Reinhard@katjareinhard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in making viral vectors, participating in rodent husbandry and maybe other techniques (behaviour assays, stereotaxic surgeries, immunohistochemistry) in a neuroscience lab? Get in touch to check if this would be something for you! Details in the picture below.

Looking for a #PhD in #neuroscience ? Check the 2025 PhD call by VIB-CBD @kuleuven.bsky.social and the excellent projects ! cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2025

International PhD Call 2025

The VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research is recruiting enthusiastic, creative, ambitious, and highly motivated PhD candidates to join us starting autumn 2025!

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