The first Danionella paper from the lab. Danionella cerebrum is transparent, so you can see all of the internal organs. But what sensory information are the organs sending to the brain? In our new preprint, Emily Bayer wanted to find out. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm thrilled to announce the opening of the Kaplan lab at the University of Virginia @uvabio.bsky.social ! We are a neuroscience lab aiming to define circuits underlying naturalistic behaviors in infants and adults. We're actively recruiting students and postdocs. Learn more at kaplan-lab.org.

Do you have trouble sleeping when away from home or your partner and family? In our latest, we find that shells 🐚🏠 (homes) and conspecifics 🐟❤️ (family) control (or mask) circadian rhythms in shell dwelling cichlid fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

Alt: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

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@jlarsch.bsky.social and I are organising the 2026 CIG Symposium on June 11-12 in Lausanne on "Information transfer: from genes to behaviour", featuring an eclectic set of brilliant scientists. Details and registration here (abstracts by May 1, registration by June 1): www.unil.ch/fbm/en/home/...

Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software. image.coop/blog/posts/2...

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be starting my lab as a SNSF starting grant professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne! I'm looking for PhD students who are fascinated about the neuronal basis of behaviour across species @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Deadline March 1. Join the new Dietschy Facility for Tissue Science. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Deadline March 1. Join the new Dietschy Facility for Tissue Science. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Deadline March 1. Join the new Dietschy Facility for Tissue Science. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org

This past month marked the end of an era at the @schierlab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch. It was a meaningful, intense, often challenging, but also incredibly rewarding chapter of my scientific journey. Thank you all in the Schier Lab for the unconditional support and the Schierleading!

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

This is just the first effort of our foray into cichlid behaviour and genetics! If you are interested in working on the evolution, genomics, and neurobiology of sleep and chronobiology @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social in beautiful Toronto, please reach out! shafer-lab.netlify.app

Sleep Evolution Group

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Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415... with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Molecular patterns of evolutionary changes throughout the whole nervous system of multiple nematode species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624988v1

Molecular patterns of evolutionary changes throughout the whole nervous system of multiple nematode species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624988v1

One avenue to better understand brain evolution is to map molecular patterns of evolutionary changes

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Are you a #postdoc with an innovative vision for starting your own lab in #Syntheticbiology, #Genomics, #GeneRegulation, #Development, #Cancer, #Immunology or #InfectionBiology? @IMPvienna is inviting applications for group leader positions: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-... Pls share!