Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

🧠 A new paper from our lab is out! In this study, we explore how dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) circuits modulate forebrain activity and behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Topographically organized dorsal raphe activity modulates forebrain sensory-motor representations and contributes to defensive behaviors - Nature Communications

Functional heterogeneity of dorsal raphe nucleus is not fully understood. Here authors show topographically organized sensory and locomotor responses from the zebrafish dorsal raphe and its forebrain ...

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Fascinating closing plenary lecture by Prof Edward Chang, UCSF at the last day of @fens.org Forum in Barcelona. A full room of attedes was mesmerized by the emerging field of human systems neuroscience and neural computations underlying human speech perception.

Thursday afternoon @fens.org PS06-09PM-198 Emerging patterns of astroglia-neuron interactions in network hyperexcitability and seizures PS06-09PM-397 Investigating neural architecture and connectivity in the larval zebrafish forebrain using an open-source whole-brain electron microscopy dataset,

5 posters form our lab this morning at @fens.org Forum all on astroglia and seizures . Come visit us !!

The Yaksi lab has landed at @fens.org Forum with 18 lab members and 16 posters. Come visit our posters form sensory processing in zebrafish forebrain (Trondheim) to astroglia-neuron interactions in neural excitably (Istanbul) …

If you have ever wondered how pallial circuits of other vertebrates beyond cortex in mammals are functionally organized, please check out this new paper from the Yaksi lab! By studying other species, we get closer to understanding the general principle of brain circuits and computations 🐟🧠

Emre Yaksi@emreyaksi.bsky.social · last mo.

I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.

We are excited to share our collaboration with @pheereynolds.bsky.social, Robert Hindges & team on retinal plasticity, now out in Neuron! This work shows how visual experience during early development changes the anatomical and functional properties of amacrine cells and ultimately behavior!

Early visual experience elicits cellular and functional plasticity in the retina and alters behavior

The understanding of experience-dependent plasticity in the vertebrate retina is largely incomplete. Reynolds et al. discovered that raising animals in differently patterned visual environments change...

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The Yaksi Lab is landing in Barcelona for @fens.org - FENS FORUM🚀 !!! 15 posters from Trondheim (sensory computations in forebrain circuits) and Istanbul (astroglial regulation of neural excitability). Come say hello and meet our team! 😊 Dates, times, poster titles, and presenters are listed below.

@nathaliejuya.bsky.social and I are on our way to beautiful Barcelona for @fens.org Forum. See you all in 2 days !!!!! You all are coming right ? ;) the program is amazing <3 fensforum.org

FENS Forum 2026 | Barcelona, 6-10 July

Advancing Neuroscience Together

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I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.

Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits

Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · last mo.

Out now in @science.org by @emreyaksi.bsky.social, Anh-Tuan Trinh and colleagues at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim: Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits doi.org/10.1126/scie...

And that’s a wrap… Ending the final FENS forum program committee meeting with support from amazing @fens.org admin team, we are now ready to welcome you all in Barcelona on July 2026 with an exciting program … looking forward to seeing you !!!

Auroras over Trondheim viewed from the plane, with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social ❤

A lot is happening up on Hjerkinn plateau this Christmas holidays <3

Christmas Eve ski trip with these ice age beauties ❤ Happy holidays to you all form me and @nathaliejuya.bsky.social ❤

Lunch with muskoxen at −11°C with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social , on the shortest day of the year…

Looking forward to this celebration of neuroscience in Istanbul !!! This will be such a treat for science, culture, history and food …

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 8mo ago

🌟 Exciting news for the #neuroscience community! ✈️ #FRM2027 is going to Istanbul, Turkey for the first time ever! 🧠 Join us for a new chapter chapter for neuroscience, hosted by the Neuroscience Society of Turkey together with the Greek and Serbian Neuroscience Societies. Stay tuned!

Chasing the sun at -5 degrees with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social ❤

What a beautiful November İstanbul “sun”day morning along Bosphorus, in between Asia and Europe. Many pods of dolphin fishing in between continents were the absolute bonus of the day ❤

Thrilled to share our new paper! With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste. Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference - Nature

Calcium imaging of taste neurons and the ventral brain provides insight into evolutionary divergence of food choice in Drosophila species, supporting a role of sensorimotor processing in addition to p...

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19km of winter wonderland, with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social .

It has been one of the best science experience of my life to be a part of this network, send your nominations and applications for FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence @fkne-scholars.bsky.social

@fkne-scholars.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

The first ski trip of the year with @nathaliejuya.bsky.social , we found the sun in between snow storms 🙂

Registrations are now open !!! Come join us at @fens.org Forum 2026….

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 9mo ago

🚨 Big news for the neuroscience community! The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠 👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao

What a pleasure to have Prof Sten Grillner form @ki.se visiting us at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience for 2 full days and inspiring us about vertebrate forebrain evolution

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

From cognition in the body to the body in cognition

Carlos Ribeiro and Albino Oliveira-Maia propose how brain–body interactions may inform the study of ‘higher’ cognitive functions such as learning and memory across model systems.

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Thank you @phylobrain.bsky.social for visiting us and sharing inspiring ideas about the evolution of the vertebrate cortex and beyond …

What is the best brain to study disorders of behavior? Great discussion at @ecnp.eu moderated by @jatinnagpal.bsky.social with inputs from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @emreyaksi.bsky.social @eknapska.bsky.social & Hannah Clarke #ecnp2025

A wonderful Istanbul evening on Bosphorus with colleagues to celebrate science