The ultimate milestone! 🏁 Huge congratulations to Dr. Chrysoula Giasafaki for earning her PhD today under the guidance of Dr. @guillelbendito.bsky.social 🎓🧠 Best of luck in your next adventure, Chrysoula! The lab wishes you all the success in the world! 🌟🥂

Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH@neuroalc.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎉 Enhorabuena a la recién nombrada hoy Dra. Chrysoula Giasafaki por su defensa de #TesisIN y felicitaciones a su directora de tesis, la Dra. Guillermina López-Bendito @guillelbendito.bsky.social @glb-lab.bsky.social 🎉 @umh.es @csic.es @dicv.csic.es

FENS is wrapped up, the World Cup is over... and our sights are officially set on Japan! 🏆⚽️🇯🇵 Only a few days left to register for #SPONT2026! Don't miss the chance to join the global neurodevelopmental community to discuss spontaneous activity and neural wiring. 🧠⚡️

🚀 The grand finale of an unforgettable week! As #FENS2026 comes to a close today, we want to thank everyone who stopped by to discuss neuroscience. Highly inspiring days that remind us that no lab is an island. Safe travels back home, everyone! #BrainDevelopment #ScientificNetworking

🚀 Our poster presentations at #FENS2026 wrap up today! We are hitting the floor one last time with three fantastic posters🧠🔬 Find our codes, and join the discussion before the poster area closes! 👇✨ #Neuroscience #DevelopmentalNeurobiology

Missed @guillelbendito.bsky.social ’s Plenary Lecture at #FENS2026? 🧠💡 Watch her FENS TV interview on how genes and spontaneous activity dialogue to shape sensory circuits before birth, challenging traditional views 🧬✨ 📺 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sJ... @neuroalc.bsky.social

Challenging Traditional Views of Brain Development

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Happening now! An incredible honor to open the #FENS2026 and contribute to the global scientific dialogue from day one! 🚀👋 @guillelbendito.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social #Neuroscience #BrainDevelopment #Barcelona

SENC@senc-neurociencia.bsky.social · last mo.

🗣️🧠 Ya empieza la Fred Kavli Opening Plenary Lecture de @guillelbendito.bsky.social, @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social y miembro de #SENC: “Wiring the Senses: The Dialogue Between Genes and Spontaneous Activity in Circuit Formation” ¡Un inicio excepcional para el #FENS2026 en #Barcelona! 👏

🧠 The day is finally here! Don’t miss the Fred Kavli Opening Plenary Lecture by our PI @guillelbendito.bsky.social today at 18:00h. Looking forward to seeing many colleagues in the audience! Come say hi! 👋✨ #FENS2026

SENC@senc-neurociencia.bsky.social · last mo.

🧠 ¡El #FENS2026 de #Barcelona ya está aquí! La sesión inaugural será hoy a las 16:45 y, a las 18:00, @guillelbendito.bsky.social, de @neuroalc.bsky.social y miembro de #SENC, pronunciará la Fred Kavli Opening Plenary Lecture. 📌 Programa de hoy: fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...

All set in the lab for FENS 2026. Starting Monday, we'll be sharing our latest findings. And remember: our PI, @guillelbendito.bsky.social , will deliver the Opening Plenary Lecture! We couldn't be more excited! #FENS2026 #BrainDevelopment #OpeningLecture #LopezBenditoLab #Barcelona.

Huge congratulations to @guillelbendito.bsky.social for receiving the Francisco Cobos Prize! 🏅 This award highlights years of dedication to unlocking the secrets of brain wiring and thalamocortical development. 👏 @neuroalc.bsky.social @csic.es #Neurodevelopment #ScientificExcellence #Neuroscience

SENC@senc-neurociencia.bsky.social · last mo.

🧠 Enhorabuena a @guillelbendito.bsky.social (@glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social) y Juan Pedro Bolaños (@usaloficial.bsky.social @ibfg.bsky.social bsky.social), miembros de #SENC, galardonados con el XX Premio Fundación Francisco Cobos 👏 ¡Un reconocimiento a su trayectoria investigadora!

Get ready for #SPONT26! 🚀 Our official website is up and running. Check out the program and join us for the latest on spontaneous brain activity. spont2026.umin.ne.jp @guillelbendito.bsky.social

🚨 Registration for SPONT 2026 will open very soon! May 15! 4th Meeting on Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development 📍 Atami, Japan | Oct 19–22, 2026 Stay tuned for updates and registration details! @guillelbendito.bsky.social #SPONT2026 #Neuroscience

Dejamos atrás el mes más largo del año😅y damos la bienvenida a #febrero con esta imagen de Emily Wilson @glb-lab.bsky.social #SciencePhoto_IN 🔬🧠 #Ciencia @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es

🧠@guillelbendito.bsky.social lidera un proyecto sobre cómo se organiza la corteza cerebral en áreas sensoriales. Su equipo @glb-lab.bsky.social estudia la interacción entre programas genéticos y la actividad neuronal temprana, con implicaciones para trastornos del neurodesarrollo. #Neurociencia

Hace unos días finalizaron nuestras charlas divulgativas con motivo de la Semana de la Ciencia y queremos expresar un enorme agradecimiento a todo el personal investigador que lo ha hecho posible👏 Gracias por inspirar, divulgar y acercar la neurociencia a la sociedad🧠✨ @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es

A 4-year PhD position in my lab at the @neuroalc.bsky.social its now available! @glb-lab.bsky.social

New preprint on bioRvix! We show how cortical sensory-modality identity is instructed by a combinatorial cell-adhesion and activity codes, using #snRNAseq #spatialtranscriptomics #functional imaging. Congrats to everyone on this work! @guillelbendito.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social

Combinatorial Cell-Adhesion and Activity Codes Instruct Cortical Modality Identity

The emergence of functional sensory modalities requires precise cortical arealization and thalamocortical connectivity. While early morphogen gradients broadly initiate cortical patterning, how sensor...

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Last Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Karl Farrow from KU Leuven at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Adaptive Tuning of Instinctive Behaviours” A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏 @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @guillelbendito.bsky.social @glb-lab.bsky.social

Inspiring talks at #AXON2025: @eloisaherrera.bsky.social on reusing axon guidance mechanisms to repair the adult visual system, and @guillelbendito.bsky.social (@glb-lab.bsky.social) on how spontaneous activity and genes shape sensory circuit development 👏#Neuroscience

Earlier today at AXON MEETING 2025 in Rotterdam, our PI @guillelbendito.bsky.social shared new insights into: How spontaneous activity meets genetic programs in the development of sensory circuits 🧠 Thank you to all who joined the session and contributed to the discussion! @neuroalc.bsky.social

Heading to #AXON2025? Our PhD student Lorenzo Puche-Aroca will be presenting his poster today Sept 18: 📍 Session II (#18) 🧠 Spatiotemporal multi-omic profiling of the developing thalamus identifies distinct modality-specific lineages Don't miss it! @neuroalc.bsky.social @guillelbendito.bsky.social

🚨PhD opportunity in our lab! 🎓 Interested in studying how neural activity & gene expression shape sensory cortex development? We are looking for candidates with a computational background (bioinformatics, data science, transcriptomics). @neuroalc.bsky.social @guillelbendito.bsky.social #PhDposition

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Guille López-Bendito@guillelbendito.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our new preprint on #thalamus development! 🧠 We reveal how sensory and non-sensory circuits are specified in embryogenesis #mutiomics, #spatialtranscriptomics, #lineagetracing. @neuroalc.bsky.social @glb-lab.bsky.social @jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint on bioRxiv! #singlecell #multiomics, #spatialtranscriptomics, #lineagetracing reveal 2 glutamatergic lineages arising from distinct progenitors; Sp9 regulates visual #thalamus fate! By Puche-Aroca et al. @guillelbendito.bsky.social @jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social

Early lineage divergence segregates sensory and non-sensory thalamic circuits

The thalamus integrates sensory, motor, and associative functions via distinct nuclei, yet the developmental principles driving their specification remain unclear. Here, we generate a spatiotemporal s...

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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH@neuroalc.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, the #IN_ResearchProgram ‘Building & adapting circuits into functional networks’ hosted a seminar featuring presentations by 4th-year PhD students Chiara Nappi, Francesco Dori, Ana Moreno Cerdá & Patricia Ordoño Carramina 👏 @csic.es @umh.es @glb-lab.bsky.social @eloisaherrera.bsky.social

Just wrapped an amazing talk by Teresa Guillamón-Vivancos at #CorticalDev2025! She shared new insights on how early molecular signals and neural activity interact to shape sensory specificity in the developing cortex. Thank you for the discussion! @guillelbendito.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social

🎉 Enhorabuena a la recién nombrada hoy Dra. Mar Aníbal-Martínez por su defensa de #TesisIN y felicitaciones a su directora de Tesis, la Dra. Guillermina López-Bendito @guillelbendito.bsky.social @glb-lab.bsky.social 🎉 @umh.es @csic.es @dicv.csic.es

Super proud of you Mar m. Beautiful thesis defense today! The best of luck for the future. We will miss you! @glb-lab.bsky.social