Join us at SPONT26 – the 4th Meeting on Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development!📍 Atami, Japan 📅 October 19–22, 2026 Keynote: Prof. Carla Shatz. Looking forward to great science and discussions on how spontaneous activity shapes the developing brain. #SPONT26 #Neuroscience #Neurodevelopment

The @neuroalc.bsky.social invites applications for two permanent research positions (Científico titular @csic.es , Tenure-track) to build independent programs in a collaborative, international environment. We welcome applicants from all demographic backgrounds 👇 in.umh-csic.es/en/ofertas/d...

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

Christmas Lunch day! So proud of this team. For a new year full of great discoveries! @glb-lab.bsky.social

🚀 New from the lab! How do sensory cortices "know" whether they’ll become visual or somatosensory? 🧠 We uncover early modality-identity genes in cortex, some set before thalamic innervation via cell-adhesion codes, others refined by thalamic activity. @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social

Lopez-Bendito Lab@glb-lab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

Sensory modality-specific wiring of thalamocortical circuits — a Review by Teresa Guillamón-Vivancos, Mar Aníbal-Martínez, Lorenzo Puche-Aroca, Francisco J. Martini & Guillermina López-Bendito @guillelbendito.bsky.social @glb-lab.bsky.social #neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sensory modality-specific wiring of thalamocortical circuits - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The use of transcriptomic technologies has led to advances in our understanding of thalamocortical targeting during development. In this Review, Guillamón-Vivancos et al. discuss these advances in the...

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🚨New Review! We explore how thalamocortical circuits wire up by sensory modality — from genes to spontaneous activity and plasticity. @NatureReviewsNeuroscience @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y

📢 We're hiring a PhD student! Join the @LopezBenditoLab (IN-UMH/CSIC) to explore how spontaneous neural activity and genetic programs shape sensory cortical development. 🧠Funded by @AgEInves.📍Alicante, Spain. @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social 🌐 lopezbenditolab.com

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...

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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🧠✨ Save the date! SPONT 2026 — 4th Meeting on Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development 📅 October 19–22, 2026 📍 Atami, Japan 🇯🇵 Join us for cutting-edge science in a stunning coastal setting! #Neuroscience #BrainDevelopment #SPONT2026

Kick-off of the NeurotechEU symposium 2025 in Bonn! Looking forward an exciting day of new neurotechnologies development! #NeurotechEU

📢📢The @glb-lab.bsky.social at @neuroalc.bsky.social is offering a Project Manager position. Don't miss out on this opportunity. Call open until May 25 🗓️ More details 👇 in.umh-csic.es/en/ofertas/r... @csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es @guillelbendito.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring! A Research Project Manager position is open in our lab at the Institute of Neuroscience (CSIC-UMH, Alicante)! Join us in exploring how spontaneous activity shapes sensory circuits 🧠✨ @glb-lab.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Jobs #ResearchManager 📅 Deadline: May 25

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

@guillelbendito.bsky.social espectacular la charla de hoy en el @incyl.bsky.social !! Q suertudos hemos sido

Muchísimas Felicidades al Prof Juan Lerma por su ingreso en la Real Academia de Ciencia Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales de España! @raciencias.bsky.social Enormemente merecido! @neuroalc.bsky.social @jlerma1.bsky.social

Comenzamos! Gracias al AYUNTAMIENTO de MUTXAMEL por este reconocimiento!

Super proud of this massive work led by Mar Anibal from the lab. Early rescaling of barrel maps is possible and thanks to a transcriptional switch in thalamic neurons! Check it out! @neuroalc.bsky.social

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

Using a mouse model born without its principal whiskers, researchers found that the brain reshapes its sensory regions before birth. The area for upper lip whiskers expands, compensating for the missing input. 📷 @naturecomms.bsky.social @csic.es @umh.es @erc.europa.eu @fmiscience.bsky.social

🔥A new study led by @guillelbendito.bsky.social at @neuroalc.bsky.social is now published on @naturecomms.bsky.social 🙌 Researchers have discovered a brain plasticity mechanism that allows the reorganization of the sense of touch during development More info 👇 in.umh-csic.es/en/articulos...