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Even Nobel Prize Winners Deal With Imposter Syndrome

Neuroscientist Ardem Patapoutian immigrated to the US, found belonging in science, and did groundbreaking work on sense of touch.

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During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756

How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪#Neuroskyence

Alexander Shakeel Bates@asbates.bsky.social · last yr.

Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord) We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Congratulations to former Ph.D. student Dr. Julianne Peláez, who has been awarded a Hanna Gray Fellowship @hhmi.bsky.social to work with Professor Paul Garrity at Brandeis on mosquitoes! Julianne is richly deserving of this award and continues to amaze me with her science. So proud of you Julianne!

HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!

Attending ASCB|EMBO? Join us for a Special Interest Subgroup on Sensory Receptors, featuring @ericmulhall.bsky.social, @rachellegaudet.bsky.social, Eric Gouaux, Maude Baldwin, Juan Du and Corey Allard, co-organized with Josefina del Marmol @delmarmollab.bsky.social #CellBio2024

How do mosquitoes find people to bite & places to lay eggs? Turns out, sensing water vapor is key. In new work we (Tang et al.) ID mosquito receptors for dry/moist air. KO'ing them drops blood feeding and renders females unable to find water to lay eggs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Preprint: Structure of an insect gustatory receptor. From Heather Frank, Sanket Walujkar, Richard Walsh, Willem Laursen, Doug Theobald, me and Rachelle Gaudet. A great collaborative effort. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/3

TIL: "Smell ... was long considered “a primitive sense that wasn’t worth studying by neurobiologists,” says xxx, a physicist at IBM Research." www.science.org/content/arti...