Precise structural and functional organization of the olfactory bulb neuropil early in development, revealed by volume EM, dense reconstruction and 2P calcium imaging in zebrafish. Great work by Ruth and others in collaboration with @michalwj.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fine ultrastructural organization of glomerular neuropil in the developing zebrafish olfactory bulb

Across animal phyla, odor information is represented in the first olfactory processing center by combinatorial activation of discrete glomeruli. To examine how this organization of olfactory processin...

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New lab preprint: @grace-padilla.bsky.social studied how zebrafish respond to chemical cues of death and decay. Brief exposure initiated a persistent state, but not through olfaction. Instead, these cues' basic pH was detected by trigeminal neurons and TrpA1 channels www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Decay chemicals activate a pH-sensing pathway to initiate a persistent state

Animals use multiple sensory systems to identify signs of danger, including dead conspecifics. Fish can identify decaying conspecifics from chemosensory cues, which prompt a long-lasting avoidance; th...

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Roman’s article in Laborpraxis explores microfluidics for multiplexed super-resolution imaging and its potential integration with Flamingo (in German): tinyurl.com/laborpraxis @romantsukanov.bsky.social #Flamingo #microfluidics #SuperResolution #microscopy #DNAPAINT #multiplexing

Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social

Flamingo at #DZG2026 in Münster: Torben presents cleared tissue imaging of crustacean heart #morphology. @tgoepel.bsky.social @morphonews.bsky.social #Flamingo #LSFM #light-sheet

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...

Shape the future of light: PhD opportunities in photonics in the Huisken lab. Excellent research network. Apply through the Max Planck School of Photonics. Deadline 1 Dec 2026. www.photonics.school/ #LSFM #lightsheet #Flamingo

Our collaborative paper with Palka Puri and Johnatan Aljadeff is now published in @physrevlett.aps.org. We find that Danionella fish move in schools by copying a neighbor's heading direction @danionella.bsky.social aljadeff.ucsd.edu journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Do wild-caught embryos develop in the same way as embryos cultured in the lab? This summer, Beke and Mette visited Luis at IMEV in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, to start exploring this question in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii. #Platynereis #annelid #Flamingo #lightsheet #cell-lineage

Huisken Lab outing to watch the total solar eclipse!

Back from the International Polychaete Conference at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt! A big thanks to the organisers and everyone who made #IPC15 such an enjoyable and inspiring meeting. I learned a lot about polychaete biodiversity. @etilic.bsky.social #annelids #polychaete

Had a fantastic time at #iPoLS 2026 @lmu.de in Munich! I really enjoyed presenting our #Flamingo project, exchanging ideas with colleagues, and catching up during the social events. Many thanks to the iPoLS and CeNS teams for the excellent organization! @huiskenlab.bsky.social

Yet another cool story just came out of the ever-so-capable hands of Roy Harpaz (@royharpaz.bsky.social). www.nature.com/articles/s41... Roy showed that larval zebrafish will adapt and get used to crowded conditions, and that they are then, later on, less sensitive about their personal space.

Roy Harpaz@royharpaz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our latest paper - nicely summarized. Together with the great Morgan Philips-Batra, Mark Fishman and @engertlab.bsky.social

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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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 · 3mo ago

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...

I’m very excited to share that our paper is now out in Neuron! 🎉

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/11 Excited to share my postdoc work from @schierlab.bsky.social and Rainer Friedrich! 🐟👃 How does the brain decide whether an odor is good or bad? In larval zebrafish, we find that odor preference is reflected in spatially cohesive neuronal domains of the olfactory bulb. 🧵

Huisken lab is at #EED2026! @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social & @bekeloh.bsky.social will show how we use #Flamingo #light-sheet microscopy to address biological questions in the annelid #Platynereis, with imaging of the developing nervous system as an example (Platy Satellite Meeting & Poster P146).

PhD opportunity in Huisken lab with Zgierski-Johnston lab @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social. Topic: Multiscale Structural Imaging of Cardiac Conduction: Linking Interstitial Remodeling to Arrhythmia at Sub-Cellular Resolution. Deadline 7 June 2026. #LSFM #lightsheet #bioimaging #engineering #biophysics

Happy to share our contribution to this new work led by @michalis-averof.bsky.social! @bekeloh.bsky.social and @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social tested membrane tags in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii — many reached the cell membrane, and several also label the developing nervous system in the larvae.

Michalis Averof@michalis-averof.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Finding molecular tags that localise fluorescent proteins to the cell membrane was the goal of our latest paper, now published in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. The tags act as address labels, sending proteins to the cell membrane, where they highlight the shape and arrangement of cells. 2/9

Honored to have two images from our lab selected among the Top 5 Research Images of the Year in Göttingen 🎉 The images will be exhibited in Forum Wissen until 10 April 2026. www.forum-wissen.de/event/resear... #ForumWissen #ScienceIsAlsoArt

New paper published! We explore how modern microscopy transforms biology from observing single examples to navigating distributions of phenotypes. doi.org/10.3389/fbin... #lightsheet #SmartMicroscopy #BiologicalVariation #visualization #RepresentativeSampling

Frontiers | Visualizing the multidimensional landscape of biological variation in modern microscopy

Variation is a foundational biological principle that has historically been marginalized—both due to limited experimental accessibility and because of ideali...

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Looking for a PhD position at the intersection of AI, imaging, and gene therapy? Apply for this position in my lab: tinyurl.com/2a2v6tvx Part of sfb1690.uni-goettingen.de to study hearing, vision, and more. Plus, you can create pretty pictures as the one below :).

An animal model for cerebral small vessel disease Zebrafish can be used to study the cellular mechanisms responsible for cerebral small vessel disease, which is a leading cause of stroke and dementia. 🔗 buff.ly/wchKmpT

New Huisken lab member: We’re excited to welcome Roman Tsukanov (@romantsukanov.bsky.social)! With expertise in super-resolution microscopy using DNA-PAINT, Roman will combine this technology with light sheet fluorescence microscopy. Exciting times ahead! #SuperResolution #DNApaint #lightsheet #LSFM

In @elife.bsky.social: Pallium-encoded valence-specific chemosensory amplification of eye-body coordination in larval zebrafish doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

I read the caption first and thought the illusion might be because the y-axis was on a log scale, but it's not! My brain was bamboozled regardless.

Huisken lab is attending Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction. Learn about our research... @spp2205.bsky.social @sfb1528.bsky.social @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction

We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction The conference brings together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral biology, computational scie...

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Shape the future of light: PhD opportunity in photonics in the Huisken lab. Apply through the Max Planck School of Photonics. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. Excellent research network. photonics.maxplanckschools.org/apply-now

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