Richard Benton

Also Jan Ache! (For organising and beard)

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Drosophila Genetic Database The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

An integrated anatomical, functional and evolutionary view of the Drosophila olfactory system | EMBO reports imageimageIdentification of a new antennal Or and an unusual hybrid Or/Ir neuron “complete” the olfactory map in Drosophila melanogaster. Numerous features of this species’ olfactory system are synthe...

New paper: one-shop stop for the Drosophila olfactory system, a great collaboration with Karen Menuz:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist Dürr et al. develop advanced genetic tools in the host specialist D. sechellia to study its olfactory system neuroanatomy. They show via single-cell labeling, tracing, and quantitative comparison of o...

Happy to see this out now:
Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

In a team effort with @bentonlab.bsky.social 's lab we establish new genetic tools in #drosophila sechellia and compare single central brain neurons.

Comparative single-cell transcriptomic atlases of drosophilid brains suggest glial evolution during ecological adaptation How do diverse brain cells change over evolution? By comparing single-cell transcriptomic atlases from ecologically-distinct drosophilid species, this work identifies changes in the composition and ge...

Creating the first comparative single-cell brain atlases for 3 Drosophila species was a huge effort by Daehan Lee in @bentonlab.bsky.social. With it, we describe glial cell evolution potentially associated with D. sechellia's specialization.

Explore the atlases: scope.aertslab.org#/DmelDsimDse...

Single-nucleus transcriptomic atlases of D. melanogaster, D. simulans, and D. sechellia central brains. Top left: phylogeny of the drosophilid species studied in this work, and images of reference central brains for these species (all female). Top right: Workflow of the single-nucleus RNA-sequencing of drosophilid central brains. Bottom left: tSNE plots of D. melanogaster (red), D. simulans (green) and D. sechellia (blue) central brain cells from an integrated dataset after RPCA integration. In the bottom right plot, all cells from the three species are merged. Bottom right: tSNE plot of the integrated and annotated datasets. Cells are colored by the 11 annotation groups. Unannotated cells are colored gray.

How do #brain cells change over #evolution? @bentonlab.bsky.social compare #scRNAseq from ecologically distinct #drosophilid species to identify changes in composition & gene expression of different cell types, revealing higher divergence in #glia than #neurons @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4js7Rms

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Group Leader - Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated scientist to establish and lead an independent research laboratory at the EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome. EMBL provides a unique environmen...

Want to start an independent research group? ...with core funding, outstanding facilities & a curiosity-driven culture? Join us at @embl.org

We are recruiting across research themes, inc (epi)genomics, human dev bio, predictive modelling & neurobiology👇

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Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus!
Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia.

Hotel Cormoran in Villasimius, Sardinia.

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅
We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!

Are you searching for an opportunity to start your lab? Apply and come join a phenomenal group of supportive and brilliant scientists at Developmental and Molecular Biology @einsteinmededu.bsky.social

We would love to meet you 🤗

Interesting in applying for independent #fellowships? Know anyone who is? Check out our (@bristolbiosci.bsky.social) updated support information: www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...
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Multilayer regulation underlies the functional precision and evolvability of the olfactory system Sensory neurons must be reproducibly specified to permit accurate neural representation of external signals but also able to change during evolution. We studied this paradox in the Drosophila olfactor...

New pre-print #2: Jérôme Mermet profiles living and dying lineages in the olfactory system to begin to explain how these sensory pathways are robustly specified but also evolvable: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Great collaboration with Karen Menuz's lab. See also here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

An integrated anatomical, functional and evolutionary view of the Drosophila olfactory system The Drosophila melanogaster olfactory system is one of the most intensively studied parts of the nervous system in any animal. Composed of ~60 independent olfactory neuron classes, with several associ...

New pre-print: an one-stop shop for everything you wanted to know about the fly olfactory system: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last few days to apply for this position. The LMB, is a wonderful place to grow a group with amazing, collaborative colleagues, core funding and a rich intellectual environment in Cambridge.

Great opportunity to get funding to come to Cambridge!

Fly neuro people: has anyone tried the Ting lab’s scFLARE (or variants) for labelling active neurons in Drosophila? Thanks.