Greg Jefferis

With @megyounger.bsky.social's lab, et al., we present the first connectomics work in the disease-vector mosquito Aedes aegypti, revealing how its brain is wired to detect host cues.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#Neuroscience #Connectomics #vEM #VectorBiology 🧪

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

Research Group Leader in Chemical/Synthetic Biology at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

We are looking to recruit a tenure track group leader in the field of Chemical/Synthetic Biology (in the broadest sense) to lead a research program within the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry ( www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW809/r... ) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

Alan Turing Institute told to focus on defence or lose funding - Research Professional News Science secretary threatens to pull defence R&D funds, while reforms could see EPSRC grant revisited

Big story breaking this evening.

Alan Turing Institute told to focus on defence or lose funding.

The science secretary Peter Kyle has threatened to pull defence R&D funds, while reforms could see EPSRC grant revisited.

Free to read.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Volume rendering of the ctenophore aboral organ reconstructed by volume EM, showing the gravisensory balancers and the four quadrants.

In our new preprint we describe the synaptic #connectome of the nerve net in the ctenophore gravisensory organ. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661250v1 #biology #neuroscience #ctenophore #vEM

🎉We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social‬ will be the 3rd Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolution.

We look forward to welcoming him next year!

Thanks @markdhumphries.bsky.social looks very nice. Getting a 404 in that link. neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ?

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...

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

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Professor Edward Bullmore FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work has focused on developing new tools for analysis of the complex network organization of the human brain, and understanding how schizophrenia & other major mental health disorders arise. royalsociety.org/people/ed-bu...

🚨This is a HUGE escalation and a deliberate effort to use the government against Trump's enemies. Weaponizing the Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification against Harvard to punish them for pushing back is a new low — and needlessly punishes thousands of innocent students.

Many thanks, John. I think especially recognises the collective impact of our group’s collaborative work.

📢 New paper alert!

Comparative connectomics of Drosophila descending and ascending neurons

A new publication in Nature from our Drosophila Connectomics group and Jefferis group @jefferis.bsky.social @mrclmb.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @nature.com

Job alert!

Cambridge Neuroscience Administrator (Part Time, Fixed Term)

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51034/

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🚀 I’m thrilled to announce I’ve started a tenure track position as Professor for Animal Neurophysiology at @jlugiessen.bsky.social As of April 1, the Münch Lab is open! 🔬🧠🪰 We’ll study chemosensory processing, multisensory integration & feeding in flies. 🎓 PhD position coming soon, stay tuned!

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Dear Droso peeps, we re-announce the upcoming JEDI meeting that will take place at Château du Feÿ from June 3rd to 5th in 2025.
You'll find a prelim program flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202...
We're hoping to gather about 45 of more or less young droso PI to reboot the community.
-> Register Now!

Note that we are considering both regular tenure track appointments and potentially also more junior appointees (~research fellows) in this recruitment round. Please share/apply/contact with any queries. Thanks! Greg.

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.

An illustration of two plates of cells, with a slight difference in the size of one of the organelles.

Can you spot the difference between the cells on the left and right?

Read on for the solution (and a preprint announcement)… 👇

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Experience Postgrad Life Sciences in @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
Paid 8-week research internships, for undergraduates in their penultimate year at a UK/Irish university. Aimed at talented students who might not otherwise feel they can easily access summer research opportunities.

🚨fully-funded PhD position🚨 to study cognitive effects of neuroinflammation using neuropixels and behaviour in mice 🐁

Deadline 12 Jan 2025

www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Contact for more info: Ana.Gonzalez-Rueda@glasgow.ac.uk

my lab (www.tuthill.casa) at UW is hiring a research assistant/tech. basic scope is to apply machine learning/computer vision tools to measure and model 3D animal behavior and mechanics. we are a diverse, collaborative, curiosity-driven group.

Apply: uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidat...

🎓 Looking for a new PhD student to investigate the neuronal and molecular basis of learning and memory in #Drosophila!

This is a competitive, but fully funded position. More info here: tinyurl.com/drosobrain 🧠 🪰

Deadline: 8th January 2025

#Neuroskyence
#Memory
#Neuroscience
#Dopamine

🖐️🙏

Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵

Diverse species of Drosophilidae

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

Obviously you’ve also been ringside — and then in the ring — during much of this @tuthill.bsky.social, but that’s my take for now.

@darbly.bsky.social has been and continues to do amazing work with more limited resources at HMS based on the platform he and @dddavi.bsky.social laid down with Clay Reid. But I think absent those substantial Janelia / other private investments starting 10y ago, we’d be years behind.