Vincent Croset

Control of top-down and bottom-up information by serotonin: a combined experimental and computational approach at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Control of top-down and bottom-up information by serotonin: a combined experimental and computational approach at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Fully-funded PhD with me and @srikipedia.bsky.social to study serotonin functions with cutting-edge experimental-computational approaches in a #NeuroAI framework.
Based at @durhampsych.bsky.social & @newcastleuni.bsky.social

🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰ Deadline: 27 Feb 2026

More info👇

I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..

A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...

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Congrats to all the grant recipients!
Extra happy for Burak and Dennis from my lab.
And in this context: we’re hiring—open postdoc positions in the lab. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested.

Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and @wolfhuette.bsky.social groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We have two advertised fully-funded PhD positions to work on memory or disease models in Drosophila! Please check the SWBio DTP website for more information and reach out if you are interested:

www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...

Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila Consolidation is a time when labile memories transition to a stable form. Malaise learning in Drosophila reveals consolidation to also permit memory updating. Flies taught to associate one of two odor...

@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology.
Apply here by Nov 30th!
(thanks for reposting)

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A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1

A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...

Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our collaborative PhD project with Adam Dobson (Adam.Dobson@glasgow.ac.uk) on interorgan signalling in the ageing gut. Please contact Adam If you are a highly motivated student wanted to work on a super exciting Fly project.

You still have some time to apply!
don't miss this opportunity

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Highly recommended 👇🏻

Just a reminder...

Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci Understanding toxin resistance in insects is key to appreciate niche adaptations and for pest management, but remains challenging due to complex genetics. To investigate how Drosophila sechellia evolv...

New preprint, taking our lab into ecotoxicology, with a nifty combination of experimental evolution and CRISPR screening in cells, to help unravel the still-mysterious resistance of Drosophila sechellia to its favorite fruit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm looking for teaching materials to help encourage cellular biology students to drop AI illustration and instead sketch during lectures—as well as while conceptualizing the future of food—without fear of lacking hard art skills. Suggestions, anyone?

Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social‬, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!

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#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact Andreas.Prokop@manchester.ac.uk

🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic #psychedelics?
We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes.

Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Interested in the neural circuits underlying memory formation?🧠🤔 See below a postdoc position advertised by the Boto lab at the University of Bristol 👇

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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So how do we get started?

This is all sadly very true. We urgently need to put together a strategic committee to generate a portfolio of recommendations about how to initiate a reflection about these issues.

‼️🔬 I am looking for a PhD student to investigate the molecular signatures of memory engrams in Drosophila.

🎓 Fully funded 4-year PhD position (BBSRC NEEDL)
📍 Durham University, UK

More details and instructions to apply: tinyurl.com/durhamPhD

#Drosophila #Neuroskyence #Neuroscience #Memory

Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)!

Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:

Highly recommended! 👇🏻

Post-doctoral position available to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Ideal candidate with skills in: Drosophila, behaviour, imaging.
Advert out soon. Meanwhile, if interested, pls contact me.

A plug that my lab is currently recruiting a postdoc. 5 years of funding, the lab has steady funding for the next 8 years, and no active attempts to burn down the scientific enterprise in your potential new home.. Plus the occasional bagpipe player rocking a kilt on the street.

Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership

Looking for a keen PhD student to investigate how experience shapes the brain, and/or mechanisms of central nervous system regeneration, plasticity and degeneration. Apply here: select "Biosciences", then my projects. Fully funded.
Deadline 12 January.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/act...