Scott Waddell

Spatial transcriptomics in the adult Drosophila brain and body Spatial transcriptomics of adult Drosophila brain and body sections determined the spatial expression for 150 genes, which identified the locations of unknown neuronal cell types and transcriptional d...

elifesciences.org/articles/92618

Final extension until March 17 ☘️ at 12 noon Dublin time for abstract submission. Existing submissions are published on the website.

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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Hmmm.

Yeh! However, so long ago that it’s now forgotten.

The same @mikekrashes.bsky.social that now works in more furry animals showed that inhibiting aversive dopaminergic neurons released appetitive memory expression. PMID: 19837040.

Pleasing to see that our Krashes et al 2009 study in the fly is the way it is in the mouse in 2024/5.
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The Janelia Atalanta plasmids provide a simple and efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homology directed repair platform for Drosophila Homology-directed repair (HDR) is a powerful tool for modifying genomes in precise ways to address many biological questions. Use of Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)...

Here's the paper
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram - PubMed Associating multiple sensory cues with objects and experience is a fundamental brain process that improves object recognition and memory performance. However, neural mechanisms that bind sensory featu...

We are currently repeating key experiments of our multisensory learning study. We have communicated with the journal and will correct literature as necessary and as soon as possible. Please get in touch if this impacts your work. Thanks to those that raised a flag. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37100911/

Thank you Giorgio!

All these groups and things. How do I find people?! 😂

I’m here. Just don’t yet quite understand how it works!

Wassup Mike? I’ve now moved here full time too

What’s the sculpture?

Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences - Nature In Drosophila, a subpopulation of reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons antagonizes punishment-encoding neurons and can override punishment or hunger cues in favour of reward-seeking behaviour.

It took us 11 years but: Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences

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

Whut?

Hello Bluesky peeps. Will start to post here from now on to see how it goes. Before anyone asks, my profile isn’t AI generated. It’s the real me 😂