Andrew Seeds

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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...

Economic Budgeting for Endowment-Dependent Universities Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

If you wonder why doesn't Harvard use its endowment: the answer, of course, is that we do. A major source of Harvard's annual budget is the endowment investment return.

For anyone seriously interested in how university endowments work, an excellent wonky reference:

www.nber.org/papers/w32506

YouTube video by Allen Institute From Datasets to AI Data Dreams | Refik Anadol on Science Matters

Watch Refik's inspiring talk on our YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpb7...

There are still a few days left to apply for the San Juan Winter School on Connectomics and Brain Simulation!

Apply by October 24th! sjcabs.com

MIT’s McGovern Institute and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences welcome new faculty member Sven Dorkenwald - MIT McGovern Institute The McGovern Institute and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences are pleased to announce the appointment of Sven Dorkenwald as an assistant professor starting in January 2026. A trailblazer i...

Excited to share more widely: I am starting the Dorkenwald Lab at MIT (McGovern Institute + BCS) in January 2026. We study the organizational principles of neuronal circuits using connectomics.

And we are hiring postdocs & tech associates! dorkenwaldlab.com/join

Stowers Institute recruits renowned developmental and evolutionary… David Stern, Ph.D., brings groundbreaking research on insect–plant interactions for next-generation pest control to the Institute.

NEWS🎉 We’re excited to announce @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Investigator David Stern will join the Institute from Janelia Research Campus. His lab studies how aphids transform plants at the genetic level, uncovering secrets of #evolution & new strategies for pest control. @hhmi.org bit.ly/4np96Fb

Congratulations!!

San Juan Winter School on Connectomics and Brain Simulation Two-week intensive course on connectomics and brain simulation in San Juan, Puerto Rico. December 29, 2025 - January 10, 2026.

Applications are now open for our course on connectomics & brain simulation.
Organizers: Sven Dorkenwald (MIT), Stefanie Hampel (UPR), Andrew Seeds (UPR), Sebastian Seung (Princeton), and Srini Turaga (Janelia).
Interested? Apply here ➜ sjcabs.com

Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.

We will miss you, Ed.

Wow! Congratulations and enjoy!

Sounds great!

Congratulations on this impressive work!!

How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.

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

🧪#Neuroskyence

A comprehensive mechanosensory connectome reveals a somatotopically organized neural circuit architecture controlling stimulus-aimed grooming of the Drosophila head Animals respond to tactile stimulations of the body with location appropriate behavior, such as aimed grooming. These responses are mediated by mechanosensory neurons distributed across the body, whos...

Congratulations to the Seeds/Hampel Lab on their new manuscript on BioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉🏆🏆🏆We're delighted to announce 3 new @royalsociety.org Fellows here in Zoology!

Dr Gregory Jefferis, Prof Claire Spottiswoode and Dr Marta Zlatic are all now FRS.

Many, many congratulations!

Read more: bit.ly/3H4rCCk

It's been 3.5 months since this experiment on scientific reasoning. The improvements in SOTA models since are remarkable.

Here's OpenAI's o3 model's first attempt at reviewing my 2017 R01-A1 submission. Would you do a better job?

📢 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

Today we welcomed 50 students from UPR Ponce to the Institute of Neurobiology in Old San Juan! They explored our research and learned about the building’s unique history. 🧠🏛️ #NeuroBoricuas #ScienceOutreach #UPRPonce #OldSanJuan

Exciting news - Drs. @andrew-seeds.bsky.social, Sebastian Seung, and Stefanie Hampel just received Simons Foundation and NSF awards to launch the San Juan School on Connectomics in 2026. Stay tuned - it's happening!! 🎉🧠🔥

So great to see this in print! Congratulations to Johannes and team!

Yay - the extensive review Ansgar Büschges and I wrote on insect motor control and the many things insects can teach us about our own nervous systems just came out in Physiological Reviews @apsphysiology.bsky.social. Check it out - it's free: journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10....

Congratulations to the lab of Dr. Cristina Velazquez for the acceptance of their paper "Comparative mRNA Profile Analysis from NAc of Adolescent Male Mice after Binge-Like Alcohol Exposure Eliciting Deficits in Context Fear Extinction Learning".

Aminergic and peptidergic modulation of insulin-producing cells in Drosophila The combination of receptor expression analysis, optogenetics, physiological approaches, and connectomics reveals how a heterogeneous population of insulin-producing cells in Drosophila integrates div...

Our third paper on the neuronal control of insulin release in flies was published in @elife.bsky.social!
This was a great team effort spearheaded by Tina Held, Rituja Bisen and our collaborator @zandawala.bsky.social.
You can find the paper here:
elifesciences.org/articles/99548. 1/3

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!

Why Are We Professors Doing “Research As Usual” While AI Systems Advance at Breakneck Speed? Introduction

Why Are We Professors Doing “Research As Usual” While AI Systems Advance at Breakneck Speed?
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Dr. Seeds (Director) gave a presentation about the history of the Institute of Neurobiology and its ongoing research.

Picture of students from UPR Bayamón, Dr. Seeds (Director of the Institute of Neurobiology - front left), and Valeria De La Rosa Reyes (Assistant Professor at UPR Bayamón and member of the NeuroBoriquas - front right).

NeuroBoriquas organized a visit for UPR Bayamón students to the Institute of Neurobiology, where they explored Neuroscience and discussed shared facilities and equipment. 🔬🧠 #NeuroBoriquas #Neuroscience #NeurosciencePuertoRico @neurobio-upr.bsky.social @andrew-seeds.bsky.social

Hands-on training for students by Dr. Jonathan Crooke on our new Sutter CRISPR instrumentation. Participants in the workshop: Yanilis Velázquez, Yaniushka Fernández, Alexa Negrón, Fabiola Pagán, Arelys Rivas-Jiménez.

Come see Patrick Emery's talk!

Honored to begin as Director @neurobio-upr.bsky.social , UPR Med Sciences. After disasters, pandemic & cuts, we’re rebuilding—expanding into computational neuroscience & ramping up conferences/courses. We’ll seek partners & donors; reach out to join us! Stay tuned for more.