Nadav Shai

Meet Gaby Maimon, Director of the Kavli Neural Systems Institute (@rockefelleruniv.bsky.social‬).

In his lab, he aims to push the boundaries of brain research.🧠 At the institute, he creates opportunities to support early career researchers.

Learn more: bit.ly/3ZwId8h.
 
#KavliNeuro #KavliInstitute

A covalent recognition strategy enables conspecific mate identification The olfactory system can detect an uncountable number of volatile molecules while retaining the ability to discriminate amongst very similar ones. We identified a unique mechanism employed by insect o...

New preprint in the lab combining what we like best: insects, love, chemistry and the olfactory system! 1/8
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You got the chance to work with the most annoying creature on this planet (me) and with mosquitoes... What are you even waiting for?

Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans Mosquitoes enhance sensitivity to human body heat by a sensory compensation mechanism when their sense of smell is disrupted.

Takeshi Morita: When mosquitoes lose their sense of smell, they become better human-hunters by enhancing their heat-seeking abilities. Sensory compensation = deadlier predators.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito The female mosquito’s remarkable ability to hunt humans and transmit pathogens relies on her unique biology. Here, we present the Mosquito Cell Atlas (MCA), a comprehensive single-nucleus RNA sequenci...

@oliviagoldman.net (and I) published the first comprehensive Mosquito Single Cell Atlas. Analyzing 367,000+ cells! We found some cool stuff about sexual dimorphism and blood feeding.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@leahhouri.bsky.social : Female mosquitoes actively control mating via genital "lock-and-key" mechanics! Asian tiger mosquitoes can "pick the lock" of yellow fever mosquitoes, driving extinctions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦟 Join us at the #VosshallLab @RockefellerUniv
and @HHMI as a postdoctoral scientist! We're seeking a creative individual who is enthusiastic about our research in mosquito neurogenetics.
Apply: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Some of our 2025 cool science>

Promotional image for the BBC podcast "Curious Cases," featuring two hosts wearing 3D glasses and looking at a glowing object, alongside a portrait of Leslie Vosshall, HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer.

“Okay, they're terrible and they're beautiful, right? It’s like a three-dimensional chess game — and they are 50K steps ahead of us. Everything about them is perfectly designed to get our blood.”— @leslievosshall.bsky.social, HHMI VP & Chief Scientific Officer

🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

NYC Postdocs! Join us for Night Science at the New York Genome Center on June 2nd for a discussion on the creative process of finding novel questions. This time we hit the bar after! Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/1s9W...
@stearnslab.bsky.social @kelseymonson.bsky.social @rmassonix.bsky.social

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨

Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES!

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

Congratulations Maya!

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

Science delivers! Time & time again scientists make unexpected & important discoveries when following their curiousity! That's why we're organizing Woodstock Night Science, a reimagined conference to inspire us to new ideas.
June 10-13 woodstock.img.cas.cz
Join us! #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences

Leslie Vosshall awarded the 2025 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience - MIT McGovern Institute Today the McGovern Institute at MIT announces that the 2025 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience will be awarded to Leslie Vosshall, the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor at The Rockefeller Univers...

Kavli NSI @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social member & former Director Leslie Vosshall has been awarded the 2025 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for her groundbreaking work on the neural mechanisms of mosquito behavior. 🦟🔬

Congrats, Dr. Vosshall! 🎉 #Neuroscience #KavliNeuro
mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/l...

Thanks Naama!

Mosquito cell atlas! Congratulations on an incredibly ambitious and well executed project @oliviagoldman.net @nadavshai.bsky.social @leslievosshall.bsky.social et al !!!

BIG NEWS! The Mosquito Cell Atlas preprint is live! 🦟🧬 My first senior author paper! Massive and accessible snRNA-seq dataset and a lot of cool mosquito biology. A true collaborative achievement! #MCA
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
See @oliviagoldman.net thread here

Photos of Aedes aegypti female (left) and male (right). Numbers indicate location of collected tissues (listed in legend boxes). Photos by Alex Wild.

I am thrilled to present the Mosquito Cell Atlas! We analyzed 367K nuclei from 19 tissues in male & female mosquitoes, creating a comprehensive resource for vector biology & infectious disease research.

Plus we made some surprising discoveries! 🦟🧵

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Amazing! Can't wait for all your future discoveries

Here we go!
#newPI #WomenInSTEM

@mskeducation.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social