Carlos Ribeiro

Missing #EDRC2025, but the lab will be giving three talks: Ibo on the taste and feeding connectome on Friday at 15:00; Silvia on the microbiome and metabolic stress on Saturday at 10:30; and Rita on identifying the structure of metabolism at single-cell resolution in the same session. Enjoy!

PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪

Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters A neuron type downstream of circadian pacemakers regulates daily sleep and activity timing in Drosophila.

New publication from our lab, in Science Advances:

Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations!!!!

Unified mass imaging maps the lipidome of vertebrate development Nature Methods - uMAIA is an analytical framework designed to enable the construction of metabolic atlases at high resolution using mass spectrometry imaging data.

Happy to share our work on uMAIA, a framework for building metabolomic atlases from mass spectrometry imaging.
With uMAIA, we mapped the lipidome of zebrafish development, uncovering spatially organized metabolic programs .
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#developmentalbiology #MSI #lipidtime

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

The #FKNE Leadership and Soft Skills Online #Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Applicat. deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 👉http://rb.gy/6dhmxh

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You have two discovery seminars on IRs back to back. ;)

Today is a good day.

Journalists should know that words matter. Can we please consider replacing “mainstream” with “evidence” whenever appropriate. It has a completely different connotation and in science mainstream is very often due to all evidences pointing in that direction. Especially for vaccines. Thanks!

attention 🪰folks. many of you received a survey from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social about potential future sites of the US Fly meeting. We are excited for #Dros26 Chicago, but future sites are in question, for many logistical reasons. GSA is hard at work planning, but we need to hear from you. please RT!

Link?

I would do the same if the alternative is RFK Jr.

🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨

First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️

Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA

🔔 Stay tuned!

Thank you for the invitation to present in the presidential symposium and for putting together such an amazing meeting. Bravo!

I had a fantastic time sharing our work at the #ssib2025 @ssibsociety.bsky.social meeting in Oxford. What a fantastic community discussing everything you ever wanted to know about feeding. Made many new friends and I learned a lot. I hope we stay in touch! Thanks for the invitation!

Goool

a man in a white suit and blue tie is looking down ALT: a man in a white suit and blue tie is looking down

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Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Brace!

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Indeed. Indeed. And for shepherding the speakers through the demanding late night program.

It was fantastic to hear and discuss the amazing science being done in the #Drosophila neuronal circuits field. Also great to catch up with my mates from the Dickson lab years. As a field we are building the future together. And it is extraordinary! 🙏, Nilay Eugenia Marion and Richard for organizing

Congratulations! The new Advanced Grant winners are great news.
But yet again, many scientists - around 260 - with ground-breaking ideas were rated as excellent, but remained unfunded due to a lack of funds at the ERC. Hope that more funding will be available in the future!

Heading to one of my favorite meetings where the #Drosophila neuronal circuits world will come together to discuss science in Crete. We will celebrate the golden age of our field and there is so much more to come. Sad that the stete of the world is stopping some of us joining. Science will prevail.

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!

When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️

The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar

bit.ly/3HvWSum

Yessss