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Marla Feller

@mfeller.bsky.social

Neuroscientist, retinal circuits, neuro development. UC Berkeley http://fellerlab.squarespace.com/

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Interoception 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Neurobiology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social

>20 review articles on Interoception

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

25.11.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.

24.11.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
LFD/AIM Workshop 2026

Announcing the Inaugural Fluorescence Advanced Imaging Research Workshop
sites.uci.edu/aimlfdworksh... A joint effort between UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, bringing together the cutting edge talks of AIM and the intensive hands-on experience of the LFD Workshop. #microscopy #fluorescence

18.11.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot stop thinking about this video....heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing.

06.11.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Support Basic Needs at Berkeley! Help UC Berkeley students access food during the government shutdown.

There is a matching campaign today for the Berkeley Basic Needs Center to help @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social students dealing with reduced CalFresh (SNAP) benefits. Give if you can! crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580

06.11.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.

04.11.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background Vertebrate eyes first evolved in water, where spectral content rapidly fades with distance. Zebrafish exploit this loss by antagonizing cone signals to suppress the background, pointing to distance es...

Excited to share our paper now published in Cell!
'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background'

Huge thanks to @neurofishh.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social

@cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social

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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

04.11.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

fantastic - congratulations!

04.11.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Run-roh! Dr. Karina Bistrong’s last day in the lab. It was celebrated Scooby-Doo style πŸΎπŸ” She’s off to NYU for a postdoc with the exciting new lab run by @alicemosberger@bluesky.social β€” onward to solving the mysteries of motor systems!

01.11.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’”πŸ§ 

31.10.2025 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

miriam! thanks for letting us know the sad news and for the great photo.

19.10.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Neuroscientists say No Kings

18.10.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Appreciating the art with fellow @annualreviews.bsky.social for vision science board members Roland Fleming and @shinyanishida.bsky.social .

11.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

din’t miss the video!!

09.10.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AMAZING!! πŸŽ‰πŸ‘πŸ‘οΈπŸ§ πŸ€“

09.10.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Vision Science is now online. The most read article so far is "Behavior-Specific Computations in the Vertebrate Retina" arevie.ws/46HMEjd @serenariccitelli.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social @katrinfranke.bsky.social

TOC: arevie.ws/3Wklava

30.09.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The NIH ordered me to stop my β€˜dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis β€” but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

Timely piece on the importance and safety of β€œgain-of-function” research, from my brilliant PhD advisor Sarah Stanley www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

06.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a must read for anyone interested visual cortex plasticity - a fresh look at some textbook models and a fun read. congratulations to the authors!

28.09.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Representing @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #Neuroscience chair @danfeldman.bsky.social and @standupforscience.bsky.social at annual #BT5k fundraiser for brain tumor research. GO BEARS!

06.09.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Miller Fellowship UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

If you are a PhD student planning to graduate in Spring 2026, think about applying for a miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship. And if you are interested in development/neural circuits, I am happy to sponsor your nomination! email me....

28.08.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

20.08.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

loved it

15.08.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pupil size modulation drives retinal activity in mice and shapes human perception - Nature Communications The pupil is known to assist retinal adaptation to light level changes. Here, the authors find a mechanism for how the pupillary light reflex drives monocular and binocular retinal activity in mice an...

The lab's first paper is out!

We find that pupil constriction in mice drives strong retinal activity in vivo, and that humans can also perceive pupil-shaped stimulus. This has repercussions for anybody using pupillometry.

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

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuro

09.08.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A giant YES for @gliangel.bsky.social for this incredible honor. Great news for Angel, the lab, and the greater neuroscience ( neuroscience.berkeley.edu/grad ) and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social communities. We look forward to being a part of this fantastic community. πŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ

07.08.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!!
Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations
πŸ“„https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1
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05.08.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Turns out that the β€œloudest” neurons are not always the most relevant ones. Great article about a fascinating and important result by @hayleybounds.bsky.social , graduate of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social neuroscience.

01.08.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks to @rachanads.bsky.social and the rest of my awesome lab for hosting lawrencehallofscience.org/visitors/tee... for a day in lab.

01.08.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.

27.07.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Hey πŸ§ͺ I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.

15.07.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 3
Call for Applications: ECR Advisory Board | Journal of Neuroscience

🧠 Join the JNeuro Early Career Advisory Board! πŸ§ͺ

A great way to learn about the world of publishing and support other early career researchers by sharing your perspectives!

Apps due July 18

www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

08.07.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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