1/6: New publication from the lab: βPlastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neuronsβ by Ryosuke Tanaka (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social) and Ruben is available here:
rdcu.be/eX1L4
1/6: New publication from the lab: βPlastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neuronsβ by Ryosuke Tanaka (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social) and Ruben is available here:
rdcu.be/eX1L4
Deadline for this post-doc position in my lab extended to Jan 11th!
12.12.2025 15:01 β π 8 π 18 π¬ 0 π 0
Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park!
βSpecialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gillβ β
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Donβt forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)
Slow-mo video of zebrafish mating. Credit to
@zebrafish007.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday π§ͺ
Having personally sworn for years that insects donβt use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do β¦
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
βBlame your parents if you canβt pay enough attention." At least when you are a zebrafish! Our new study on attentional switching together with Kumaresh Krishnan, @paulapflitsch.bsky.social , @zwitscherarmin.bsky.social and Florian Engert is out in Science Advances:
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
The final version of our paper on how ants and possibly other insects use a crazy mechanism involving extensive transcriptional interference to regulate odorant receptor expression is now open access in my favorite journal, @currentbiology.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Apply now for FBM #PhD #Fellowships in #Life #Sciences β join one of the Facultyβs leading laboratories.
π¨ Application deadline for fellowships: October 6, 2025.
β‘οΈ www.unil.ch/news/en/1756...
@unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @dee-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social #fbm #unil
Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information:
π doi.org/10.1101/2025...
BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23β25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynotes & invited speakers π
Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of π΄ππ¦π¦π± across π²π¬ ππ½π²π°πΆπ²π of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social
Jim was an incredibly gifted teacher. Still remember his fundamentals in Neuroscience. Also, great, dry sense of humor.
23.08.2025 15:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Latest from the lab. Beautiful work from Joanna Lau and a fantastic collaboration with James Fitzgerald.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Can't wait to read this preprint from Misha Ahrens and team. Calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, in every cell in the body! Amazing.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
If youβre interested in ants, olfaction, gene regulation, or all of the above, hereβs a new preprint from the lab for you. It describes an unorthodox mechanism of transcriptional interference by which ant olfactory sensory neurons produce a single functional receptor.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
ALT text: A UMAP representation of a single cell RNAseq dataset from the Drosophila ventral nerve cord as well as images of the Drosophila nerve cord connectome and different stages of fly development.
Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes π§¬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns?
To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome πͺ°π§
#preprint thread β¬οΈ1/8
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
A stylised hand holds a smartphone from which colourful digital pages flow outward, surrounded by icons of books, screens, and learning materials on a dark blue and purple background.
π‘ Whether youβre a new student, a lab leader or a decision-maker at an institutional level, you can now find free tools and guidance all in one place on our new Learning Resources page.
With everything in the thread below and more, get learning today!
buff.ly/sIpX5gU
Latest from my lab: we identify and characterize the function of binocular neurons zebrafish larvae use to hunt prey; sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Congrats to Richard Tian, Gewei Yan and Tommy Lam @tkclam.bsky.social!
27.06.2025 14:38 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
How does the brain work in natural scenarios, in multi-animal societies of wild animals? π§ π§ͺ π¦
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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π¨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! π§΅β¬οΈ
Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...
CIG- UNIL
Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home....
More details for how to apply are here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
We are looking for a new neuroscience colleague at the tenure track assistant professor level! All details below! π§ π₯ All details here: www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
21.07.2025 10:05 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations Silvana! π
09.07.2025 07:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and Andrew Lesak on their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! They use HMM to identify two interaction states in #zebrafish: one visual for long-range interactions and one lateral line for quick, close interactions.
Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCYh3QW8S...
Heart disease is the worldβs leading killer, and tackling it demands decoding the multi-gene networks driving disease progression π«
Learn how researchers used Medaka fish plus high-throughput heartbeat imaging to build a biomarker toolkit for early screening.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We are proud to present our new preprint βCorrelative light and electron microscopy reveals the fine circuit structure underlying evidence accumulation in larval zebrafishβ, just posted on bioRxiv (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). (1/10)
17.03.2025 10:12 β π 51 π 21 π¬ 11 π 2
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Starting this summer, and after 11 wonderful years in Munich, the Portugues Lab will be starting a new adventure at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) (nbb.cornell.edu) at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
