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I am very honored to receive the 2026 António Champalimaud Vision Award together with José-Alain Sahel.
I am grateful to our teams and collaborators, and to the patients who inspire our work.
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#IOB #Blindness #VisionRestoration
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Which small, ancient midbrain structure plays a surprisingly central role in how animals see, decide, and act, and has been the star of multiple recent papers from the Farrow and Bonin labs?
That's right, the superior colliculus
blog.vib.be/meet-the-superio…
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Finally it's out! nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Thanks to Felix Baier, Karl Farrow and Hopi Hoekstra! And a big thank you to all the co-authors, reviewers, host institutes and funding sources! @BramNuttin, Arnau Sans Dublanc, Chen Liu, Victoria Tong, Julie Murmann and Keimpe Wierda
How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @Felix_Baier and I, with @HoekstraLab and @FarrowLab, addressed this question by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in sister-species of Peromyscus mice. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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In a new essay in The Transmitter, Karl Farrow & Katja Reinhard make the case for evolutionary thinking in systems neuroscience. Comparative approaches = deeper insight into brain function.
Read the full essay: thetransmitter.org/systems-n…
✨ Artwork by Eoin Ryan
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New research from the Farrow and Bonin labs at NERF, just published in Current Biology, reveals how the intricate dendritic architecture of midbrain neurons helps detect and compute critical motion cues, like approaching predators or fleeing prey.
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4 PhD positions are available in the Neurobiology labs of SISSA in Trieste, Italy. We do everything from viral vectors & nanomaterials to cellular & in-vivo ephys/imaging, behaviour and therapeutics. Apply by April 12th through the online portal sissa.it/bandi/ammissione-ai….
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Out today in Current Biology: the @FarrowLab 's findings on the origins of orientation and direction maps within the superior colliculus.
🙌 Congratulations @DMalmazet, @kolofonium, @Chen___Li and Karl Farrow!
cell.com/current-biology/abs…
Haha Lichen is amazing 😂
Lichen are amazing life forms that can even thrive in outer space.
Lichen biology is also reaching for new frontiers as discussed in this recent review in CB cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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Lichen are amazing life forms that can even thrive in outer space.
Lichen biology is also reaching for new frontiers as discussed in this recent review in CB cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Around 2012, the lichen 'Xanthoria elegans' (commonly known as the Elegant Sunburst Lichen!) was attached to exterior of the International Space Station for 18 months AND SURVIVED!
With no water, no air, extreme temperatures and constant bombardment with radiation!
ALT Elegant Sunburst Lichen, bright orange, growing on a dark rock.
So excited to share our work! :)
Our study on “Pathway-specific inputs to the superior colliculus support flexible responses to visual threat” led by @Chen___Li and @kolofonium of the @FarrowLab is now out in @ScienceAdvances! science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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📢NEW PAPER
Our instinct to flee, freeze, or fight when in danger is hardwired in our brains. Still, how we respond doesn’t only depend on what we see. 👀
The @FarrowLab describes how pathway-specific inputs to the superior colliculus support flexible responses to visual threats.
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Our study on “Pathway-specific inputs to the superior colliculus support flexible responses to visual threat” led by @Chen___Li and @kolofonium of the @FarrowLab is now out in @ScienceAdvances! science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Sometimes what I leaned has to be proved wrong 🤓 – at Louvain, Belgium
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Agree. As well as supportive colleagues 😊@KatjaReinhard – at Louvain, Belgium
Few things are as influential as a supportive lab - especially a supportive PI - in creating the Ups and surviving the Downs of academia @FarrowLab
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*We are hiring!* PhD Position @BoninLab @__NERF @VIB: Interested in studying sensory selection in brain-wide neural circuits using cortex-wide neural imaging and Neuropixels recordings? Join us in this exciting project and our wonderful team (Please RT) nerf.be/join-us/careers/phd-…
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How do #zebrafish decide when faced with two threats? Analyzing #behavior and #brain activity, researchers identified the neuronal circuits that allow the fish to select from which stimulus to escape. cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08… @NeuroCellPress @amgfernandes @herwig_baier #decisions
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Applications are open for the #CAJAL course on #Optogenetics, #chemogenetics and #biosensors for #cellular and #circuit #neuroscience
📅 8-26 March 2021
🌏@bdxneuroschool
⏰Deadline: 23 Nov. 2020
👉More info: bit.ly/3j6p5Wq
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And check out the News and Views, "An ‘edgy’ new look"
go.nature.com/35VX3IX
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One gene to rule them all... in regards to certain behaviors, that is. Via @KnowableMag bit.ly/37uJdQ6