Prof. Biology, Brandeis. We study how flies/mosquitoes sense. Grateful to be part of @BrandeisMCB and @BrandeisNeuro. (R. Busby (logo) & C. Zhu).
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Attending ASCB|EMBO? Join us for a Special Interest Subgroup on Sensory Receptors, featuring @EGouaux15625 @RachelleGaudet Maude Baldwin @MPIforBI Juan Du @DuLuLabs @CoreyAHAllard and Eric Mulhall, co-organized with Paul Garrity @Nemvec @ASCBiology @EMBO #cellbio2024
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Ava Towle '26 studies how fruit flies sense temperature through G-Protein Coupled Receptors in the Shapiro Science Center lab, highlighting some of the exciting research on campus this summer. #Research #Brandeis
📸 Gaelen Morse/Staff photographer
ALT A diptych photo where the left image is that of biology student Ava Towle ’26 looking into a microscope at a lab in the Shapiro Science Center. The right image has a green hue and we see macro shots of fruit flies.
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My autobiography is now published on the @NobelPrize website. It covers both my personal and professional life, highlighting the decisions and events that have had the biggest impact. I appreciate the opportunity to tell my story. Hope you enjoy reading it
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Sugar detection in 3D: Structure of an insect gustatory receptor dlvr.it/T6K3Fs
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Friday's retreat of the Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders brought together neuroscientists and related researchers from UP and @PennStHershey with guests like keynote speaker @Nemvec.
See all the pics on our Flickr album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkHiL
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We are back to business! The very first in vivo voltage imaging in Huang lab. Look at how this neuron changes firing mode. This simplistic voltage scope only costs ~$50k, mostly @Thorlabs parts. Let me know if you want a full part-list to build your own one.
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University Professor Eve Marder ’69 & Professor Emeritus Gregory Petsko have each received the National Medal of Science from President Biden, the highest recognition the nation bestows on scientists & engineers.
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Please RT: We have a fully funded PhD project to understand the role of piRNAs in mosquito immunity. Come and do your PhD with us! 🦟🦟
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New preprint: Suguru Takagi (@d_takagii) and Tom Auer (@tomtom_auer) - with many great collaborators - solve a simple (but actually hard) problem: how does having more sensory neurons for a given odour help an animal? The answer was unexpected ... 👇
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Building the FlyWire #connectome from the FAFB brain was a massive team effort. But neuroscientists need to find their favourite neurons in this huge dataset. We report an indexed parts list, systematically annotating all 127k neurons (Schlegel et al biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…) 1/7
We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!
Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai/
Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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How do mosquitoes make sense of the hundreds of odorants present in human smell? We report @NatureComms a combinatorial code for odors in the #mosquito #brain. Experiments led by @pranjul8765 @IITKanpur and funded by @India_Alliance @serbonline @IndiaDST🧵
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I said some stuff.
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Professor Scott Waddell FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He studies molecular, cellular and neural circuit mechanisms of memory and motivation using genetic approaches in Drosophila. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/scot…
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This paper is now out! Great job by all authors and especially @nathanCSharris
and Sam Bates. Preprint #tweetorial is below. Many thanks to @CurrentBiology
for a fast and fair review process.
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Thanks to a renewal of our NIH grant, Jim Haber’s lab has an opening for a postdoc to work on the fidelity of DNA repair in budding yeast. Experience in genetics and molecular biology, but not necessarily in yeast, is required. Brandeis is in Boston MA suburbs. [email protected]
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I wrote an appreciation of Hermann Muller's 1922 paper about what the properties of a gene must be. Amazing insights.
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Now on-line from @natehimmel and myself:
Structural screens identify candidate human homologs of insect chemoreceptors and cryptic Drosophila gustatory receptor-like proteins doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85537
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For decades, fuzzy, monogamous prairie voles have been the poster children for the cuddle-inducing powers of oxytocin. But new research has found that the little mammals might not even need their signature hormone to partner up, @KatherineJWu reports: on.theatln.tc/63o87XO