Neuroscientist with too many plants | Assistant professor @BU_Biology and @buCSNneuro | she/her | https://xitter.cf/t.co/VPxKahHWvO
New York, NY
Joined July 2007
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It was so fun to work on this with @gkochocker and Caitlin Lienkaemper! It is out @PNASNews. If you love olfaction and love math, this one is for you!
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doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2508439…
Happy to announce a new paper with @meg_younger and former postdoc Caitlin Lienkaemper (not on this app): When noncanonical olfaction is optimal pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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First experimental evidence of the transovarial transmission of lumpy skin disease virus by #Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) dlvr.it/TMbdww #ActaTropica
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Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the full central nervous system!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=ban…
Different from prior connectomes - it has the brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the CNS.
Full thread here: bsky.app/profile/darbly.bsky…
Introducing The BANC (Brain and Nerve Cord) connectome preprint! Thanks to all who helped make this synapse-resolution map of an adult fruit fly central nervous system possible!
Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
The BANC is publicly available in Codex: codex.flywire.ai/banc
New preprint from @darbly lab, Brian DePasquale lab, and my lab! If you love (or hate) mosquitoes, have a look:
doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.29.6…
We used TEM to describe the circuitry used for CO2 detection by mosquitoes. As usual with mosquitoes, nothing is as expected! 🌬️🦟
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🧠 Could positive memories be antidotes to neurological disorders and cognitive decline?
Pew biomedical scholar and @BU_Tweets professor @okaysteve is studying the mechanisms of learning and memory to determine just that. pewtrsts.org/42vEDvG
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Dear all, please advertise the International Chemical Ecology course to your students! It will run from June 23 to July 4 2025 at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.
Please find more infos at
events.gwdg.de/e/ice2025
Cheers, Markus
Finally setting up a Bluesky account. Same handle without the underscore
megyounger.bsky.social
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In partnership with @Pewtrusts, we are supporting the Latin American Fellows program, which helps early-career biomedical scientists receive postdoctoral training + the resources they need to start a lab in their home country czi.co/3Z5gPhV
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This is going to be such an exciting year, we are bringing some amazing faculty from all over the world. 6 weeks of hands on neuroscience. Improve your technical expertise, expand your scientific network, hear cutting edge science, and make friends for life!
Neurobiology: Mechanisms & Advanced Approaches
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@MBLNeuro
June 8 – July 21, 2025
Deadline: January 27, 2025
go.mbl.edu/neuro
ALT postcard for the neurobiology course at the MBL go.mbl.edu/neuro
It was so fun to write this review with @lforencia and Gabe Ocker on why olfactory sensory neurons might co-express receptors. New preprint is out! 🦟💫👃
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
@buCSNneuro @BU_Biology
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Great talk from Elizabeth “Betty” Hong from @Caltech on “Olfaction in Drosophila through the lens of natural odors” in yesterday’s @buCSNneuro seminar. Thanks to hosts @meg_younger and @briandepasquale!
The NEIDL @BU_Tweets is hiring! I hope there will be some great vector biologists in the applicant pool (they have all the resources you could dream of to study insect transmission)
Please RT @JobsVector @bloodSparasites @GlobalVectorHub
The NEIDL is hiring Faculty!
With programs in #immunology, #virology, #pathogenesis, and international collaboration, NEIDL faculty work to define, prevent, and treat diseases caused by pathogens with pandemic potential.
Learn more & apply here: nature.com/naturecareers/job…
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"Nothing in vector biology makes sense except in the light of @VectorBase... and now the lights are going out. 💡🔌 #SaveVectorBase
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Prof. Steve Ramirez (@okaysteve, @buCSNneuro, @BU_NPC) is unlocking the mysteries of memory. His team examines the cell networks that store memories in the hippocampus, a complex brain structure found in the temporal lobe. READ>>bu.edu/cas/arts-sciences/202…
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Meet @briandepasquale, one of our remarkable junior faculty at BU BME. His lab uses machine learning, neural networks and dynamic systems to understand brain function. WATCH: youtu.be/8q856n_apmw
It was so much fun to organize this with @BenMatthewsUBC @Joerg_T_Albert and @martaandresm ! We hope to see you all at the next one in 2 years!
It was great fun to host (alongside the dream team @meg_younger @martaandresm and @Joerg_T_Albert) a satellite meeting on mosquito neuroethology at #icn2024berlin — many thanks to the participants… it’s a wonderful time to work on mosquito neuroscience and behaviour!
