Scientists from @MRC_LMB and ESRF are looking into the connections of the neural system of squids🦑. Why squids? Find out in the video... #EBSstories ▶️bit.ly/3C5xXI6 Alexandra Pacureanu Albert Cardona @[email protected] ID16A@ESRF lightsources.org

We have validated over 3000 previously predicted cell types in the FlyWire #drosophila #connectome. Play this 4K render at 0.5x to get a feel for the beautiful precision and complexity hidden in this poppy seed brain. youtu.be/wX8z8zG6U6s FlyWire Fly Connectome

Thanks so much @EM_STP @PaulVerkade @SchwabYannick Kedar Narayan for putting together a fantastic and inspirational meeting! The volume EM and friends is a wonderful scientific community. @VolumeEM1 Gordon Research Conferences #vEMtura23 ✨️

Congrats for the poster prize! 🏆🦑👏🏻 👏🏻

Scientists from University of Washington (@casa_tuthill ) with Alexandra Pacureanu at ESRF have found how fruit flies 🪰sense leg movements. Their research is published in Neuron ▶️bit.ly/3Rgo82L

Come celebrate the launch of the BioVisionCenter at our kick-off symposium on November 9 and 10! 🎉 ema.uzh.ch/R9JJM And if you are into coding, make it a full week of fun by also joining the hackathon (November 6-8) ema.uzh.ch/RVKM2

Hard X-ray imaging of biological soft tissues symposium: crick.ac.uk/whats-on/hard-… Tuesday 17th October. - What can current #Xrays resolve? - What is at reach in the near future? - Best data strategies? Organised by Andreas Schaefer, @EM_STP and myself #CrickXray2023 1/3

📢 pls RT: just > week to apply for a T/TT group leader position with a #connectomics focus! The LMB is a wonderfully supportive place to grow a group with genuine commitment to enabling long-term research with long-term impact. Please share / contact me. #neurotwitter #STEMJobs

I'll be at SfN Mon-Wed next week - let me know if you'd like to catch up! ☕️🍩 I am also hiring at all levels in my new lab at Yale 👉kuanlab.org. If you're interested in multiscale connectomics, let's find a time to chat!

📣 We're excited to announce the opening of multiple faculty positions! Do you use and/or develop artificial intelligence methods and mechanistic mathematical models to address fundamental questions in biology? We'd love to hear from you. (Please share far and wide 🙏)

"Integrating cellular electron microscopy with multimodal data to explore biology across space and time"🔬👩‍💻🌌⏳ cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Our new review is online Cell. Big thanks to our amazing co-authors @computingCaitie Sven Klumpe Rommie Amaro Wanda Kukulski @EM_STP

Our new paper is out today in nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hope it will be helpful!! Here is our detailed sample prep using HPF and FS for TEM, FIB-SEM and chemical imaging!! protocols.io/view/cryo-fixa… Long term collaboration with Johan Decelle @SchoehnGuy and Institut de Biologie Structurale

Solving new pieces of the puzzle - how neural circuits control walking and flying.🔬 Congrats @casa_tuthill Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social for bringing all this together. rdcu.be/dLZgh rdcu.be/dLZgz

#preprint: X-rays can resolve #ultrastructure in #tissue. When studying the brain, #Xrays can detect #synapses. doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… Ana Diaz Adrian A. Wanner Andreas Schaefer The Crick PSI Paul Scherrer Institut European Synchrotron UCL Neuroscience EPFL

Last experiment for this summer European Synchrotron ID16A@ESRF with help from #cryo wizard Benoit Gallet 🧠❄️ The meditation session before proceeding to the Olympic level precision sample transfer😌

Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today

Hi Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Neurons of the same olfactory circuit in the mammalian brain share firing properties while showing individual traits. More about it today PM, poster E37 (PSTR341.09). Yuxin Zhang Alexandra Pacureanu Andreas Schaefer The Francis Crick Institute European Synchrotron PSI Paul Scherrer Institut #SfN24

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on *Tissue Microstructure Imaging* program is out! This unique meeting format offers a unifying look at tissue microstructure based on #MRI, #US, #optics, #EM , #xray, #photoacoustic, etc. Join us *July 12-18*! And please RT! 🙏 More info 👇

My PhD project is out as a preprint! We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals! doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… 🙌 Carles Bosch, Alexandra Pacureanu, Andreas Schaefer, European Synchrotron, The Francis Crick Institute