A review on retinal feature representations and their uses in the brain. Hopefully, it is useful to some. bit.ly/3MVEvMJ

(1/10) Excited to share our cryo-EM structure of gas vesicles, providing buoyancy to microbes (and recently also genetically encoded ultrasound contrast to scientists)! tinyurl.com/4hfy6x59 Congrats to everone involved: Jakobi Lab 🇳🇱🇵🇹🇿🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇮🇳🇮🇹🇻🇳, Wiel Evers, Dion Terwiel, David Maresca.

We are thrilled to share our latest work of the atomic structure of the central apparatus (CA) within the famous "9+2" architecture of motile #cilia. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Why would you ever think of looking at that!? Very creative work from Rosenberg and colleagues. Definitely worth a read! nature.com/articles/s4146…

How many neurons do you really need for invariant visual representations? Not many! Read more from my thesis work, out now in the latest issue of Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog…

Embryonic retinal waves! In new study led by superstar student Christiane W. Voufo, Andy Quaen Chen and Ben Smith, a team led by @atiriac1, we describe waves at early stages of development – long before proper neural circuits are present in the retina. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It’s finally out!! My first first author paper has been published on eLife! I’m very proud of the work I’ve done with @atiriac1 Dr. Marla Feller and Andy Quaen Chen. Special thanks to Ben Smith and Rongshan Yan DPhil for the added support! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor judit, together with Mea (josc) 🐙 and Angelique Allen, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

The Rhodopsin Article in Nature is out ! nature.com/articles/s4158…

The retina contains numerous cell types. To what extent are retinal cell types conserved across species that greatly differ in visual needs? Our new preprint attempts to shed light on this question by integrating single-cell transcriptomic data from 17 vertebrate species.

New paper out in PNAS about how the ability of vertebrates to see is in part due to a gene we acquired from bacteria. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Huge congratulations and thanks to authors Chinmay Kalluraya Alex Weitzel, and Brian Tsu! More below: 1/

Thrilled to be part of this elegant piece of work led by the Kobilka lab. smFRET, MD sims, and NMR to unveil the key role of the intrinsically disordered carboxyl terminus of GPCRs. Finally, out Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… Congrats to all authors! More to come...

Congrats to MCB's Dr. Marla Feller for being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences American Academy of Arts & Sciences! 👏🎉 amacad.org/news/2023-memb…

We are celebrating the election of Don Rio and Marla Feller to the National Academy of Sciences. UC Berkeley MCB Dr. Marla Feller

A little late on this, but our paper on seven genomes inside one single cell is out! This endosymbiosis involves two bacterial endosymbionts, a phage and a single celled alga. authors.elsevier.com/a/1g%7EYb_LsQS… #phage #endosymbiosis #protists (artwork by Ben Darby)

Now online: Raquel Alvarez-Ocana's (Raquel Álvarez Ocaña) main PhD work, with key contributions from @MShahand, @tomtom_auer, and Vijayaditya Ray in Nicolas Gompel's lab! nature.com/articles/s4146…

The actin cytoskeleton plays multiple roles in structural color formation in butterfly wing scales biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

I am beyond excited that our story where we address the modalities of membrane tension propagation in cells is out Cell ! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This is the fruit of an amazing collaboration with Weiner Lab The Bustamante Lab Turlier lab

We are hiring a lab manager! Come join us – you'll get to learn anything from mosquito olfaction to cryoEM while working closely with a fantastic group of scientists in a young lab. Interested? Apply below, or spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…