New preprint! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Most vertebrates use rods for night vision, yet their specialized downstream circuits (rod-BCs, A2, and A17 ACs) is only found in mammals. What about non-mammals? We investigated this using scRNA-seq, ephys, serialEM in #Zebrafish

Want to hear about #openscience in Africa? Want to learn about how to use your #academic 📚 skills for a good cause? Some of our volunteers were at the ERM in #tübingen yesterday and will be there today. Come find us! 🌍🔬 #erm2023 #globalresearch

Monday, British afternoon: Elated to be continuing our Sussex Vision series within World Wide Neuro 🧠🗺️ with Axel Borst talking about "How fly neurons compute the direction of visual motion"! Tom Baden Here: youtube.com/watch?v=jEedr0…

🧠What is the functional role of cortico-thalamic feedback in visual processing? ✨Using data efficient variant of generalized linear models (Spline-GLM) we model activity in dLGN biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ Ann Kotkat Yannik Bauer Ziwei Huang @CellTypist Laura Busse 1/7

How many pixels do we need to record the functional activity of neurons in calcium or voltage imaging? We developed a novel functional imaging pipeline that compress the optical signal in each ROI into a single pixel. Are you interested why we developed this method?🧵(1/7)

Interested in voltage imaging, but don’t know whether to go with a 1-photon or a 2-photon system? We compared the approaches. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Take a look at our new publication in iScience journal! Not all olfactory bulbs are organized the same way! In larval Xenopus (🐸), the glomerular odor map to amino acid odorants is neither stereotypic between animals nor chemotopically organized. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper(s) alert. In two linked papers I argue that we have fundamentally misunderstood the ancestry and evolutionary history of retinal circuits for (colour) vision. Part I NatureEcoEvo rdcu.be/dwCEj Part II PLOS Biology doi.org/10.1371/journa…

With Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's generous support, we've empowered 140+ African scientists in the past 2 years and strengthened BioRTC - Nigeria's first not-for-profit open access core facility. We are on a mission to develop a generation of scientists locally #ImagingTheFuture 🔬💡🌍

Don't forget to apply for our Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning Basics course . This year hosted Carnegie Mellon University Africa Kigali, Rwanda🇷🇼on the 8-24th July. Application deadline: 15th of February 🚨Follow TReND-CaMinA to get all the updates on the course!🚨

Coming Monday, British afternoon: Elated to be continuing our Sussex Vision series within World Wide Neuro 🧠🗺️ with Dmitri "Mitya" talking about "Reimagining the neuron as a controller: A novel model for Neuroscience and AI"! Tom Baden Here: youtube.com/watch?v=pvji1I…

Job open as Manager for our research facility - really important in supporting biomedical work at Sussex

Sussex Life Sciences is welcoming applications from promising scientists who want to come to Brighton to establish their own research programmes through competitively-awarded fellowships, including in Neuroscience SussexNeuro . For details see sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gatewa…

So excited to be a recipient together with @giorgiogilestro of one of these CZI Science grants to study the evolution of sleep!

How does computation in the brain evolve? In a new review I argue that studying retinal circuits across species may just hold some key answers: shorturl.at/wFMT9

Postdoc open in my lab at SussexNeuro in wonderful Brighton to investigate neural activity in mice during goal-directed whisker-guided behaviour. 2-photon imaging and/or computational analysis. DM, or email [email protected]

Excited to share my new paper "Spike distance function as a learning objective for spike prediction" accepted to #ICML2024 done with @MawaSeifert, Carola Yovanovich and Tom Baden. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.01966 Webpage: kdoran.com/spikedistance/ Made possible thanks to The Leverhulme Trust!

#zebrafish peeps: Can anyone recommend a high quality fluorescence-enabled stereoscope with camera (for screening & taking pretty pics) that does not break the bank? We need a new one and so far all quotes have been pretty outrageous. Thanks!