Drosophila neuroscientists, join the new community at FlyWire.ai to trace your brain circuits! Together with Sebastian Seung and the amazing FlyWire research team, we segmented all the cells in a whole-brain EM stack by AI. 1/n

Super excited to share my first first-author paper with @pollyp1, out now on bioRxiv. We made male mosquitoes that are attracted to humans!! (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do sensory systems rapidly evolve to promote speciation? We investigated the evolution of sex pheromone systems of 99 Drosophila species. Super excited to share my paper w/ Rongfeng Cui @darissambaya Hany Dweck هاني دويك Bill Hansson Markus Knaden!! (1/7) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today's headlines: Undead neurons make headless flies walk! Nervous systems evolve by changing which and how many newly-born neurons die! Flightless flies are fly! Read all about it in our paper now out in eLife elifesciences.org/articles/59566 (a thread)

Neural Network Organization for Courtship Song Feature Detection in Drosophila biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Now out in Neuron: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

My first, first-author paper is out today from the @JustinMCrocker Lab at EMBL with collaboration with @David_L_Stern and @richmann10 and HHMI | Janelia . Hear how we used robotics and automation to mutationally scan a Drosophila developmental enhancer! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our new study in Science Magazine , led by @shengjin_xu. We report CaRMA imaging-- a method that combines deep-brain in vivo single neuron dynamics in mice with detailed gene co-expression information in the same cells across multiple behavioral states. tinyurl.com/y68ubwls

Thank all the team members so much for their excellent work. Also, appreciate the help from the Janelia community HHMI | Janelia . Especially, the help from Janelia Experimental Technology (jET) and histology teams.

Before the 2016 election, I didn't believe that Trump could be elected, and I regret not doing everything I could to ensure it didn't happen. Here's what I'm doing to make sure this doesn't happen again:

Packing for #Dros23? If you have professional clothes that are unused, or used but clean, #Dros23 is collecting donations for Broadway Youth Center Howard Brown Health an integrated health and social services organization that serves the Chicago LGBTQ+ community

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How do the peripheral and central nervous systems evolve to switch the valence of a sex pheromone, from anti-aphrodisiac to aphrodisiac, in species-specific mate recognition? Check this beautiful work led by Rory Coleman and Vanessa Ruta (honored to make a small contribution)!

Ancestral neural circuits potentiate the origin of a female sexual behavior biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Happy to share a recent work from my lab, led by @dawnschen and Minhao Li: The origination of a novel social behavior + the function and evolution of female sexual behavior. We had so much fun working on this project with several jaw-dropping moments!

Also, this is my first fruit fly paper and the project I spend most of my time during my PhD!

Excited to share our new preprint on the evolution of Drosophila courtship song, led by @Justin_T_Walsh , Dajia Ye, and Ian Junker: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am thrilled to start an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at @DartmouthCollege in July 2024. We will study genetic & neural basis of behavior evolution & how behavior affects evolution. Recruiting talented & enthusiastic scientists to join the lab!

Excited to release this new pre-print (biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…)🎉  In a complex visual environment, how do flies (like below) know what to focus on? We uncovered neuronal pathways through which social states (like aggression🥊 and courtship) modulate visual processing. 1/