So grateful and excited for my postdoctoral work to be supported by Schmidt Science Fellows!

Joining this incredible community of interdisciplinary scientists has already been really inspiring✨

Check it out -- it's sandra nakandakari higa !!!! 🥳🪩

Very excited to have contributed to this structure-function story with Catherine Schretter @[email protected] and Gerry Rubin – male and female flies appear to have repurposed the same underlying circuit to mediate two different sex-specific social behaviors! ⚡️

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/

Who would've thought our study would make it to the big screen? 🤯Thanks for the spotlight, CNN! 🎬

🎩 off to the patient for sharing her experience & to the incredible clinical team around Darin Dougherty!

Read the full story here: edition.cnn.com/2024/03/15/hea…

In living tissues, millions of cells communicate with each other within fractions of a second. How are these dynamic intercellular interactions orchestrated?

A new method offers a way to address this challenge go.nature.com/3VakAAW

If bringing this study to life was the icing on the 🍰, then this fun 🎄-project-unexpectedly–turned–cover art is undeniably the 🍒 on top!

🙏🙏 to the muses Andreas Horn Patrícia Zvarová & Pablo Reinhardt for plotting this together & infusing science with fun–team effort all the way!

Online now @nature the final version of Sandra Nakandakari’s universal LIPSTIC paper! Thanks to Mempel Lab and the other reviewers for their very useful input. *Special* thanks to Kamphorst Lab for stepping in to help us out!

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) maps dysfunctional frontal cortical circuits in dystonia, Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome, and OCD, which helped to guide stimulation sites in other patients

Barbara Hollunder Ningfei Li Andreas Horn netstim

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Intrigued to discover more about how DBS reveals & therapeutically impacts on the dysfunctional circuits behind different brain disorders, from OCD to dystonia? 🪄🧠

So were we! Join us on this deep dive from core to cortex – now out Nature Neuroscience: nature.com/articles/s4159…

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Preprint alert! 🐜 🧬
The first from my PhD with Daniel Kronauer, with an assist from Taylor. We discovered an unusual case of “unselfish” meiotic drive while studying asexual reproduction and its genomic consequences in the clonal raider ant. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Benjamin Fait Thanks Benjamin Fait!

#VosshallLab is hiring! Come join us as our Lab Manager. Vibrant, inclusive, friendly lab, exciting science, and SNACKS.
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I am very excited to share the final story of my PhD, online now as a pre-print in bioRxiv, where we dissect the opposing effects of antibody-feedback and memory T cell help on recall germinal centers (GCs). 1/n

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have our first single-cell paper on the ant olfactory system! 🐜
We show that ants regulate odorant receptor expression from large tandem arrays in a very different way than what is known in fruit flies and mice!
Daniel Kronauer Dominic Frank Patrick Piekarski Rockefeller University

I'm excited to share my postdoc work in the lab of Leslie Vosshall PhD! We characterized a novel cross-modal sensory compensation mechanism that mosquitoes use to maintain their strong attraction towards humans🧵: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Male-male interactions shape mate selection in Drosophila biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Very excited to have been part of this story!

The Sorrells Lab is hiring a lab manager! Exciting projects on mosquitoes, excellent benefits through HHMI, and great colleagues. Please RT hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…