Loving this #UROut photo project from the University of Rochester LGBTQ Advocacy Committee. I am grateful to work in place where folks can bring their authentic selves to work! Happy #NationalComingOutDay

They can be creepy. They can be crawly. But C. elegans🪱 and Drosophila🪰 are actually really helpful in deepening our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate brain structure, function, and aging. #URochesterResearch #Friday13th 👉urmc.info/1dC

Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D., CDB alumna, shares how the thrill of discovery is the best part of her job. Read more about Gabriella's story (michmed.org/GyNmq) and more CDB Alumni in our 2023 Annual Report (michmed.org/mQGgQ).

After a decade of heroic effort,HHMI | Janelia FlyLight and collaborators have released the best 3,063 split-GAL4 lines we identified through testing ~77,000 combinations. The release also includes a treasure trove of image data, including images of 129,665 individual fly brains!

"Intersectionality: The Tightrope of Career Success in the Medical Ivory Tower" — "Being Black in the Ivory" Book Edited by Shardé M. Davis, Ph.D. UNC Press #BlackintheIvory🖤✊🏾🤎 **PRE-ORDER TODAY!!!** amazon.com/Being-Black-Iv…

If you are good at programming / data analysis / algorithms and like challenges read on! FlyWire is issuing its first Data Challenge. We'll fly the winner to Princeton to give a talk about their solution🧵

Fantastic feature on the one and only Professor Cassandra Extavour Cassandra Extavour Harvard University HHMI in Quanta Magazine "A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity" quantamagazine.org/a-multitalente…

What do a fruit fly🪰, taste, & robots🤖have in common? Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D. asst prof of Biomedical Genetics uses the Drosophila model system to understand how groups of neurons work together to allow the fly to decide what to eat & enable eating behavior. In a Neuro Minute🧠⤵️

FLNDR.2024-Thank you for joining our workshop in Puerto Rico!! Andrew Seeds HaspelLab eva a naumann Aurel A. Lazar Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D. Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario Eduardo J. Izquierdo Alfredo Ghezzi Maria P. Fernandez, Kanaka Rajan Ben de Bivort,Farzan Nadim,Gwyneth Card, Eric Hoopfer,Leslie Osborne, …

Lattes, cappuccinos and macchiatos, step aside. Today's #GoogleDoodle is all about the flat white. Learn more this globally beloved coffee drink that has its origins in Australia and New Zealand → goo.gle/3v2IeEQ

Have you ever wondered how C. elegans males find and evaluate potential mates? Wonder no longer! cell.com/current-biolog…

“DEI is not about giving advantages to the unqualified. On the contrary, when individuals from diverse backgrounds and identities experience respect and a sense of belonging, they do their best work, and that is something everyone benefits from.” -Linda Sealy

The fly has a full #connectome, basically a directed + weighted graph. But what are its connection ‘signs’, excitatory/inhibitory? We move towards this answer, predicting transmitters from EM! w/Nils Eckstein, vid Amy Robinson Sterling, 1/n Published Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

More with less: UC San Diego scientists in UCSD BioSciences and UC San Diego School of Physical Sciences have proposed a solution for how flies use a simple but efficient method to recognize odors. The answer lies at the edges of their sensory systems. today.ucsd.edu/story/detectin… Yonatan Aljadeff Chih-Ying Su Palka Puri

Happy 20th, UMLifeSciences ! What a treat to celebrate the impact of LSI, have a mini Bing Ye lab reunion, and hear first-rate talks from LSI faculty and alums! I’m thrilled to see that I’ve made at least one lasting mark on the institute: my image featured in the lobby🎄

This one is very close to my heart, proudly sharing our newest preprint “Comparative connectomics of the descending and ascending neurons of the Drosophila nervous system: stereotypy and sexual dimorphism”. A short summary of this project that was 4 years in the making:

My lab's first paper is now out nature nature.com/articles/s4158… Check out the cool new data since the preprint work I described a while back. Excited to have this alongside the other FlyWire connectome papers. Grateful to the team! Neha Sapkal Divya S Nino Mancini

What can you do a map of all connectivity in the brain? Using very simple biophysical modeling, we “ran” the fruit fly connectome. For any given set of input neurons, we can predict what neurons will respond.

An exciting day for neuroscience! It was my great honor to contribute to studies led by Philip Shiu and Salil S Bidaye that showcase how the connectome can be used to model the flow of neural activity through the brain and untangle circuit mechanisms underlying locomotion.

"The importance of this cannot be understated, because it really just drastically changes the field," said Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D., a collaborator on the FlyWire Connectome out today in nature. #URochesterResearch FlyWire University of Rochester URochester SMD urmc.rochester.edu/news/publicati…