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Excited to share our new paper in Nature! 'Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology' explores how neurons in the zebrafish optic tectum exhibit diverse functions and shapes despite similar transcriptional profiles. rdcu.be/d9GVM

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🚨Paper alert 🚨 Our latest research is out in nature! We reveal a surprising new role for the proteasome in innate immunity: generating antimicrobial peptides that can directly disrupt bacterial membranes. 🦠⚡ Weizmann Institute Systems_Immunology_WIS 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵👇

Many congratulations to Maya Voychek and co. for crafting such a fantastic preprint ( biorxiv.org/content/10.110… ) and for being an outstanding community member, mentor and super mom! 1/2

Check out this amazing pre-print: recodings of brain-wide dynamics reveal an hierarchical organization of behavior: "information about major actions is broadcast via a distributed manifold, to enable nesting of granular motor patterns within those major actions" Itamar Lev

A non-vesicular Argonaute protein is transmitted from nematode to mouse and is important for parasite survival biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_molbio

על פרסים שמתנשאים על ערבים... הייתה לנו שיחה ממש מעניינת על המון נושאים שבד"כ לא מגיעים אליהם בפודקסטים רגילים, תקשיבו! השיחה המלאה כאן: youtube.com/watch?v=OOEvby…

That's dramatic (and cool): "archaea species can also form multicellular tissue–like structures when compressive forces are applied... ... These results establish multicellularity as a feature of all three domains of life"science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Reactivation of retrotransposable elements is associated with environmental stress and ageing nature.com/articles/s4157…

WOW!! A new pre-print rethinking how mosquitoes, the world's deadliest animal, mates. Amazing work from Leah Leah Houri-Zeevi (former PhD student in my lab) conducted in Leslie Vosshall PhD's lab. Huge implications! Leah found that contrary to what was previously thought, mosquito mating

🔥🔥🔥OUR NEW PREPRINT: Slowing and reversing aging? Nature does it, here we show how! Age deceleration and reversal gene patterns in dauer diapause. Huge congrats to Kristy Totska, João Barata, Walter Sandt and David Meyer biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Flatworms, but make it high-res. 🧠🪱 This new protocol combines tissue expansion + light-sheet microscopy to reveal planarian neural and muscle anatomy in 3D, at single-cell resolution. #Planaria #Microscopy #DevBio elifesciences.org/articles/10110…

📄 New paper: "A Minimum Description Length Approach to Regularization in Neural Networks" with Orr Well, Emmanuel Chemla, Roni Katzir, and Nur Lan . We explore why neural networks often struggle with simple structured tasks. Spoiler: our regularizers might be the problem. 🧵

Divergence in neuronal signaling pathways despite conserved neuronal identity among Caenorhabditis species sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last year, we posted a preprint providing the first genetic evidence that the Harbin skull likely belonged to a Denisovan: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Today, DNA evidence provided the final proof: …encedirect-com.ezproxy.weizmann.ac.il/science/articl…

Molecular profiling of adult C. elegans glia across sexes by single-nuclear RNA-seq cell.com/developmental-…

rRNA intermediates dictate nucleolar architecture in C. elegans biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A super cool story from Ethan and the Oded Rechavi , O2-sensation-related, neuronal small RNAs regulate germline DNA damage and fertility in high temp!🔥

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has