I had so much fun hosting Hiroki R. Ueda at the Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute with Alain Chédotal. Hiro is pushing ever further our understanding of sleep, while creating revolutionary methods! (Have you heard of CUBIC?😉)

This was one of the best meeting I ever attended to. Amazing speakers and still floored by all the work on « unconventional » animal models!

Very proud of Alba Vieites Prado , former postdoc of my lab, setting up her lab at CiMUS !

This is going to be so useful for our investigations of NeuroVascular plasticity in this region!

Interested in brain mapping and #connectomics , from synaptic level (EM) to whole-brain projections ( #lightsheet )? Sign up for our Cajal School on Connectomics in Bordeaux next September! Deadline is Apr. 17th cajal-training.org/on-site/connec…

🥳🎉Chaleureux accueil donc aux lauréat(e)s 2023 qui rejoignent le Cercle FSER cette année ! Hâte d’entamer ou de continuer le travail sciences société ensemble !
Anna Beyeler 🇺🇦
Vivien Béziat
PMDelaux @[email protected]
Nicolas Renier
Et félicitations !! 👏👏

Deadline extended to Apr. 17th!

Want to learn how to do clearing, light sheet, and brain mapping with ClearMap and mesoSPIM: Clear Images. Big samples. Open source. ? Sign up for the connectomics course in Bordeaux next September, the deadline is Apr. 17th! cajal-training.org/on-site/connec…

Our institute, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute is hiring an Imaging Core Facility ops Director! Our facility covers advanced microscopy techniques, both optical and electronic, with over 30 systems. Please RT, candidates can email me for Q&A, or apply at [email protected]

Peptidergic neurons in the Edinger Westphal nucleus of pregnant mice enable maternal preparatory nesting before pups are born.
Read Onur Iyilikci & Marcelo Dietrich 马塞洛's preview of this work: bit.ly/3svcUKH
And find the original study here bit.ly/3kCzWus

Last week to register!!! You are a PhD student or postdoc interested in neurodevelopment, do not miss this fantastic opportunity !! Do not wait!!

cajal-training.org/on-site/neuro-…

A brilliant study from Thomas TOPILKO and colleagues from the Nicolas Renier group demonstrates that preparatory nest building in pregnant females relies on the activity of peptidergic neurons in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus. Here is our take (w Marcelo Dietrich 马塞洛)…sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Not hungry? Your friendly gut bacteria might tell you so. It was great to collaborate with Ilana Gabanyi from INSTITUT PASTEUR (an old friend from Rockefeller University) on this story! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Large-scale use of large-scale in titles. (an otherwise excellent set of papers!)

About 140 years ago Edinger and Westphal described a small brainstem nucleus involved in the pupillary light reflex.
Thomas TOPILKO et al Nicolas Renier discovered using 3D imaging/ClearMap & more, that this nucleus also controls nesting behavior in mice 🪆🐭disq.us/t/44x9wl2

I am expecting a baby in a couple of weeks, so our second story from the lab feels very close to home! Congrats to Thomas TOPILKO and all authors! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My colleague Julia Sliwa at the Paris Brain Institute just wrote in Science Magazine a great piece on #social #neuroscience science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… !

Check out the full issue on imaging in Development ! Alba Vieites Prado and I have a review on #clearing applied to Development. Hope this and rest of the issue can help fellow developmentalists to jump on the bandwagon of 3D imaging! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/14…