How does the brain differentially encode signals from the visceral organs to generate our internal senses? My postdoc paper nature reports the coding of organs by Ca imaging and reveals a visceral homunculus in the brainstem that depends on inhibition. nature.com/articles/s4158…

It is generally accepted that fat tissues “talk” to the brain via secreted hormones. Our amazing student timwang, co-mentored by Li Ye, discovered that somatosensory neurons innervating adipose tissue act as a break to counteract sympathetic activity. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to share our newest work that is published online in Neuron today! cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Great teamwork by Xxx , Pablo Serrano, and Xuming Yin during the tough covid time. Also thanks to Xiaochen Sun and Yingxi Lin for sharing the NRAM virus with us!

i still don't believe something until i can hold it in my hand (i'm a deeply distrusting individual). but our issue of Developmental Cell with Lucas's gamma secretase paper is finally here! hard copies! it's so pretty and i'm so proud of the authors and the artist Alison DePew, PhD!

We're hiring! (and we have interesting windows) Come join us! Tenure track assistant professor in Neurobiology, open to all kinds of applicants 🪰🕊️🦋🐁🐭🤸‍♂️🪱🐒🐟🦐🦜🐞🦉🐦 Neurobiology neurobiology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty…

Two mosquito species in their larval stage catch prey by shooting their heads away from their bodies like harpoons, mouths open, and reeling in their victims with a thin neck membrane nyti.ms/3ypfmVT

New #openaccess research from Richard Benton Richard Benton and co. characterizing #Drosophila #olfactory subsystems identifies a new protein - Osiris 8 - required for #insect #pheromone detection. bit.ly/3SVhL2E #odorant #scRNAseq #RNAseq #transcriptomics

So privileged to have Nick as my mentor and colleague 🥰 A Chain of Inspiration: Nick Spitzer’s Golden Anniversary at UC San Diego today.ucsd.edu/story/a-chain-…

[1/11] David Tadres and I are excited to share new research doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… where we show that olfactory sensory neurons undergo silencing due to depolarization block at ethologically relevant odor concentrations. #olfaction #chemosensation #behavior

Remarkable! Ricca’s factors as mobile proteinaceous effectors of electrical signaling cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

applications are due TOMORROW! MARCH 15TH! come spend the summer at cshl and learn everything about drosophila neurobiology! we've got an aamzing slate planned with a cavalcade of star faculty! don't miss out. RT and DM me with any q's! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?c…

Congratulations to Palka Palka Puri for receiving the UC San Diego GPSA Interdisciplinary Research Award! Pictured with Palka are Chih-Ying Chih-Ying Su and I looking and feeling very proud.

Today the lab was greeted by innocuous appearing white adapters plugged in lab bays and offices. We inquired and learned the university is monitoring 'occupancy', i.e. when we are/are not in. Be on the lookout! Big brother is watching!👀

Building the FlyWire #connectome from the FAFB brain was a massive team effort. But neuroscientists need to find their favourite neurons in this huge dataset. We report an indexed parts list, systematically annotating all 127k neurons (Schlegel et al biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) 1/7

New lab pre-print from @MShahand and co. Evolution of circadian behavioral plasticity through cis-regulatory divergence of a neuropeptide gene biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper using reconstructions from NeuroMorpho.Org: arxiv.org/abs/2307.01499

The array of olfactory receptor neurons in flies is highly structured. Our collaborator Chih-Ying Su Chih-Ying Su showed previously that receptors are electrically coupled, a coupling that affects animal behavior. nature.com/articles/natur… 2/

#PLOSBiology: Functional unknomics: Systematic screening of conserved genes of unknown function dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

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