Preprint just dropped!🎙️We discover molecular mechanisms of the excruciatingly painful sting of the Scarlet Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis). Title: "Multiple mechanisms of action of an extremely painful venom." 🧵 1/N biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Are #Drosophila accessory medulla neurons oscillating coherently? Check out our preprint Neuronal Synchronization in Drosophila, featuring DUAL patch clamp recordings from the great Florencia Fernández Chiappe and the impeccable theory by oscillation experts Marcos Wappner y Luis Morelli (1/7)

Super-excited to reveal our latest fluorescent voltage indicator, ASAP5, now online Neuron! ASAP5 features higher responsivity and kinetics, allowing detection of single synaptic transmission events. The link gives free access until 2024.11.09: authors.elsevier.com/a/1joYd3BtfH9B…

Your periodic reminder that #Drosophila is the coolest, most efficient model for neurobehavioral studies but make sure your tools are clean

The components of a synapse revealed by expansion microscopy of a single synaptic contact. elifesciences.org/articles/91931…

How individual insulin-producing cells in the fruit fly brain work together to produce a concerted response to metabolic demands and internal state changes. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Now we need to patch them all! 🤭

A study in fruit flies, assessed as fundamental by reviewers, investigates how concussions early in life affect neurodegeneration later in life. elifesciences.org/articles/97908…

what a morning for basic science!!! the worms do it again with groundbreaking work on microRNA. so grand to see such supportive, curious, and amazing colleagues like gary and victor so richly awarded. huzzah!!!

Filled with gratitude for such brilliant mentors and the opportunity to reconnect at #SfN24 🧠

New paper Nature Methods ! Miniaturized headmounted neural devices are great to study the brain in naturalistic behaviors, but are limited in their performance. We engineered ‘exoskeleton’ assists for mice to carry large recording devices with them: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Wow congratulations to everyone on this team, especially Xintong and Pascal!! Dopamine dynamics are dispensable for movement but promote reward responses nature.com/articles/s4158…

Out today: BioNumPy is a Python package for efficient array programming on biological data. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Researchers at Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science are taking creative approaches with a super-resolution microscope to advance their neuroscience investigations in different directions. brown.edu/news/2024-12-1…

Guess I'm a doctor now. Thank you everyone who has helped me along this journey.

We are seeking candidates for a fully funded postdoctoral position (3 years) in the Shaner Lab at UCSD. The successful candidate will lead projects focused on genetically encoded biosensor design, validation, and optimization. adc-nice.org/postdoctoral-r…

The sweetest words an academic can read 🤩 📑 stay tuned!

Successfully defended my dissertation! Dr. Dakotah Tyler PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics

For a living, I got to study a sliver of the world that truly fascinated me. What a privilege ✨ PhD in Neuroscience from Brown University ‘25