A number of our users have custom installations of OLS, OxO and Zooma. Nicolas Matentzoglu has created a page where you can you tell us about your custom EBI Ontology Tools installation and your use case: github.com/EBISPOT/ontoto…

We are running a VFB User Survey, if you have used the site please consider completing this survey to help us improve it: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5HDZZRR

We still have a few slots left for our 'Exploring the connectome' workshop at Neurofly forms.gle/66dqkVt2ES4kjn…. You'll need to be registered for neurofly2020.com to attend. Early Bird registration closes on April 12th.

Hello VFB users - we would like to ask a favour. It would be really helpful to us if you could fill out our user survey: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5HDZZRR. It won't take long. It will be really helpful to us and you get to guide our future development and suggest new features.

It's not too late to join our 'Exploring the connectome' workshop @neurofly2020 with Uni Matrix Marta Costa Robbie Court Greg Jefferis. We still have room for a few more. Sign up here: forms.gle/66dqkVt2ES4kjn…. You'll need to be registered for neurofly2020.com to attend.

Thank you for the highlight! Also please check out the fantastic @elife Insight article by @stanley_heinze, which exquisitely contextualizes our work, led by first and corresponding author Ben Hardcastle. elifesciences.org/articles/68684

Excited to share our latest work - we use pan-neuronal 2 photon imaging to dissect how the #brain integrates multiple internal states to guide #food #choice! Fantastic work by @dahaniel who took on this challenging project almost solo! #drosophila biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/21

If you are experiencing issues accessing VFB using Safari see virtualflybrain.org/blog/1/01/01/f…

We have had a major network disruption so it will take us a few hours to restore all our services. sorry for the inconvenience.

What are the guidelines for describing new cell types? Surprisingly, there were not any general guidelines until last week, when our pre-print got out: arxiv.org/abs/2204.09673 (with Chris Mungall , @paola_roncaglia et al.) A thread 🧶

Some more on our FAIRware collaboration here: Towards FAIR community metadata practices by @RaphaelS101 link.medium.com/v0YYcngMMpb

Come join us @MRC_LMB, Cambridge, the birthplace of #connectomics! New group leader position (TT/T) with long-term core funding for staff, students and equipment. Interest in development/application of synaptic resolution imaging (hardware/software) encouraged. Pls RT (or DM)!

First Pool Lab pre-print: bit.ly/3yoewcy. We resolve a major pain with 3’ single-cell RNA-sequencing (10x Genomics etc.) – missing gene expression data from thousands of genes. This stems from suboptimal reference transcriptomes and can easily be recovered. T below: 1/12

Applications are now open for Structure and Function of the Insect Central Complex, the sixth in a series of Janelia-hosted meetings on this highly conserved insect brain region. 🧠 📅 Application deadline: July 7 More info 👉 janelia.org/you-janelia/co… Janelia Conferences

Thank you Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research for funding our work on #decision-making in #Drosophila *PDRA and tech posts coming soon*. Pls, RT and reach out if you might know of someone interested. I will be attending #FENS (Paris) and #ICN (Lisbon) in July. Pls, get in touch if you want to chat.

We will be at NeuroFly-2022 with a talk about all the things you can do on VFB - "Virtual Fly Brain - A hub for Drosophila Melanogaster Neural Anatomy, Imaging Data & Connectomics" (T6) and a poster on making your data FAIR and sharable with VFB (P158). #Neurofly2022

New #FlyBook chapter! Drosophila postembryonic nervous system development: a model for the endocrine control of development academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…