Take a look at the first auditory connectome! New paper utilizing FlyWire from Christa Baker et al in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… Shoutout to @Drexel_Pretzel who created the drosophila serenade illustration in our graphical abstract. Murthy Lab

So proud of Christa Baker - get in touch to do a postdoc in the Baker lab NC State University - Christa is a fabulous mentor, scientist and role model and her lab will be a trailblazer in solving the neural mechanisms underlying acoustic communication in flies.

Also excited to announce that Benjamin Cowley is starting his own lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the Fall. If you want to work on neural network models of the brain, this is the lab to join!

yessss it's #BINW22 !! I'm Sama Ahmed, finishing my postdoc in the Murthy Lab at Princeton Neuroscience Institute and starting my lab at UW Psychology in 5 weeks ! We test how circuit interactions constrain behavior by studying how flies multitask ! Black In Neuro 🧠 #BlackInNeuroRollCall

Officially out today Current Biology! Check out Murthy Lab collaborative effort to map and record from fly auditory neurons to build the first auditory wiring diagram in any system. cell.com/current-biolog…

The fly central brain synthesizes sensory stimuli into decisions and actions. For the first time, ALL 46,944 branched and far-reaching neurons of both hemispheres of the central brain have been reconstructed and are available via FlyWire. join.flywire.ai

Excited to announce that I'm starting my group UCL with Wellcome funding in 2023. We'll investigate audiovisual integration with the latest electrophysiology and optogenetic tools. DM me if you'd like to join as a postdoc, student, or tech. Or say hello at 329.23. #SfN2022

Flies are highly visual animals. That’s obvious to anyone who has ever tried to swat one. So it should be no surprise that eyes are so prominent on the fly head.

We've updated our preprint on finding one-to-one mappings of DNN neurons and real visual neurons of fruit fly. --> 2x silenced data with new LC31 neuron type --> more LC neural recordings --> FlyWire connectome --> knockout training simulations Enjoy! tinyurl.com/5n7t6tpv

This might make you think twice next time you reach for the fly swatter. The whole brain wiring diagram of the fly! All 140,000 neurons and their 50M synapses are available to explore in Codex, the Connectome Data Explorer: codex.flywire.ai #sfn23

We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2024 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference. The preliminary program is now live: grc.org/neural-mechani… We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 19-24, 2024.

How are neurons activated by sensory stimuli? For the past century, the only method for addressing this question has been neurophysiology.

Don’t miss out on the Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication GRC - this May in Maine!