Being raised alone makes flies afraid of one another! But exposure to other flies makes them become sociable. Victor Lobato Rios found and recorded specific learning circuits in the brain that regulate this transition. Read more in our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At the Institut de France, to receive the 2024 Medal-Prize in integrative biology of the French Academy of Sciences. Very thankful for this distinction and particularly thankful to my team as nothing would be possible without them.

We found that if we isolate flies before they eclose, and keep them living alone, they’ll display a constellation of fearful reactions the first time they encounter other flies. Contrary to the sociable behaviors shown by flies housed in a group.

Interested in understanding how the brain makes decisions? Come and do a PhD with us! MIBTP Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research funded #PhD opportunity. Please, get in touch with questions. findaphd.com/phds/project/h…

New work stemming from an amazing collaboration with addison_webster and John Campbell using a combination of rabies mapping and single cell sequencing to identify a GLP1R-expressing local input to AgRP cells that curbs appetite rdcu.be/d2gB5

Thank you Katrin Vogt for highlight our work! Lovely piece

Excited to uncover the mechanistic basis of feedback-driven computations in the cortex, inspired by connectomic and functional data supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant #ERCCoG. Thank you for the support European Research Council (ERC)

Avance de científicos argentinos: muestran que las neuronas olfativas reciben información de otras áreas del cerebro, como las vinculadas con contextos espaciales y esto favorece la discriminación de olores 👇 eldestapeweb.com/sociedad/cienc…

New from Shiko Parnas' lab: Classical & operant learning in *Drosophila* rely on distinct neuronal pathways, challenging current paradigms! Moshe Parnas Unstoppable science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Incoming Assistant Professor Alert! I will be joining the amazing people of Bucknell Biology in their Neuroscience program in Fall 2025!! Chowdhury Lab will study how deep sleep affects social behaviors- Website coming in Spring!

🔴 Live from #Budapest! #FENS is joining FENS Kavli Network scholars at the "Towards a Strengthened European Cooperation in #BrainHealth Research" Conference, where they speak on "Discovery #neuroscience research as a foundation for brain health." 🧠

Pls retweet! Just five more days to apply for this cool (admittedly, I'm biased) and fully-funded #PhD project in our lab! #jobalert ovgu.b-ite.careers/56yvk

Congratulations Meital Oren-Suissa, Julijana Gjorgjieva and Alex Cayco Gajic!👏

Worm reveals role of autism-linked gene tinyurl.com/26qpru4m Thank you, The Naked Scientists , for your interest in our work. It is particularly helpful and reassuring to highlight the work of Argentine scientists during these times of dismantling of our science system. eLife - the journal

In time for the new year! Our single-cell dataset of male and hermaphrodite brains is online! & a freely available website weizmann.ac.il/dimorgena/ A Blueprint of Sex-Specific Neuronal Regulation in the C. elegans Nervous System at Single-Cell Resolution biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nice news coverage of our work! Velvet ants have the Swiss Army knife of venoms sciencenews.org/article/velvet…

Where do the dopamine hits does from? A new reward center in the brain is discovered (yes, single cell, spatial omics at work again) Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…