Hello #Neuroscience mastodon,

we have a BBSRC funded #Phd position open!
A cool project utilise #Drosophila transcriptome and connectome to map out the novel #sleep controlling visual pathway!

see details here:

https://www.kofanchenlab.net/come-join-us

please boost and spread the words!

* same research theme is also eligible for CSC funding

RE: https://biologists.social/@flypapers/115569259745171322

I am very happy to be part of this work with my old UCL mate Simon Lowe and James Jepson, showing that sleep and habituation are linked! #drosophila #sleep #habituation

RE: https://biologists.social/@flypapers/115569259745171322

I am very happy to be part of this work with my old UCL mate Simon Lowe and James Jepson, showing that sleep and habituation are linked! #drosophila #sleep #habituation

📰 "Nighttime sleep modulates mechanosensory habituation in Drosophila"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688779v1?rss=1
#Drosophila #Sensory
#Sleep
#Adult

I am glad to say that the first manuscript from the lab is now available on BioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685496v1
We set out to answer a simple question:
If the fruit fly #Drosophila cannot see clearly, how would they #sleep ?
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I am glad to say that the first manuscript from the lab is now available on BioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685496v1
We set out to answer a simple question:
If the fruit fly #Drosophila cannot see clearly, how would they #sleep ?
1/8

Hello #Neuroscience mastodon,

we have a BBSRC funded #Phd position open!
A cool project utilise #Drosophila transcriptome and connectome to map out the novel #sleep controlling visual pathway!

see details here:

https://www.kofanchenlab.net/come-join-us

please boost and spread the words!

* same research theme is also eligible for CSC funding

So all those "wasteful" research funding grants to fruit fly research motivated and led to the biggest discovery fueling the whole of the modern "AI" boom. One never knows where basic research will lead, it's impossible to predict. Hence basic research is not at all wasteful, on the contrary, it's essential, it's the foundation of a rich, wealthy, creative society. And also very cheap, comparatively: https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20160601_Unintended_consequences_of_untimely_research.html

Search also for the returns on the human genome project, or on the humble origins of DNA sequencing, to name just two among many.

#Drosophila#StableDiffusion#MachineLearning #academia

So all those "wasteful" research funding grants to fruit fly research motivated and led to the biggest discovery fueling the whole of the modern "AI" boom. One never knows where basic research will lead, it's impossible to predict. Hence basic research is not at all wasteful, on the contrary, it's essential, it's the foundation of a rich, wealthy, creative society. And also very cheap, comparatively: https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20160601_Unintended_consequences_of_untimely_research.html

Search also for the returns on the human genome project, or on the humble origins of DNA sequencing, to name just two among many.

#Drosophila#StableDiffusion#MachineLearning #academia

100 years of #quantummechanics this year! Werner Heisenberg introduced fundamental uncertainty into physics and demolished Newtons clockwork.
Few people know that Werner Heisenberg's youngest son Martin spent his career introducing uncertainty into #neuroscience studying #drosophila fruit flies.

His experiments can tell us a lot about how human brains work. I think we ought to embrace the uncertainty!

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2025/07/embrace-the-uncertainty/

Hacer un doctorado en ciencias tiene un poco de apostolado.

Hoy, como #orientadororgulloso me doy el gusto de compartir el #preprint del segundo artículo del doctorado de Cristina Parada.

Poco se sabe del gen Ptr, aunque perderlo es, casi seguro, una condena a muerte antes de nacer (afecta seriamente los músculos, y probablemente el desarrollo del sistema nervioso entre otras cosas).

Usando moscas de la fruta, un bichito conveniente y barato, Cristina y un gran equipo descubrieron que una mutación en Ptr altera la maduración y dinámica de las células del sistema inmunitario.
Cuánto pueda decirnos esto de alteraciones más profundas del sistema inmunitario está por verse, pero es sin duda un hallazgo importante.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.662979v1

@constanzasilvera
#pedeciba #biologia #phd #doctorado #ciencias #drosophila #drosophilamelanogaster #iibce #biorxivpreprint @biorxiv_devbio @flypapers #udelar #posgrado #mujeresenciencias#biologíadeldesarrollo #development #biologiacelular #madeinuruguay#Uruguay

Hacer un doctorado en ciencias tiene un poco de apostolado.

Hoy, como #orientadororgulloso me doy el gusto de compartir el #preprint del segundo artículo del doctorado de Cristina Parada.

Poco se sabe del gen Ptr, aunque perderlo es, casi seguro, una condena a muerte antes de nacer (afecta seriamente los músculos, y probablemente el desarrollo del sistema nervioso entre otras cosas).

Usando moscas de la fruta, un bichito conveniente y barato, Cristina y un gran equipo descubrieron que una mutación en Ptr altera la maduración y dinámica de las células del sistema inmunitario.
Cuánto pueda decirnos esto de alteraciones más profundas del sistema inmunitario está por verse, pero es sin duda un hallazgo importante.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.662979v1

@constanzasilvera
#pedeciba #biologia #phd #doctorado #ciencias #drosophila #drosophilamelanogaster #iibce #biorxivpreprint @biorxiv_devbio @flypapers #udelar #posgrado #mujeresenciencias#biologíadeldesarrollo #development #biologiacelular #madeinuruguay#Uruguay