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tomtom-auer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UniFr studying evolution of circuits and behaviors in drosophilids. Co-Director @TReNDinAfrica - building education capacity.
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We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

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I'm thrilled to see the latest work from the lab published today @currentbiology.bsky.social. This project was carried by PhD student Jinfang Li, who combined the Flywire connectome with functional experiments to examine the principles of taste circuits in the fly brain. (Image by Jacelyn Shu)

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

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And more from our favorite species trio: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Happy to see this out now: Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports... In a team effort with @bentonlab.bsky.social 's lab we establish new genetic tools in #drosophila sechellia and compare single central brain neurons.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Our paper is out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments

Calling all Junior(-ish) Drosophila Investigators 📣📣📣 Join us in June for the JEDIs Resurection : flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... ✅presentations from participants, ✅panel on publishing (with fantastic guests) ✅plenty of time for socializing Register asap to help us with the first headcount

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