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meital.bsky.social
Senior Scientist @Weizmann Institute. We study sexually dimorphic neuronal circuits. Views are my own
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Neuromodulation, sex specific responses, peptides, oh my!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

After a long wait, our paper is out! We show that differences in learning between the sexes are modulated by the NPY receptor, which gates sensory perception. Great work by PhD student, soon to be Dr, Sonu Kurien www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

Co-wrote w/ Rohini this hopefully easily understandable article @thehindu.com on curiosity driven research w/ the worm, its many contributions to scientific advances, including several Nobels. 🙏🏾 @1amnerd.bsky.social & Upendra Kulkarni for editing www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/sci...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinating talk by @ella-pbn.bsky.social today a Weizmann’s dev club, on the evolution and regulation of complex morphologies in #drosophila

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Awesome to be highlighted by @naturecellbiology.bsky.social #science #art #MBR #midbody #extracellularvesicles @uwmadscience.bsky.social

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 61 days ago • 8 comments

Turns out parental brains are thinking about offspring. @odedrechavi.bsky.social @bjornschumacher.bsky.social @meital.bsky.social Impressive!

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you ERC for the generous support 🤩

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Reposting because of the great influx of people here. Long story short: like inhibitory DREADDs but with light and switchable.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Important opinion piece on openness and transparency in animal research, by FENS-Kavli scholars onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments