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michaelreiser.bsky.social
Trying to understand how behavior works by tinkering with flies, LEDs, lasers, and robots. Senior-ish group leader @ Janelia.
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πŸͺ°How does a fruit fly walk or fly in a perfectly straight line β€” even at high speed? It’s not just sharp vision. A sophisticated neural computation is at work. 🧠New study led by @champalimaudf.bsky.social Eugenia Chiappe. πŸ“– www.fchampalimaud.org/news/researc... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share my PhD paper is out! We studied how motion vision is processed beyond the optic lobes to help flies walk straight. It has been a wonderful collaboration with @michaelreiser.bsky.social, @dddavi.bsky.social and many others not in bluesky! Paper + digest here: bsky.app/profile/cham...

Frank is a truly amazing Janelian! We are so fortunate to work with him and so many wonderful people every day!!

We're looking for 1-2 enthusiastic early career chemists to join our Open Chemistry team at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Come help us create amazing dyes and share them with the world. Please share with the best recent/soon-to-be B.S. chemists you know! bit.ly/42w8C6N

Can you spot the difference between the cells on the left and right? Read on for the solution (and a preprint announcement)… πŸ‘‡ 1/6

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system Looking forward to reading this! @michaelreiser.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male π·π‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘ π‘œπ‘β„Žπ‘–π‘™π‘Ž optic lobe 🧠πŸͺ° πŸ”— www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to have this paper out (rdcu.be/d0T3Y)! In it, we focused on how flies know what to attend to in a complex environment (like below)? We uncovered neuronal pathways through which social states (like aggression πŸ₯Š) modulate visual processing in #Drosophila. #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience πŸ§ͺ 1/

Early vision Neuroscience community, Vol 1 We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long Addition requests, please see link in the below thread go.bsky.app/BotZr1g

Good morning #SfN23 people! Our lab has 3 posters this morning (Sunday Nov 12) and 2 tomorrow morning (Monday Nov 13). We'd love to see you and share our latest on fly vision, circuits, and behavior.