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PhD student, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany Drosophila | Learning & Memory | Action | Neuromodulation

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fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨🚨My PhD work pre-print🚨🚨
Check it out 👇👇
'Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila'

It's a great collaborative enterprise and can't thank enough to my mentors and collaborators for the kindest efforts...fingers crossed 🤞🤞

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 10

Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663268v1

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

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fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · 6d

What an exciting week!!
Thanks to the Learning and Memory Conference and everyone 🙂🙂

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fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you so much, Hannah :)

fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you, Wolf

fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · 12d

Can a PhD hat 👩‍🎓be cooler than this one? Nope.
Thanks to my 2nd home (Gerber lab) for making this wonderful journey full of learning and memory.
I am wholeheartedly thankful to my mentors, collaborators, advisors, well wishers, LIN, colleagues, friends, my flies, and my family. Thank you 🙏
26/09/25

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fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Sep 4

And here begins the 'LearnMamBo' era! Congratulations @obarnstedt.bsky.social as always!

Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are super excited that our project ***LearnMamBo*** Neuronal Dynamics of Learning and Memory in the Mammillary Body gets an #ercstartinggrant @erc.europa.eu – we will dissect the associated circuits supporting episodic memory – REACH OUT if interested in joining this project!

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fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!! The MamBo era begins!! 🥂

fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Aug 29

Congratulations 🎊

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · Aug 1

The first full central nervous system connectome dataset of an adult fly, with the most comprehensive annotation of sensory and motor neurons to date.

A heroic effort with contributions from many groups, a product of the collaborative spirit of the Drosophila neuroscience community.

Matt Collie @mottcallie.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy Friday! The female adult fly brain-and-nerve-cord (BANC) connectome is now LIVE!

Explore the data here: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc

Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you, Hannah 😀

fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you, Carolina ❤️

fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you, Wolf 😀

fatima1amin.bsky.social @fatima1amin.bsky.social · Jul 10

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 10

Avoidance engages dopaminergic punishment in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663268v1

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇

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Lucia Prieto Godino @neuroluci.bsky.social · Jun 12

How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇

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Yulong Li Lab @yulonglilab.bsky.social · Jun 6

Excited to share our Science paper on HaloDA1.0-the first genetically encoded far-red dopamine sensor! 🥳It enables powerful multiplex imaging in neurons, brain slices, and live animals.🧠🔬 #GRABsensors #Dopamine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In vivo multiplex imaging of dynamic neurochemical networks with designed far-red dopamine sensors

Dopamine (DA) plays a crucial role in a variety of brain functions through intricate interactions with other neuromodulators and intracellular signaling pathways. However, studying these complex netwo...

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 4

Nature research paper: Molecular gradients shape synaptic specificity of a visuomotor transformation

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Molecular gradients shape synaptic specificity of a visuomotor transformation - Nature

Gradients of cell recognition molecules wire a sensorimotor interface in Drosophila.

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · Jun 3

new preprint, led by @ellenlesser.bsky.social, on proprioceptive sensing of the Drosophila wing. tldr, there are a lot of proprioceptors out in the wing and they are wildly diverse and complex (eg, compared to the fly leg). just one example in this image...(1/4)

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Jun 2

A projection from the lateral hypothalamus (LHA) to the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) prioritizes survival over other needs by triggering safety-directed movement

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A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs - Nature Neuroscience

Animals need to adapt behavior to balance survival with fulfillment of essential needs. Krauth et al. identify neurons in the lateral hypothalamus that, when activated, prioritize survival over other ...

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Martin Fuhrmann @martinfuhrmann.bsky.social · Jun 1

It is out! Read how you achieve 1.7 mm deep 3-photon imaging in prefrontal cortex with dendritic spine resolution over a week.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Three-photon in vivo imaging of neurons and glia in the medial prefrontal cortex with sub-cellular resolution - Communications Biology

Three-photon in vivo imaging provides access to medial prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and spinal cord in mice at up to 1.7 mm depth of neurons, dendrites, spines, astrocytes and microglia.

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · May 19

New preprint from the lab, led by grad student Brandon Pratt, on the encoding properties and sensorimotor function of proprioceptive limit detectors (ie, hair plates) in the fly leg.

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Nature @nature.com · May 15

Nature research paper: Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal

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Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal - Nature

Dopaminergic action prediction error signals are used by mice as a value-free teaching signal to reinforce stable sound–action associations in the tail of the striatum.

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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · May 2

Happy to announce that our paper examining the function of leg mechanosensory neurons by way of their connectivity is finally officially published! rdcu.be/ekqVt

Divergent neural circuits for proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensing of the Drosophila leg

Nature Communications - Determining whether somatosensory neurons are involved in internal or external sensing remains a challenge. Here, the authors show that analyzing connectivity is a powerful...

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fly paper broadcast @fly-broadcast.bsky.social · May 2

A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila
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A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila #Drosophila

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