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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 19h

🔊 Listen to Senior Group Leader Hari Shroff discuss microscopy, biology and his path through science in the latest episode of Ashoka University's The Science of It podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyoP5HwAFAc&list=PLaTCrA79FLSx-NV34W0Ee2Ei8FgmBDEKn&index=16

The Science of Microscopy | Innovator Hari Shroff | The Science of It Ep. 4

Microscopist Hari Shroff takes us deeper into the world of nature's tiniest beings in the latest episode of Ashoka University's #TheScienceofIt podcast. What made a computer scientist and physicist turn to building microscopes to explore the beauty of ...

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 2d

🪰 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 millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 4d

Become a Theory Fellow @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

🧪 Work alongside experimentalists to test and refine theories
🎯 Receive mentorship from leading computational scientists
🔁 Contribute to Janelia’s cross-disciplinary research environment

Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 7d

🥼 New research from the Wang Lab reveals a novel connection between lysosomes & the epigenome and provides new insights into how lysosomes regulate longevity over generations & drive the histone-based transfer of epigenetic information between cells.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4mCD3QO

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 11d

Plenary speaker spotlight ✨ Meng Wang (@bcmhouston.bsky.social / @hhmi.org) at #ASBMB26: “Racing the clock: Molecular mechanisms of aging.”

➡️Dive into the biochemical basis of aging, from metabolism to the genome: ow.ly/68i150X37Pm.
#MakeItPossibble #AgingResearch #FutureOfScience

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 12d

✨ ICYMI: Researchers detail how neurotransmitter receptors in the fly brain change during development ➡️ https://hhmi.news/4mFMhMY

Researchers detail how neurotransmitter receptors in the fly brain change during development

New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation and function of synapses--the junctions where communi...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 12d

🪱New research from the Wang Lab shows how changes in a worm’s lysosomes promoting longevity are transferred to its offspring through the epigenome, revealing how epigenetic modifications that help organisms cope with environmental stress can be inherited.

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Leaving a mark: New research shows how longevity is inherited across generations

New research from the Wang Lab reveals a novel connection between lysosomes & the epigenome and provides new insights into how lysosomes regulate longevity over generations & drive the histone-based t...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 14d

🥼 Working with tool developers & support teams, Janelia’s GENIE Project Team recently created next generation sensors for detecting the neurotransmitters glutamate & GABA and adapted a new tool aimed at controlling & studying specific neural circuits in flies.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4gFqwKX

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Applications are open for the 4th installment of our ChemTools conference.

We'll explore:
🧪 Platforms & tools for analyzing cell/tissue networks
⚡ Methods to perturb biological networks
🔍 Applications that yield new insights

🛏️ Lodging + meals covered
➡️ Apply by Dec 5: https://janelia.news/CHM26

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Stephan Saalfeld @herrsaalfeld.bsky.social · 19d

We are looking for an #AIEngineer to help build protein language models that capture evolutionary constraints with @matsen.bsky.social and @jbloomlab.bsky.social at #AI@HHMI @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
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AI Engineer - Evolutionary Protein Language Models

Primary Work Address: 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA, 20147 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. Intro: AI@HHMI: HHMI is investing $500 million over the next 10 years ...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 20d

🌟 Launch your own lab at Janelia 🌟

Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹 No teaching requirements
🔹 100% internally funded
🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams

📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 22d

🧪For more than a decade, the GENIE Project Team has collaborated with tool developers & users to take innovative biological sensors from novel prototypes to widely used laboratory staples.

Now, @janeliagenie.bsky.social is unveiling their latest collaborations.
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Unleashing the GENIE: Janelia’s Project Team develops state-of-the-art sensors for biological research

For more than a decade, the GENIE Project Team at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has collaborated with the research campus’s tool developers and tool users to take innovative biological sensors from n...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 26d

📢 Applications are open!

Join us in May to explore computational simulation of biomechanical body models, bridging #neuroethology, #ML, physics simulation & computer vision. 🧠🤖 👁

🛏️ Lodging, meals & registration covered

➡️ Apply by Nov. 21 @ https://janelia.news/SIB26

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 29d

Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia.

🔍 Use computation & theory to tackle biological problems.
🖥️ Leverage state-of-the-art computational infrastructure
🤝 Collaborate across scientific disciplines

Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram

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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · 29d

Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 Conduct your PhD thesis research at Janelia.

🎓 Apply by Dec 3 for our joint graduate programs with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in neuroscience & cross-disciplinary biology.

🌐 Collaborate across disciplines
🛠️ Work with tool builders
🤝 Train in a supportive environment

➡️ janelia.org/graduate

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Sep 3

Research detailing how nicotinic acetylcholine receptors—the main type of neurotransmitter receptor in the fly brain—change during development lays the groundwork for understanding the molecular composition, regulation & adaptability of these synapses➡️ https://hhmi.news/4mFMhMY

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HHMI @hhmi.org · Aug 28

🎉Congratulations to David Baker, winner of the @royalsociety.org's Croonian Medal and Lecture for pioneering the design of completely new proteins and playing key roles in the development of protein structure prediction and protein engineering tools.

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 27

🧪 New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave & change as an organism develops, information that could help scientists better understand the formation & function of synapses.➡️ https://hhmi.news/4mFMhMY

Researchers detail how neurotransmitter receptors in the fly brain change during development

New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation and function of synapses--the junctions where communi...

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders!

Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹5-year renewable appointment
🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches
🔹Collaborate across disciplines

Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 25

❄️Time-deterministic cryo-optical microscopy, developed by researchers at the University of Osaka, Janelia & collaborating institutions, rapidly freezes live cells under an optical microscope, capturing a snapshot of cellular activity in high resolution➡️ https://hhmi.news/421MTUL

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HHMI @hhmi.org · Aug 22

Please join us in congratulating HHMI Investigators Jennifer Doudna (@jenniferdoudna.bsky.social) and David R. Liu, recipients of national awards from the American Chemical Society (@acs.org) for 2026.‬‬

🔗 cen.acs.org/people/award...

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Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 20

🔗 Read more about how the Li Lab is decoding the language of cells with the power of proteomics ➡️ hhmi.news/4lIpqz3

Decoding the language of cells with the power of proteomics

Researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, Stanford University, and the Broad Institute are developing user-friendly tools to help scientists translate cellular communication and uncover new detai...

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