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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Jul 23

🪰 A new ‘Eyemap’ developed by a team led by Arthur Zhao & @michaelreiser.bsky.social reveals how visual information detected by the fly’s eye shows up in neurons deep in the brain. Remarkably, the eye’s shape determines how flies see motion.👁️
🔗 hhmi.news/4kSZjou

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · May 3

Amazing paper! Very proud to have helped a tiny bit, but Mert deserves all the credit. What a tour de force!!

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · May 1

🪰How does a fruit fly walk or fly in a perfectly straight line — 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.
📖 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/researc...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mert Erginkaya @merterginkaya.bsky.social · May 2

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...

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · May 1

🪰How does a fruit fly walk or fly in a perfectly straight line — 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.
📖 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/researc...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Apr 25

Congratulations, Jerome!

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Apr 25

Frank is a truly amazing Janelian!

We are so fortunate to work with him and so many wonderful people every day!!

Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Apr 24

⚡ Frank Loesche @fra-loe.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy is an Electromechanical Engineer on Janelia’s Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience-NeuroEngineering Team (MCN-NET). 🧵 (1/10)

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

Research Technician - Open Chemistry

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Apr 2

Oh Brian. I am so, so sorry. I have no words,but yours were so beautiful.

May her memory be a blessing.

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you, Gonzalo!

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Apr 2

OMG, I am honored, Matt!

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you, Chris!

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 29

Thank you so much Ana Marija!!

Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 28

you are too kind, @csdashm.com -- all the code management, discipline and general brilliance was managed by @fra-loe.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy with buy-in from the whole team

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Diane Adjavon @adjavon.bsky.social · Jan 15

Can you spot the difference between the cells on the left and right?

Read on for the solution (and a preprint announcement)… 👇

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An illustration of two plates of cells, with a slight difference in the size of one of the organelles.

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thank you to the person who first showed me how to trace neurons!

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

thank you, Maria...so much work from so many great people! We tried our best to build a resource for the field, but I think it's actually a paper that's still readable!

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Maria Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · Mar 27

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system

Looking forward to reading this!
@michaelreiser.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature

A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

www.nature.com

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

This project was a marathon, and we are all so proud of the finished product.
Thanks to all 70 co-authors who contributed in so many ways. #connectome #flyvision #openscience

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

we also released hundreds of cell-type specific split-GAL4 lines matched to connectome defined cell types!

Find the lines:
🪰🧠 splitgal4.janelia.org/cgi-bin/spli...

Extended Data Fig. 14 |Examples of split-GAL4 lines matched to
EM-defined cell types.

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

And of course, the whole connectome dataset is available on neuprint:
🪰🧠 neuprint.janelia.org?dataset=opti...
Explore & discover to your heart's content — or let us know what you'd like to know and we can help!

neuPrintExplorer

exploring inter and intra cellular interactions in neuPrint+

neuprint.janelia.org

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

we're trying to make connectome analysis as accessible as possible #openscience 💻🔍
We’re sharing all our code so you can reproduce our figures or go deeper into the analysis:
🪰🧠 github.com/reiserlab/ma...

GitHub - reiserlab/male-drosophila-visual-system-connectome-code: Supplemental source code for Nern et al. 2024: "Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system". The Cell type explore...

Supplemental source code for Nern et al. 2024: "Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system". The Cell type explorer repository is at https://github.com/reiserlab/male-...

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

Yes, the paper is cool...
BUT if you’re a fan of fly vision and neuroanatomy, the Supplemental Materials are the real treat 🎉
We made a catalog of all the cells and it's ✨beautiful✨
🧭 Interactive explorer: reiserlab.github.io/male-drosoph...

Start Page .:. Cell Type Explorer .:. Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

This massive effort was made possible by the incomparable Aljoscha Nern and an amazing team of experts, passionate neuroscientists, and all-around brilliant humans. 🙌💡We all pitched in to analyze, curate, and visualize all the beautiful neurons of the fly visual system.

Reiser lab and friends group photo from lab fun day after we submitted the paper, April 2024

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Michael Reiser @michaelreiser.bsky.social · Mar 27

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 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature

A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

www.nature.com

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Catherine (Katie) Schretter @ceschretter.bsky.social · Dec 12

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 🥊) modulate visual processing in #Drosophila. #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧪 1/

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