How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧪#Neuroskyence

Congratulations to former Ph.D. student Dr. Julianne Peláez, who has been awarded a Hanna Gray Fellowship @hhmi.bsky.social to work with Professor Paul Garrity at Brandeis on mosquitoes! Julianne is richly deserving of this award and continues to amaze me with her science. So proud of you Julianne!

Attending ASCB|EMBO? Join us for a Special Interest Subgroup on Sensory Receptors, featuring @ericmulhall.bsky.social, @rachellegaudet.bsky.social, Eric Gouaux, Maude Baldwin, Juan Du and Corey Allard, co-organized with Josefina del Marmol @delmarmollab.bsky.social
#CellBio2024

How do mosquitoes find people to bite & places to lay eggs? Turns out, sensing water vapor is key. In new work we (Tang et al.) ID mosquito receptors for dry/moist air. KO'ing them drops blood feeding and renders females unable to find water to lay eggs.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

to paraphrase zonker harris: those 8 years as an assistant professor at MIT are really starting to pay off

was that the pit?

Preprint: Structure of an insect gustatory receptor. From Heather Frank, Sanket Walujkar, Richard Walsh, Willem Laursen, Doug Theobald, me and Rachelle Gaudet. A great collaborative effort. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/3

that's awesome!! congrats Chris

TIL: "Smell ... was long considered “a primitive sense that wasn’t worth studying by neurobiologists,” says xxx, a physicist at IBM Research." www.science.org/content/arti...