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Emilie Macé @mace-lab.bsky.social · 27d

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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BonnBrain Conference @bonnbrainconf.bsky.social · Sep 8

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

Flyer advertising the BonnBrain Conference 2026, "From Genes to Circuits and Behavior".

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Siddharth Jayakumar @siddjakes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Excited to share our latest!! Thanks to everyone involved especially @neurovenki.bsky.social!

Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies

Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide behaviors. For mammals, odors are prominent environmental features which are sampled by active modulation of sniffing ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Isaac Bianco @isaacbianco.bsky.social · Aug 23

Latest from the lab. Beautiful work from Joanna Lau and a fantastic collaboration with James Fitzgerald.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Supraspinal commands have a modular organization that is behavioral context specific

Lau et al. use calcium imaging and statistical modeling to comprehensively survey reticulospinal activity during diverse locomotor behaviors. They find that a small set of functional modules act combi...

www.cell.com

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Indeed, it is interesting to think how far one could push this analogy and to speculate how the joint constraints of genetics and environmental statistics contribute to this architecture.

Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · Jul 23

@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Science and Art, what could be better?

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Wyart Lab @wyartlab.bsky.social · Jul 2

Let's share @etlunsford.bsky.social's work : to survive, animals avoid drifting involuntarily in their environment. While humans rely on visual & vestibular cues, birds & fish need to sense complex flow changes of the external fluid (air/water) around them to select motor actions. How do they do?(1)

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Fumi Kubo @fumikubo.bsky.social · Jun 10

Preprint Alert!
How does the brain distinguish different types of optic flow?
We combined CaMPARI2 labeling with single-cell RNA-seq (CaMPARI-seq) to dissect visual circuits in zebrafish.
Read the full study here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Molecular and functional dissection using CaMPARI-seq reveals the neuronal organization for dissociating optic flow-dependent behaviors

Optic flow processing is critical for the visual control of body and eye movements in many animals. Rotational and translational binocular optic flow patterns need to be clearly distinguished to induc...

www.biorxiv.org

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · Jun 5

Unfortunately I cannot be there this year (I am jealous), but it is great to see the familiar location and the same dedication to sharing and enjoying science by the TENSS family: Raul, Florin, Priyanka, the TAs: Sriram, Anna Maria, and Fred back there looking out the window.

Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · May 23

Are you interested in visual systems? How are they similar or different across species? Read the review by Ryosuke @ryosuketanaka.bsky.social and Ruben published today in @natrevneuro.nature.com. It is available here: rdcu.be/enlpC

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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · May 12

Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching.
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · May 21

If you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...

Mathematics in Biology

Biology has turned into a quantitative science. The core problems in the life sciences today involve complex systems that require mathematical expression, ye...

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · May 2

I bought this book and its great! Highly recommend to have around the lab.

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Feb 18

"Mathematics in Biology" is a concise but rigorous textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the biological sciences that provides a foundation for understanding the methods used in quantitative biology: @mameister4.bsky.social

Mathematics in Biology

Biology has turned into a quantitative science. The core problems in the life sciences today involve complex systems that require mathematical expression, ye...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Apr 20

Algorithmic dissection of optic flow memory in larval zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.648832v1

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Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar @mpinb.mpg.de · Apr 15

🧠 Interested in a postdoc in neuroscience?
Our Department of Computational Neuroethology is hiring for two exciting projects:
🔬 Retinal circuitry evolution
🐟 Mechanistic cognition in Danionella cerebrum
mpinb.mpg.de/en/research-...
📅 Apply by May 13 via the Max Planck #PostdocProgram
#Neuroethology

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · Apr 16

Cornell’s new homepage:
RESEARCH MATTERS
🔬🔭🧪⚗️🧬💪😍
www.cornell.edu

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · Apr 3

Rheotaxis: the movement through a body of water against the current

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · Apr 2

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We are looking for a lab technician, a lab manager and researchers to join us in this new chapter. Read the post here: portugueslab.com/the-lab-is-h...
Reach out to us if you are interested.

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · Apr 2

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We leave lifelong friends and collaborators behind, but this sadness is mixed with the excitement of colleagues, friends and research ahead.

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Starting this summer, and after 11 wonderful years in Munich, the Portugues Lab will be starting a new adventure at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) (nbb.cornell.edu) at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior | Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

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Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...

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Dinu F Albeanu @dinanthos.bsky.social · Feb 26

New preprint: a simple method (ADePT) for optical control and recording of activity by axially-decoupling the focal planes for widefield patterned photo-stimulation and two photon imaging. Proof-of-principle analysis of functional connectivity in the olfactory bulb. 1/7 #neuroscience

Axially decoupled photo-stimulation and two photon readout (ADePT) for mapping functional connectivity of neural circuits

All optical physiology in vivo provides a conduit for investigating the function of neural circuits in 3-D. Here, we report a new strategy for flexible, axially-decoupled photo-stimulation and two pho...

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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · Feb 24

Stand up for Science, on March 7th, in Boston. Please help spread this widely.

Boston, MA

Location: Massachusetts State House 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, United States Address: 24 Beacon St., Boston, MA, 02133 Time: 12-4 PM Important information: Please do not fully block the sidewalk, st…

standupforscience2025.org

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Feb 20

Table of contents, sample chapter, and lots of other materials are here: www.mathinbio.com.
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Mathematics in Biology

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