Excited to announce that I’m back in the chemical senses field as a PO & will be managing the peripheral smell & taste research portfolio. Ive been studying chem senses in some form since UG & really looking forward to joining the institute that has supported most of my career. 🧪

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The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

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🧠🪰 Excited to share our paper in @elife.bsky.social detailing the synaptic connectome of the neurosecretory network in Drosophila. We mapped the hormone-releasing neurosecretory cells (NSCs) in the fly brain and their connectivity. 🧵https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.102684

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I put together a list of neuroscience job openings to make it easier for people at my Institute to find jobs. I wanted to share it here too 🧠 Tabs cover assistant professor, senior, and related non-PI roles. Updated Oct 12. The Read Me explains more. Please share! #neuroscience #neurojobs #postdoc

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How do 🐁deal with complex landscapes? Turns out they learn a lot very quickly. We think they do this by learning a set of repeated sparse paths, which form a type of compressed world model. Joint work with the Hermundstad lab, led by Tzuhsuan Ma and Alison Comrie: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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