We are thrilled to share the news that our colleague John Tuthill has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Huge congratulations and very well-deserved, John!!

We have another artist-inspired cover design! The mobile art of Calder & its kinetic feature reflect the dynamic switch of cortical states during learning shown in Takaki Komiyama's lab latest work: bit.ly/3chqko3 Check out our latest issue here bit.ly/36RtjvI

I am honored to have been selected for the SFARI Bridge to Independence Award! Looking forward to investigating the reinforcement learning in autism.

All walking animals use proprioception to control limb movements. How do different proprioceptor subtypes, embedded within the same tissue, sense different mechanical stimuli? We went down a 🕳️ pursuing this ❓ and emerged 👨‍🔧👩‍🔧. A 🧵on our new preprint. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The olfactory bulb is beautiful and I can prove it. Look this...

Today, we’re introducing a new model that eliminates accept/reject decisions. By publishing every paper with eLife reviews as a Reviewed Preprint, we plan to restore autonomy to authors, ensuring that they will be judged by what, not where, they publish. elifesciences.org/inside-elife/5…

We are recruiting postdocs. If you are coming to the SfN and want to chat, please reach out. Motor learning, olfaction, decision making.

Monday morning 2 komiyama lab posters! P14 “Adaptive top-down control of sensory gain by long-range cholinergic projections to the olfactory bulb” by Bin Yu Bin Yu.

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Krishna Shenoy. He was a pillar of our community, a brilliant scientist and a beloved mentor and colleague. We share our condolences with Krishna’s family, trainees and colleagues. Details to come on a planned memorial service.

The emerging connectome, or synaptic wiring diagram, of the Drosophila brain has transformed fly circuit neuroscience. But the ventral nerve cord, which mediates limb proprioception and motor control, has lagged behind. We set out to fill this gap. 🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

“My advice to grad students and post-docs is to have a secret project. Don’t tell anyone about it, especially not your advisor.” 🙊😂

Thrilled to share our latest work from Joe Ecker lab, using cutting-edge snmC-seq3 and snm3C-seq technologies to generate 301,626 methylomes and 176,003 mC+3C multiome profiles from 117 dissected regions throughout the adult mouse brain. (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Locomotion requires flexible coordination of limbs with many degrees of freedom. How are premotor neural circuits organized to solve this problem? In our new preprint, we used connectomics to analyze the wiring logic of motor control networks in the fly.🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super proud to share that Oscar Arroyo, a UNC Genetics PhD PhD student in my lab has been awarded a prestigious HHMI Gilliam fellowship. We are both looking forward to working with #GilliamFellows program to promote inclusive graduate training. Congratulations, Oscar!!

New pape from the lab on how the exquisite biomechanical structure of joints, tendons, other doohickeys determine mechanosensory feature selectivity and establish a topographic map of joint angle among proprioceptive sensory neurons in the fly leg authors.elsevier.com/a/1hZ6d3BtfH5M…

A bit late announcement on twitter: I will move to 🏝️Florida🐊 next month to open my lab as an assistant professor Wertheim UF Scripps My lab will study decision making, RL, number sense, autism using VR tasks for mice. I am recruiting postdoc/student/tech!!! Email or DM me if interested.

Excited to share our latest research published in nature! We explored how working memory representations evolve and stabilize with practice, using simultaneous volumetric imaging of more than 73,000 neurons. Big thanks to my amazing team and collaborators! Special appreciation

Two new papes! (1)The connectome of a female Drosophila ventral nerve cord & mapping its motor neurons to muscles: nature.com/articles/s4158…. (2)Comparing the exquisite synaptic organization of premotor neural circuits controlling the fly leg and wing: nature.com/articles/s4158…. 1/3

I am excited to announce that a part of my thesis work with Takaki Komiyama is out on bioRxiv! Summary 🧵⬇️. Thanks to all the co-authors' contributions!