The best of two worlds: The in-person immediacy of the scientific NOW, & electronic longevity by owing your work as a digital object hosted by FENS & World Wide Neuro 🧠🗺️. Your DOI-verified eposter will be freely accessible, long lasting, and citable. It's like a pre-pre-print!

Sound localization by fish was long considered physically impossible, until it was shown behaviorally. How do they do it? Johannes Veith, Thomas Chaigne and team dove into this question with Danionella cerebrum. nature.com/articles/s4158… [1/11]

🚨The (preliminary) program for the #icn2024berlin is online! Check it out and share the link ↘️ icn2024-berlin.org/front/content.… ↙️ Please use the hashtag above to refer to the conference! Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin🤩🤗

A genome resource for the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What if we could universally recombine, insert, delete, or invert any two pieces of DNA? In back-to-back nature papers, we report the discovery of bridge RNAs and 3 atomic structures of the first natural RNA-guided recombinase - a new mechanism for programmable genome design

Please see new paper from colleague #GabeTravis' lab on how cones can make 11-cis retinal from 11-cis retinol to regenerate the visual pigment. RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments f... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How does organismal complexity originate? In this Annual Reviews article, I synthesize a framework for how cooperative division of labor evolves between cell types, creating organ-level functions. Organ Evolution: Emergence of Multicellular Function go.shr.lc/3xMHHs8

Excited to share my new paper "Spike distance function as a learning objective for spike prediction" accepted to #ICML2024 done with Marvin Seifert, Carola Yovanovich and Tom Baden. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.01966 Webpage: kdoran.com/spikedistance/ Made possible thanks to The Leverhulme Trust!

It's not over till its over! Come to the last session at #icn2024berlin in Hall B to see my talk about googley-eyed sea worms as well as other exciting talks about mantis shrimp (Judy_Chingwen) and jumping spiders (Megan Porter)! Neuroethology (ISN)

This meeting HHMI | Janelia will bring together researchers to share challenges and successes in the development of new genetic tools for a broad range of non-traditional model organisms and biological problems. Learn more + apply by Oct. 29 @ janelia.news/NMS25 @HHMINews

New study Cell Reports🥳 Using recordings & #deepnet driven image synthesis we find an intriguing difference btw🐭&🐒 visual cortex/V1 🐭: complex, non-Gabor like receptive fields 🐒: Gabor-like RFs Team effort🙌Jiakun Fu Andreas Tolias Lab sinzlab & more👇 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Why is reality so slow? Why can we only have one thought at a time? Why do we need so many neurons? Will Elon Musk's Neuralink really speed up his cognition? For answers and more questions check out our new review: "The Unbearable Slowness of Being". arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

The gustatory system of lampreys, representing the oldest extant vertebrates with true taste buds has been anatomically and physiologically characterized in the newest study from Barbara Zielinski's lab. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Finally published in today's issue of Cell Reports – our latest paper on patterning of retinal mosaics. See below for a tweetorial I posted last fall, and go here to see the final version: cell.com/cell-reports/f… Congrats to co-authors Chris Kozlowski and Sarah Hadyniak, PhD !

‼️Preprint is out!! Together with Tabea , Inês MA Ribeiro, J. Haag, Maria Leonte and A. Borst we explore the acetylcholine receptor variety in T5 visual neurons of Drosophila melanogaster. Read on to learn more!!🪰👁️🧠doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Our paper📝“Top-down modulation of the retinal code via histaminergic neurons of the hypothalamus” is now available in Science Advances! Dive in to find out how histaminergic neurons in the brain🧠modulate activity of retinal neurons in mice🐭and humans😎. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

My lab at UCLA Stein Eye Institute is hiring for a research technician and a postdoc. This is a highly collaborative environment. Please see retinalcircuits.com for more info and DM me if interested.

Hi neuro people: What is the current though on cephalization in bilaterians? Was there probably a significant CNS in urbilateria, or did brains evolve more than once in the major bilaterian lineages?

How can we train biophysical neuron models on data or tasks? We built Jaxley, a differentiable, GPU-based biophysics simulator, which makes this possible even when models have thousands of parameters! Led by Michael Deistler, collab with Philipp Berens Pedro J. Goncalves biorxiv.org/content/10.110…