Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our @Nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict.
We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating.
https://t.co/ZZ0UoKTqgn
This might make you think twice next time you reach for the fly swatter. The whole brain wiring diagram of the fly! All 140,000 neurons and their 50M synapses are available to explore in Codex, the Connectome Data Explorer: https://t.co/A4qsET9hBI #sfn23
Markus Imhoof used mini-helicopters & high-speed cameras to capture an extraordinary video of a queen bee inflight mating. The ejaculation of a drone bee is so powerful that his endophallus ruptures and he quickly dies
[video: https://t.co/rRLNRpfEOq]
There seems to be an increasing use of the justification for a paper being "little is known". Here is the appearance of this phrase in PubMed. It looks like we know less as time progresses. Little is known about why this trend has developed.
Please, RT and help me find cool people to join our team!
#Postdoc and #technician posts available in our lab to understand how animals make decisions when faced with conflicting situations.
Apply and find more info here: https://t.co/WzveelVlYS
Closing Date: 11/08/22
Thank you @BBSRC for funding our work on
#decision-making in #Drosophila
*PDRA and tech posts coming soon*.
Pls, RT and reach out if you might know of someone interested.
I will be attending #FENS (Paris) and #ICN (Lisbon) in July. Pls, get in touch if you want to chat.
Thank you @BBSRC for funding our work on
#decision-making in #Drosophila
*PDRA and tech posts coming soon*.
Pls, RT and reach out if you might know of someone interested.
I will be attending #FENS (Paris) and #ICN (Lisbon) in July. Pls, get in touch if you want to chat.
What a successful symposium! It was a pleasure to on the organising committee. Many thanks to everyone who helped and made today possible. Special thanks to @MohanakarthikPN the major person behind the scenes. Shoutout to our winning poster @matty_wright198 !! #BGRS2022
I am happy to share our new review about odor-guided behavior and the underlying olfactory circuits in the light of inter-individual variability: https://t.co/wmnTTzggs6