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Hi! 👋
It's time for an #introduction here on #neuroscience mastodon.
I'm Hannah Haberkern and I study flies to learn more about how animals navigate. I'm especially interested in visual orientation and the role of plasticity in #navigation. Currently I'm a postdoc at HHMI Janelia in Vivek Jayaraman's lab.

I'll take this new start as an opportunity to start sharing a bit more #pigeon and #quilting content. Here's me with a semi-recent quilt finish, a quilt that's in progress, and my Boab.

#Introduction

Hi #ScienceMastodon. We, at #J_Cell_Sci, are a #community journal covering all areas of #cellbiology. We also host the microscopy community site @focalplane_jcs. Journal of Cell Science is led by Editor-in-Chief Michael Way & published by the not-for-profit @Co_Biologists.

We will toot about our content, including #research papers, #reviews, #interviews, charitable activities, and news from @focalplane_jcs.

Toots by Senior Editor Petra Gross & Executive Editor @seemasainson

Not only did we have a great meeting - but we also got a cool catch of protists in the ponds around!

Thx @Dey_Gautam & @EelcoTromer & @Co_Biologists

The movies are below in the comments!
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RT @Co_Biologists
Thank you to organisers Gautam Dey @Dey_Gautam
& Eelco C. Tromer @EelcoTromer and all attendees for a great Workshop on Genotype to Phenotype: Bridging Comparative Genomics and Cell Biology.
biologists.com/workshops

twitter.com/Co_Biologists/stat

🚨Please RT: There is an open 3-year postdoc position open for a bioinformatician in my lab at Sars Centre in Bergen.
Project on gene expression & chromatin accessibility changes in quiescent cells. Deadline: 25th November.
More info & apply at: tinyurl.com/yc43x7mc

Beautiful work by Omaya Dudin @DudinLab reminding us of the massive undersampling of diversity in modern functional .
The first look at the of just one Ichthyosporeans (close relatives of animals) opens up completely new worlds that we could not have predicted from genomes only.
Check out this life-cycle video:
bit.ly/3twr8uJ
from elifesciences.org/articles/498
and there is a lot more diversity of life cycles and cleavage patterns across the group

"The controlled expression of one cellular feature -- the cilium -- was likely critical during early animal evolution. Two key transcription factors, RFX and FoxJ1, coordinate ciliogenesis in animals but are absent from the genomes of most other ciliated eukaryotes, raising the question of how the transcriptional regulation of ciliogenesis has evolved."

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

Flora Vincent shows cool mesocosm experiments conducted in Norway to characterise the rise and demise of an algal boom - a month-long time series
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

@vincentflora

#Introduction to #ScienceMastodon

I am a #Cilia #Islet #Biologist and endocrinologist at WashU in St Louis.
#PrimaryCilia because it is the center of the cell and my world.
Unafraid to challenge convention and do difficult experiments (because we don’t know better).
Also #Microscopy because seeing is believing. 

#Cilia #cell #center #cytoskeleton #betacell #signaling #diabetes

Image credit #WUCCI and Alex Polino

For neuroscientists attending : don’t miss the poster by Mitya Chklovskii’s group describing the completion status of the whole brain of the fairy wasp , of expected completion early in 2022. Find the poster tomorrow Monday morning, number 328.16 / YY35.

Mitya kindly shared the poster image publicly elsewhere.

This tiny is famous for being the size of a large paramecium (a unicellular organism) and for enucleating the vast majority of its central neurons while pupating. The adult has less that 10,000 neurons in its central brain yet it isn’t missing any organ or body part. See the paper that jumpstarted this effort:

Polilov AA. The smallest insects evolve anucleate neurons. Arthropod structure & development. 2012 Jan 1;41(1):29-34. sciencedirect.com/science/arti

I'm very fortunate to be a co-organiser of "Dynamic Cell V", the latest in the Biochemical Society and BSCB meeting series showcasing the activity of living cells from all kingdoms of life. The details are: 17 to the 20 April 2023, Loughborough University (UK). Registration will open at biochemistry.org/events/dynami

Job ad: Group Leader position in computational neurobiology cbd.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/j

Place: VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium.

Notice there are many other advertised job positions at that same research center, including lab tech, postdocs, experts (), specialists, administrative, and more: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/j

About a year ago I started using and to prepare presentation and I love it. Efficient, elegant, saves disk space and allows you you to easily prepare slides with a very consistent layout and style.

For an example see:
jekelylab.github.io/Presentati

You can use this repo github.com/JekelyLab/jekelylab to get started.

# Introduction
From the Roscoff Biological Station (#CNRS and #Sorbonne University) as well as visiting prof at NTU Singapore. Developing reference databases for #eukaryote #metabarcoding (18S rRNA).
#microbiology #ecology #RStats
pr2-database.org/

Since it proves challenging to find everybody at #mastodon, I thought it would be useful to add a little #introduction to my profile!
I am a neuroscientist, heading the research group Olfactory Coding at the MPI in Jena and interested in olfactory circuits, sensory processing and plasticity in #Drosophila. Key techniques are 2P functional imaging, SSR, anatomical tracing, neuronal reconstructions, neuro-/ optogenetics and diverse behavioral assays to study innate/ learned olfactory behavior.

Have a look at the workshops program, journals and grants of the awesome 'The Company of Biologists', the not-for-profit UK charity run by practicing scientists
biologists.com/workshops/
@Co_Biologists

Such a cool example of eukaryotic :
Rapid calcium influx triggered by the presence of mucus induces encystation of the ciliated zoospore of a frog-killing fungus
Cilium mediated??
sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Lillian Fritz-Laylin @FritzLaylin

Check out the EukProt v3 BLAST database with The Comparative Set (TCS) (with 196 species chosen based on BUSCO completion and phylogenetic importance)
Jeremy Wideman
evocellbio.com/eukprot/

Arrived at Buxted Park for "Genotype to Phenotype: Bridging Comparative Genomics and Cell Biology" workshop
organised by Gautam Dey & Eelco Tromer
run by the Company of Biologists

biologists.com/workshops/geno-

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