Cephalopods 🐙 can employ mirror reflections for spatial navigation. They understand the concept of the mirror and can use it to approach otherwise occluded prey. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Together with Daniel Münch @dahaniel.muench.bio, we contributed a review about complex neural processing across phyla - and how this allows adaptions to a dynamic environment. Enjoy reading!
Mirror-mediated localization of hidden objects is well documented in vertebrates1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 but has never been demonstrated in inverteb…
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Our study on a bacterial symbiont of the wasp spider Argiope bruennchi is available as a preprint. Likely an intracellular bacterium with a small genome of interesting phylogenetic placement.
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We have an open PhD position in my group for someone interested in functional morphology, biology of reproduction and evolutionary biology. Please spread the word!🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪
Check out the newest Neuroforum issue of the German Neuroscience Society and learn more about the members of the MODOLFOR research unit 5424 "Modulation in Olfaction" and their scientific interests (in German):
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Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇
Place coding is environment specific, i.e., place fields of place cells remap whenever the animal traverses a different habitat. Remapping at single cellular level seems to be random but at population level there is a geometric rule as a new study suggests.🐀🗺️🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
Leaf-mimicking katydids don’t just use their funky camouflage to survive, they’re using it to find love too! 🥰🍃💘 New paper out now in #ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org (Photo cred: Christian Ziegler): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 1/n
Didn't see that the bioRxiv neuro bot posted a link to our preprint a while back! We looked at behavioral and neural responses to courtship-related tail movements in axolotls. We found support for 3 (!) different models of evolution of communication depending which data we looked at. #neuroethology
Do you know an outstanding aquarist?
We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3
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The 75th cohort of Grass Fellows arrived in Woods Hole this week to begin their residency in the Grass Laboratory.
More info here: go.mbl.edu/grass-75-years
The 75th cohort of Grass Fellows arrived in Woods Hole this week to begin their residency in the Grass Laboratory. Since 1951, the Grass Fellowship Program has brought early-career investigators to the Grass Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laborator...
