Neurobiologist
Indiana University Bloomington, @iubiology.bsky.social
Co-director, CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila course
(Fernandez, M.P.)
https://fernandez.lab.indiana.edu
Maria de la Paz Fernandez
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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!
Zhou Guan’s preprint from the lab on how mutations in Synaptotagmin 1 and 2 disrupt neurotransmitter release to cause human neurological diseases is available at BioRxiv.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
FlyBase release FB2026_02 is live!
As of this release we now have 2000 gene group reports🎉, including 1453 ‘classical’ gene group reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg, 399 protein complex reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/c..., 96 metabolic pathway reports flybase.org/lists/FBgg/m... (continued)
@drummonk.bsky.social and I wrote a @plosbiology.org Primer to highlight a fantastic study by Aalim Weljie’s and Amita Sehgal’s groups that reveals time-of-day dependent activities of glucose metabolic pathways.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Join us! Ask Me Anything as part of the #SRBR World Circadian Day. Organized with expert researchers and physicians studying #biologicalrhythms and #sleep. Real-time responses starting in just 5 circadian cycles from now.
my former boss (and amazing mentor) Carl Johnson just released a series of lectures on the fundamental properties of #circadian clocks, which you should definitely check out if you're interested in chronobiology!
as.vanderbilt.edu/johnsonlab/f...
Great news from the lab - we’ve been awarded a MIRA (R35)!
This grant provides 5-year support for our research program. We are very grateful to NIGMS/ #NIH for supporting our research. We will be hiring a research technician and a postdoc.
fernandez.lab.indiana.edu/news/index.h...
Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
Ever wonder if a baby knows what time it is? This work by @circatwenty4.bsky.social and collaborators says that the fetus synchronizes its daily rhythms to mom before birth. tinyurl.com/yk3m8fx3 #SRBRa #circadian #chronomedicine
Society for Neuroscience
Joanna Chiu
Maria de la Paz Fernandez
Troy Littleton
FlyBase
Katrin Vogt
Erik Herzog
Luísa Tupinambá Jabbur
Wei-Chung Allen Lee
Erik Herzog
FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
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):
nwg-info.de/sites/nwg-in...
Circadian rhythms in gene expression and hormones are ubiquitous across species and differentiated cell types, yet their developmental origins remain poorly und...
The circadian clock and cellular metabolism are tightly coupled. This primer discusses a recent PLOS study that elucidates how glucose metabolism changes over the course of the day in Drosophila and h...
How do #circadian clocks regulate glucose processing? By integrating human metabolite profiling with isotope-tracing in #Drosophila, this study defines daily rhythms in #glucose utilization that are influenced by circadian timing @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Olm1M1
