Drosophila Neuroscientist | Assistant professor at UC Berkeley in Neuroscience and MCB (@berkeleymcb.bsky.social)
https://www.fisherlab.science/
Yvette Fisher
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📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P!
⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026
Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd...
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Congratulations to the 2026 McKnight Scholars! Great to see many friends amongst this cohort!
www.mcknight.org/news-ideas/2...
A glowing profile of my post-doc advisor.
As @yvetteefisher.bsky.social says in the piece, Rachel is truly "...one of these generational scientists who thinks extremely incisively about both the details and the big-picture frameworks."
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/stu...
Calcium spikes know which way the wind blows!
Lily Nguyen and I wrote a dispatch on this fascinating work led by Itzel [email protected]+Gaby Maimon!
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The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is pleased to announce it has selected ten neuroscientists to receive the 2026 McKnight Scholar Award.
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We had a lot of fun working on this project (led by Itzel Ishida, not on bluesky). Some interesting highlights from the paper -
In the fly central complex, PFNa neurons switch from firing classical sodium spikes
when depolarized to firing non-canonical T-type calcium spikes when hyperpolarized.
This bidirectional spiking allow...
