Thanks for funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @dfg.de and others!
Frog-tech opening in the lab in beautiful Brighton. This is on @mforst.bsky.social ‘s Wellcome grant, to help with all manners of fancy frog-business! Transgenics, viruses, spooking tadpoles, tempting froglets with fake bugs, you name it!
How is the ON and OFF pathway split in the visual system? 🤔
The textbook standard, that bipolar cells are separated simply by the glutamate receptors they express, might be due for an update....a short 🧵
Calling all neuroscience postdocs!
Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed.
Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 30 June:
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
It does not happen often that a Current Biology review is turned into a YouTube video, but when it is done like this here by Anton Petrov, it is something that should happen more often!👁️👁️👁️
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LP3...
Thanks for the invite and looking forward :)
Delighted that a new online talk is up for viewz on Youtube: "Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye". Thanks to Marion Silies and Luisa Ramirez for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYJ....
I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp!
Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Led by @xinwei-wang.bsky.social , with additional contributions from Laura Steel, @chiarafornetto.bsky.social @dgonschorek.bsky.social @marvinh.dev, Timm Schubert, Stephan Neuhauss and @teuler.bsky.social
Our latest paper reveals that On-Off coding is a latent and intrinsic property of visual circuits, dynamically regulated across many different levels of processing, rather than just a single synaptic switch.
Check out the full paper here: 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...