Baier Lab MPI for Biological Intelligence 🇮🇱
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Exploring genes, circuits, and behavior in zebrafish since 1998. Current focus on fish cognitive neuroscience and building a next-gen brain atlas.
Martinsried near Munich
Joined November 2022
Neuronal diversity is written in transcriptional codes 🧬. But what is the logic of these codes that define cell types and wiring patterns? To find out we built a #scRNAseq developmental atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord and linked it to the #connectome 🪰🧠 Tweeprint! ⬇️1/8
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New preprint on nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish. Work by Swantje Grätsch and our tireless cichlid team.
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Across animal taxa, nest-building behavior is performed using a generalizable and flexible mental representation of an action sequence – a ‘schema’. In order to accomplish its goal (a stable nest),...
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Here’s the press release. Accolades to co-first authors Duncan Mearns @duncan_mearns and (aptly named) Sydney Hunt @syddoingscience. Brilliant collaboration! https://t.co/QrEirmuudR
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Researchers have described how fish larvae rely on species-specific combinations of vision and movement to detect and capture prey.
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Paper alert! Comparative ethology of hunting maneuvers in larvae of 5 fish species, long diverged from zebrafish.
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The evolution of hunting behavior in fish larvae has arrived at different, species-specific solutions, recombining a shared repertoire of locomotor and eye movement motifs.
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Tenure-track faculty search of the @Ucsf_Biochem Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community! https://t.co/o8SJlLNNlg
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Honoring excellence 👏 The American Philosophical Society @AmPhilSociety recognizes Gilles Laurent with the 2025 Karl Spencer Lashley Award for his groundbreaking studies on information coding and processing in the central nervous system @maxplanckpress👉 https://t.co/DTIamvRFeW
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Now out in #NatureNeuroscience: new paper from our lab — "Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice." Congrats to first authors Ann Bright, Yana Kotlyarenko, Florian Neuhaus! https://t.co/kBapSwIMgk
nature.com
Nature Neuroscience - Unlike cortical progenitors, ventral telencephalic progenitors retain the ability to generate diverse neuron types during neurogenesis. Here, the authors show that ventral...
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"I look forward to the day when Israeli scientists can freely collaborate with scientists in Iran and do good for the region and for humanity. I wish the same for scientists in Gaza and throughout the Middle East". Proud to be part of @WeizmannScience
https://t.co/5WQBmQpQap
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Nature - Scientific research is at the heart of Israel’s success and has worldwide benefits. Our work will continue despite adversity.
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Latest from my lab: we identify and characterize the function of binocular neurons zebrafish larvae use to hunt prey; https://t.co/lVxDLnc0vi. Congrats to Richard Tian, Gewei Yan and Tommy Lam @tkclam!
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Congratulations to Profs. Avraham Levy, Gilad Perez, Shalev Itzkovitz, Lucio Frydman, Nachum Ulanovsky and Steffen Jung, upon being awarded the ERC Advanced Grant 2024 #ERCAdG @ERC_Research
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As Tobias said, this may not be the biggest award in a lifetime, but often the first—& a powerful push to keep going in science. That’s true for me! Thank you Tobias Bonhoeffer& Manfred Gahr for the warm welcome. Uhl foundation 🙏! And great to see Ruediger again!@MPIforBI
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Horrific - rockets on the Weizmann institute, a close ally with many scientist friends. Our thoughts are with you!! @WeizmannScience @maxplanckpress
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Thank you, our dear friends, for the warm words and offer to help. Weizmann was hit by a missile last night- a real nightmare😭. Thank God no one is hurt, but there’s significant damage to many labs. I’m stuck abroad, waiting desperately to be able to go home to my family and lab
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Our latest work is out today in @NeuroCellPress . Using voltage imaging, we clarified how serotonergic neurons compute action effectiveness during learning behavior. With Ravid Haruvi, @zq_wei and @MishaAhrens
https://t.co/D1pl5LFfHW
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🧪Researchers, led by @T___Kawashima @zq_wei & @MishaAhrens, are decoding how neurons carry out computations carefully calibrated to an animal’s movement & environment to precisely regulate the release of neuromodulators. https://t.co/rXRIBUEGft
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Researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus are decoding how neurons carry out computations carefully calibrated to an animal’s movement and environment to precisely regulate the release of neuromod
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Preprint Alert! How does the brain distinguish different types of optic flow? We combined CaMPARI2 labeling with single-cell RNA-seq (CaMPARI-seq) to dissect visual circuits in zebrafish. Read the full study here 👉
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The #ShawPrize in Life Science & Medicine 2025 is awarded to Wolfgang Baumeister for his pioneering development & use of cryo-ET, an imaging technique that enables 3D visualisation of biological samples as they exist in their natural cellular settings. @MPI_Biochem
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I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!
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The peer-reviewed version of expansion in situ genome sequencing is now out in Science! The news is bittersweet – when we first revealed this last September, I never guessed it would be my final paper in academia, but a lot has changed. A few parting thoughts:
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Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; https://t.co/ocMsFdVbbT publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & for myself, expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry work to the service
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