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A pioneering research center where scientists from many disciplines collaborate on science's most challenging problems. https://t.co/Jeu3KqBBI9
Ashburn, VA
Joined October 2013
📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://t.co/oNKFiNXDtC
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📢 Applications are open! Join us June 4–18, 2026 @HHMIJanelia for lectures, exercises, and project work applying #DeepLearning to #Microscopy image analysis. #BioimageAnalysis 🛏️ No registration fee; meals & lodging covered ➡️ Learn more and apply by Jan 15 @
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ICYMI: A team of researchers unveiled the complete connectome of an entire male fruit fly central nervous system, encompassing the central brain, optic lobes, and ventral nerve cord.
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A team of researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of
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Today, the #INNSightForum and @ParkinsonsGT welcome speaker, Joshua Dudman from @HHMIJanelia! Join us for this co-sponsored session on how dopamine shapes early learning at 11:15 a.m. in the Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128) or online | 🗓️ https://t.co/sTB80CZtS7
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Join the team at Janelia to use #theory, computation, and modeling to tackle bold questions in #biology. Collaborate across scientific disciplines to drive discovery. Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://t.co/bsq7vYosM4
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🦠 New research provides a mechanism for understanding how environmental changes to somatic cells are passed through the germline, helping scientists better understand transgenerational effects, like the malnutrition of a parent affecting its offspring. https://t.co/tPHa2M4E0s
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🌟 Apply to lead a lab at Janelia 🌟 We’re #hiring Group Leaders in our Computation & Theory research area. 🔹 5-year renewable appointment 🔹 Internal funding + generous resources 🔹 Collaboration across disciplines 📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://t.co/oNKFiNXDtC
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🪘Congrats to Research Scientist Igor Siwanowicz: 5th & 8th place in the 2025 @NikonSmallWorld Photomicrography Competition for images of spores of a small tropical fern & mallow pollen germinating on stigma while being parasitized by a filamentous fungus. https://t.co/U3lHA9oM0l
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🧞Like its namesake, Janelia’s GENIE Project Team makes wishes come true. Luckily for biologists, this genie doesn’t grant just 3 requests. 🧪Learn about how GENIE has accelerated the development of best-in-class sensors for measuring neuronal activity.
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For more than a decade, the GENIE Project Team at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has collaborated with the research campus’s tool developers and tool users to take innovative biological sensors from
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🧠 A new wiring diagram of the 166,000+ neurons in the brain & nerve cord of a male fruit fly is a key tool in uncovering how the brain enables complex behavior—information that could ultimately help scientists understand what causes different diseases ➡️ https://t.co/hTLycFyEK5
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Our Simulated Bodies conference dives into whole-body biomechanical simulation across model organisms, from automated behavior analysis to anatomical microscopy + physics engines. 🛏️ Hotel, meals & registration covered ➡️ Apply by Nov 21 @ https://t.co/DnVyd3FBWJ
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Organizers Srini Turaga, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Wyatt Korff, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Bing Brunton, University of Washington Vikash Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
📢 Applications are open! Join us in May to explore computational simulation of biomechanical body models, bridging #neuroethology, #ML, physics simulation & computer vision.🧠🤖 👁 🛏️ Hotel, meals & registration covered ➡️ Apply by Nov. 21 @ https://t.co/DnVyd3F47b
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📢Apply by Dec. 3 for our joint graduate programs with @HopkinsMedicine in neuroscience & cross-disciplinary biology. 🧠Develop interdisciplinary research projects 🌍Join a highly collaborative environment 🔬Leverage shared resources & support teams ➡️ https://t.co/1D7PQBD5rk
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🔊 Listen to Senior Group Leader Hari Shroff discuss microscopy, biology and his path through science in the latest episode of @AshokaUniv's The Science of It podcast:
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🧪 Join us in May to dive into tools that measure, perturb, and reveal cell/tissue networks, plus methods & applications driving new biological insights. #ChemicalBiology 🛏️ Lodging + meals covered ➡️ Apply by Dec 5 @ https://t.co/GFwWeUERRR
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Organizers Luke Lavis, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University Zev Gartner, University of California, San Francisco Jennifer Prescher, University of California, Irvine
📢 Announcing ChemTools 2026! This meeting will focus on: 🧪Platforms & tools for analyzing cell/tissue networks ⚡ Methods to perturb biological networks 🔍Applications that yield new insights 🛏️ Lodging + meals covered ➡️ Apply by Dec 5 @ https://t.co/GFwWeUERRR
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🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them. 🔗 https://t.co/F3ElzePkCo
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Become a Theory Fellow @HHMIJanelia 🧪 Work alongside experimentalists to test and refine theories 🎯 Receive mentorship from leading computational scientists 🔁 Contribute to Janelia’s cross-disciplinary research environment Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://t.co/bsq7vYosM4
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🥼 New research from the Wang Lab reveals a novel connection between lysosomes & the epigenome and provides new insights into how lysosomes regulate longevity over generations & drive the histone-based transfer of epigenetic information between cells. 🔗 https://t.co/xiOgp1WbGN
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📢 Applications are open! Join us to explore new tools, methods & theory at the intersection of mechanics & #metabolism across scales, from tissue microenvironments to morphogenesis. #mechanobiology 🛏️ Lodging & meals covered Apply by Jan 8 @ https://t.co/eb8DhYFoHA
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✨ ICYMI: Researchers detail how neurotransmitter receptors in the fly brain change during development ➡️
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New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation
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🪱New research from the Wang Lab @mengwang939 shows how changes in a worm’s lysosomes promoting longevity are transmitted to its offspring through the epigenome, revealing how epigenetic modifications that help organisms cope with stress can be inherited.
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A tulip-shaped image of a worm shows the intestine on the left and the germline on the right. Green highlights histone H3 lysine 79 dimethylation, while magenta marks cell nuclei stained with DAPI.
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🥼 Working with tool developers & support teams, Janelia’s GENIE Project Team created next generation sensors for detecting the neurotransmitters glutamate & GABA and adapted a new tool aimed at controlling & studying specific neural circuits in flies. 🔗 https://t.co/A09G7Vatvd
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