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Excited to announce that the preliminary program for the Cephalopod Neuroscience GRC is now online! .Applications are now open! Attendance is limited so be sure to register early in case space fills up!.

RT @thecocodium: I am looking for a new postdoc to join the lab. Interested in pluripotency, germ cells, and in investigating these in a ge….

Officially starting a joint project with @SeuntjensLab and Oleg Simakov lab- studying the link between genomes, gene expression and cell type diversity in #Cephalopod brains! .Open positions to apply-.Please RT!

We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods and #Drosophila-.please RT

RT @SwissDementia: Welcome @simon_sprecher to our association!🧠 At @unifr, Simon’s lab uses genomics & AI to uncover dementia's genetic roo….

One day on Bluesky and the feed is busy- you’ll find virtually everything you get on Twitter/X see you on the other side .

RT @JM_Gahan: Happy to share that the Gahan lab will be branching out (or more like returning) to working on Nematostella in the near futur….

Yep!!! One of these weeks….

RT @unifrBiology: This year, the Department of Biology @unifrBiology will support outstanding young scientists who.aim to apply for the S….

never doubt the capacity of molecular reagents!!! ;-).

Wow- blows my mind… very cool!.

Lead by @Neuro_komarov in collaboration with @BartDeplancke and Jae Young Kwon.

Investigating the role of sensory receptor genes, we show that C7 depends on Gr21a/Gr63a for CO2 sensing, while these receptors are dispensable for sucrose or mechanical perception. Thus the gustatory neurons already integrate the breadth of sensory experience during eating.

- Using genetically encoded Calcium sensors we show that certain gustatory neurons are in fact responding to both chemical as well as mechanical stimulation. -We identify one a sucrose-sensitive / mechanosensitve neuron as the previously described C7- neuron.

The gustatory organ-specific split-Gal4 showed that beside taste coding, also mechanical cues are sensed by the gustatory organs. Indeed, in the single-cell data we observe expression of genes involved in mechanosensation.

Using a custom-made single-cell transcriptomics approach we characterize the taste and olfactory organs;.- Based on the single-cell data we created a genetic tool (Split-Gal4) that uniquely covers gustatory- organs in the fruit fly (comparable to Orco for the study of olfaction).

Here we show that there are sensory neurons that perceive both chemical and mechanical stimulation. We use the fruit fly larva as genetic model and identify multisensory "gustatory receptor" neurons- a completely novel and suprising tuning of sensory cells.

Eating is a multisensory experience- we do not simply "taste" the food we enjoy, we also take into account its texture and visual appeal!.What about the food texture? We know very little about this part of the eating experience- .

How did brains/CNS evolve and how do they compare in early diverging bilaterians?.The nervous system of Xenacoelomorpha are an important proxy, to understand neurogenesis to behavior! .Here an update on recent advances, thanks to Pedro to pushing this forward!!!.