Vanessa Stempel
@avstempel.bsky.social
Group Leader at MPI Brain Research, studying instinctive behaviours. Interested in the brainstem, cortex not so much. she/her
ORCID 0000-0003-0420-7765
ORCID 0000-0003-0420-7765
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🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
July 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
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1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits
Sequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching.
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
May 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching.
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
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What about visiting a neuroscience conference in Europe this year? There is still time to register for IBNS in Tromsø (June 24th-29th 2025)! Please like and share! For more information: www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #neuroskyence
April 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What about visiting a neuroscience conference in Europe this year? There is still time to register for IBNS in Tromsø (June 24th-29th 2025)! Please like and share! For more information: www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #neuroskyence
Very happy to announce a workshop I'm co-organising with Marion Silies and @crltt.bsky.social, taking place 2-4 Sept in Ingelheim, Germany!
'Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function', hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops @unimainz.bsky.social & with a fantastic line-up!
Details below 🔻
'Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function', hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops @unimainz.bsky.social & with a fantastic line-up!
Details below 🔻
April 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Very happy to announce a workshop I'm co-organising with Marion Silies and @crltt.bsky.social, taking place 2-4 Sept in Ingelheim, Germany!
'Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function', hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops @unimainz.bsky.social & with a fantastic line-up!
Details below 🔻
'Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function', hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops @unimainz.bsky.social & with a fantastic line-up!
Details below 🔻
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Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Computing Cords: Sensorimotor Control by Nerve Cord Circuits Across Species
Organizers Salil Bidaye, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne Graziana Gatto, University of Cologne Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet Julie
www.janelia.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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The application deadline for the Sensation and Action conference 2025 is fast approaching! Join us for an exciting set of talks and for a chance to share your ideas: www.lakeconferences.org
Home - Lake Conferences
www.lakeconferences.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The application deadline for the Sensation and Action conference 2025 is fast approaching! Join us for an exciting set of talks and for a chance to share your ideas: www.lakeconferences.org
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Congratulations to @mpibrain.bsky.social director Gilles Laurent for being awarded the 2025 Louis-Jeantet prize for Medicine! The @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social recognizes Laurent's pioneering work on the operations of #neurons and dynamics of neuronal networks. More infos 👉 bit.ly/4hqk6ie
Gilles Laurent is awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2025
The 2025 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Gilles Laurent, director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and to Veit Hornung, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of ...
brain.mpg.de
January 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Congratulations to @mpibrain.bsky.social director Gilles Laurent for being awarded the 2025 Louis-Jeantet prize for Medicine! The @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social recognizes Laurent's pioneering work on the operations of #neurons and dynamics of neuronal networks. More infos 👉 bit.ly/4hqk6ie
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📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2025 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to VEIT HORNUNG @v-hornung.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social and to GILLES LAURENT @ maxplanck.de
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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January 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2025 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to VEIT HORNUNG @v-hornung.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social and to GILLES LAURENT @ maxplanck.de
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.
January 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.
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Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
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Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.
A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies - Nature
Peripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.
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New Year, New Challenge? About to finish your PhD or recently graduated? Ready to tackle brain circuits & mouse behavior using Neuropixels/2P imaging, and live in London? We’ve got the postdoc position for you. Apply by Dec 18th before it’s gone! 🧠 #PostdocLife #ScienceJobs
My lab University College London is looking for an experimental postdoc to join our team. Interested in circuits underlying visually guided behavior, chronic #Neuropixel recordings or 2-photon imaging (Benchtop, #Mini2p)? Then check out our lab homepage www.ruedigerlab.com, apply & spread the word
December 7, 2024 at 11:31 AM
New Year, New Challenge? About to finish your PhD or recently graduated? Ready to tackle brain circuits & mouse behavior using Neuropixels/2P imaging, and live in London? We’ve got the postdoc position for you. Apply by Dec 18th before it’s gone! 🧠 #PostdocLife #ScienceJobs
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We are hiring at NYU! An Assistant Professor position between the Department of Biology and the Center for Neural Science.
apply.interfolio.com/160048
Deadline Jan 8th
Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people
apply.interfolio.com/160048
Deadline Jan 8th
Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people
December 4, 2024 at 5:06 PM
We are hiring at NYU! An Assistant Professor position between the Department of Biology and the Center for Neural Science.
apply.interfolio.com/160048
Deadline Jan 8th
Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people
apply.interfolio.com/160048
Deadline Jan 8th
Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people
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Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.
Threads will follow!
We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.
Threads will follow!
December 2, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.
Threads will follow!
We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.
Threads will follow!
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OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
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I'm excited to share recent work led by my PhD student Cassidy Malone, with help from Patryk Ziobro. Given numerous reports that female mice produce USVs during courtship, we tested the idea that female courtship USVs are regulated by estrous state.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I'm excited to share recent work led by my PhD student Cassidy Malone, with help from Patryk Ziobro. Given numerous reports that female mice produce USVs during courtship, we tested the idea that female courtship USVs are regulated by estrous state.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network
Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!!
Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience!
🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4
🗓️20 January 2025
Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!!
Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience!
🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4
🗓️20 January 2025
November 26, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network
Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!!
Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience!
🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4
🗓️20 January 2025
Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!!
Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience!
🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4
🗓️20 January 2025
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Excited to publish a broad set of enhancers to target interneuron types in the brain, along with a broad set of collaborators. Part of the BI armamentarium. Together this will help revolutionize the targeting of brain circuits.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.17.603924v2
November 24, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Excited to publish a broad set of enhancers to target interneuron types in the brain, along with a broad set of collaborators. Part of the BI armamentarium. Together this will help revolutionize the targeting of brain circuits.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.17.603924v2
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Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education.
openstax.org/details/book...
openstax.org/details/book...
November 15, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education.
openstax.org/details/book...
openstax.org/details/book...
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This randomly popped up in my feed, and I've got to share it since it's just such a "never even thought about this" kind of paper: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Neuron membrane capacitance oscillates wildly during the day?! 🧪🧠
Neuron membrane capacitance oscillates wildly during the day?! 🧪🧠
Daily oscillations of neuronal membrane capacitance
Severin et al. describe time-of-day changes in membrane capacitance in excitatory
neurons from the visual cortex and hippocampus. Membrane capacitance is usually stable.
These daily variations could p...
www.cell.com
September 21, 2024 at 1:01 PM
This randomly popped up in my feed, and I've got to share it since it's just such a "never even thought about this" kind of paper: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Neuron membrane capacitance oscillates wildly during the day?! 🧪🧠
Neuron membrane capacitance oscillates wildly during the day?! 🧪🧠
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Did you see this coming? Abstract categorization in a so-called sensorimotor midbrain area.
Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition - Nature Neuroscience
Neuronal recordings show that primate superior colliculus encodes learned abstract visual categories. The authors demonstrate that it plays a causal role in categorization behavior, independent of its...
www.nature.com
September 19, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Did you see this coming? Abstract categorization in a so-called sensorimotor midbrain area.
Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
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A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy - Nature Neuroscience
Neural changes in pregnancy are not well understood. Here Pritschet et al. present an open-access precision brain imaging resource, mapping neuroanatomical change in an individual from preconception t...
www.nature.com
September 16, 2024 at 5:55 PM
A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain??
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A lot of what we do involves producing a sequence of movements, but how the CNS does that remains elusive.
A recent @elife.bsky.social paper by Mehrdad Kashefi, @andpru.bsky.social et al provides compellign behavioural evidence that we plan a few movements ahead
tinyurl.com/2j22x99n
#neuroskyence
A recent @elife.bsky.social paper by Mehrdad Kashefi, @andpru.bsky.social et al provides compellign behavioural evidence that we plan a few movements ahead
tinyurl.com/2j22x99n
#neuroskyence
Future movement plans interact in sequential arm movements
elifesciences.org
September 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
A lot of what we do involves producing a sequence of movements, but how the CNS does that remains elusive.
A recent @elife.bsky.social paper by Mehrdad Kashefi, @andpru.bsky.social et al provides compellign behavioural evidence that we plan a few movements ahead
tinyurl.com/2j22x99n
#neuroskyence
A recent @elife.bsky.social paper by Mehrdad Kashefi, @andpru.bsky.social et al provides compellign behavioural evidence that we plan a few movements ahead
tinyurl.com/2j22x99n
#neuroskyence
Very happy to receive an #ERC starting grant to study brainstem circuits for instinctive behaviours in mice. We're hiring postdocs and PhD students, if you're interested please email me!
This funding, part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, will be invested in scientific projects spanning all disciplines of research.
↓ Learn more about the Starting Grants and ERC.
ℹ️ europa.eu/!hrxyBp
↓ Learn more about the Starting Grants and ERC.
ℹ️ europa.eu/!hrxyBp
September 8, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Very happy to receive an #ERC starting grant to study brainstem circuits for instinctive behaviours in mice. We're hiring postdocs and PhD students, if you're interested please email me!