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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 2h

Grab some popcorn and check out this fantastic "post-orial" from the soon-to-be-Dr. @miah-pitcher.bsky.social This story has everything: movies of retinal waves, explanations of dendritic integration, images of starburst cells. Enjoy!

Miah Pitcher @miah-pitcher.bsky.social · 3h

I’m very excited to announce that a part of my PhD thesis project is now a preprint! In this paper, we show how spontaneous activity prior to visual experience shapes neural circuits in the retina. (1/11)

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4h

Retinal waves shape starburst amacrine cell dendrite development through a direction-selective dendritic computation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.701812v1

Miah Pitcher @miah-pitcher.bsky.social · 3h

I’m very excited to announce that a part of my PhD thesis project is now a preprint! In this paper, we show how spontaneous activity prior to visual experience shapes neural circuits in the retina. (1/11)

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4h

Retinal waves shape starburst amacrine cell dendrite development through a direction-selective dendritic computation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.701812v1

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 1d

yes!

Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 1d

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.

By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!

samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 1d

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.

By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!

samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 14d

finally - some good news!

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 14d

Stand Up for NCAR! Link in our bio!

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28d

Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type kappa (PTPRκ) regulates Superior ON-Direction Selective Ganglion Cell development, facilitating image stabilization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698158v1

Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social · 28d

📽 G&D Tapes 📽

G&D Author, Christina McNerney, tells us about their new study in #genesdev showing how enzyme DIO3 coordinates photoreceptor development.

Read the full story here:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/1-2/70.full

Christina McNerney Bob Johnston Johns Hopkins University
#vision

Samer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 28d

A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon. rdcu.be/eX1Ld

ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime

Nature - The inability of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells to shift the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus during daytime is caused by light-dependent depolarization...

rdcu.be

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Dec 31

is that gray in that beard?

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Dec 19

Self renewing pools of mitochondria at axon branch points to support those loooooong axons. great thread and fascinating finding from colleague @samlewis.bsky.social Congrats to all!

Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · Dec 18

⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Self-renewal of neuronal mitochondria through asymmetric division

Mitochondrial ATP production is essential for life. Mitochondrial function depends on the spatio-temporal coordination of nuclear and mitochondrial genome expression, yet how this coordination occurs ...

www.biorxiv.org

Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · Dec 18

⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Self-renewal of neuronal mitochondria through asymmetric division

Mitochondrial ATP production is essential for life. Mitochondrial function depends on the spatio-temporal coordination of nuclear and mitochondrial genome expression, yet how this coordination occurs ...

www.biorxiv.org

Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · Dec 18

Studying vision across light levels? Interested in rod photoreceptors and related (patho)physiology? Matteo Rizzi, Kate Powell and I wrote a review on rod photoreceptor activity at daylight doi.org/10.1016/j.vi... . Free access link here kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · Dec 18

New preprint on sensory cortex dysfunction in Scn2a+/- mouse. Profoundly degraded sensory tuning and maps in S1--most dramatic of any ASD model. And rescued in post-critical period adults with CRISPRa.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Degraded sensory coding in a mouse model of Scn2a-related disorder and its rescue by CRISPRa gene activation

Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in SCN2A , a sodium channel gene expressed in cortical pyramidal (PYR) cells, lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by autism, intellectual disabi...

www.biorxiv.org

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Dec 17

congrats to all!

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Dec 17

Creative and important study for understanding visual processing.

Keisuke Yonehara @keisukeyonehara.bsky.social · Dec 17

Excited to share our new work on visual information processing in the retinocollicular pathway. We discovered that while luminance responses can predict motion responses in retinal ganglion cells, this prediction does not hold in the superior colliculus cells.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway

Schwartz and Matsumoto et al. show that visual feature selectivity for luminance and motion is coupled in the retina but becomes decoupled in the superior colliculus. This transformation reorganizes t...

www.cell.com

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Dec 17

Studying how mice see is giving neuroscientists new insight into how the human brain turns light into vision 👀

theconversation.com/gazing-into-... 🧪

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly

It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision is shaped by their environment and behavior can clarify the same in people.

theconversation.com

Keisuke Yonehara @keisukeyonehara.bsky.social · Dec 17

Excited to share our new work on visual information processing in the retinocollicular pathway. We discovered that while luminance responses can predict motion responses in retinal ganglion cells, this prediction does not hold in the superior colliculus cells.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway

Schwartz and Matsumoto et al. show that visual feature selectivity for luminance and motion is coupled in the retina but becomes decoupled in the superior colliculus. This transformation reorganizes t...

www.cell.com

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Dec 11

Thanks @nicolecrust.bsky.social for forwarding the tweets and the perspective. What an incredible opportunity for an incredible scientist. Proud day for #neuroscience at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Dec 10

This is HUGE! (Read it!!). I'll be cheering Doris and Astera Neuro on the entire way. Doris is a genius, both in the scope of her vision and in making things happen (that combination is rare). SO EXCITING! I can't wait to see what Astera Neuro discovers.

astera.org/neuroscienti...

Neuroscientist Doris Tsao joins Astera to lead its new neuroscience program - Astera

The Astera Institute is excited to launch a major new neuroscience research effort led by Dr. Doris Tsao, who will be joining as Chief Scientist for Astera Neuro. We seek to understand one of the deep...

astera.org

Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Dec 10

This is HUGE! (Read it!!). I'll be cheering Doris and Astera Neuro on the entire way. Doris is a genius, both in the scope of her vision and in making things happen (that combination is rare). SO EXCITING! I can't wait to see what Astera Neuro discovers.

astera.org/neuroscienti...

Neuroscientist Doris Tsao joins Astera to lead its new neuroscience program - Astera

The Astera Institute is excited to launch a major new neuroscience research effort led by Dr. Doris Tsao, who will be joining as Chief Scientist for Astera Neuro. We seek to understand one of the deep...

astera.org

Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D. @rose-hill.bsky.social · Dec 4

Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

www.sciencedirect.com

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · Nov 25

Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social

>20 review articles on Interoception

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Interoception 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Neurobiology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

Hollya @hollygophoton.bsky.social · Nov 18

Announcing the Inaugural Fluorescence Advanced Imaging Research Workshop
sites.uci.edu/aimlfdworksh... A joint effort between UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, bringing together the cutting edge talks of AIM and the intensive hands-on experience of the LFD Workshop. #microscopy #fluorescence

LFD/AIM Workshop 2026

sites.uci.edu

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Nov 6

I cannot stop thinking about this video....heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing.

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Nov 6

There is a matching campaign today for the Berkeley Basic Needs Center to help @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social students dealing with reduced CalFresh (SNAP) benefits. Give if you can! crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580

Support Basic Needs at Berkeley!

Help UC Berkeley students access food during the government shutdown.

crowdfund.berkeley.edu

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Nov 4

fantastic - congratulations!

Ben Sivyer @bensivyer.bsky.social · Nov 4

We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.

Chiara Fornetto @chiarafornetto.bsky.social · Nov 4

Excited to share our paper now published in Cell!
'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background'

Huge thanks to @neurofishh.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social

@cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social

👇🏻
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background

Vertebrate eyes first evolved in water, where spectral content rapidly fades with distance. Zebrafish exploit this loss by antagonizing cone signals to suppress the background, pointing to distance es...

www.cell.com

Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Nov 3

Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

facultypositions.stanford.edu

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Nov 1

Run-roh! Dr. Karina Bistrong’s last day in the lab. It was celebrated Scooby-Doo style 🐾🔍 She’s off to NYU for a postdoc with the exciting new lab run by @alicemosberger@bluesky.social — onward to solving the mysteries of motor systems!

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