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Silke Sachse
@silkesachse.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, Professor @uni-wuerzburg.de,
Chair of Neurobiology & Genetics,
former GroupLeader @mpi-ce.bsky.social,
studying the neural basis of olfaction 🧠🪰

Lab website:
https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/neurogenetics/research/wg-sachse/
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Silke Sachse @silkesachse.bsky.social · Dec 4
In the name of filling Bluesky with science: I am happy to highlight our recent study showing a novel odor coding rule in migratory locusts by genetically expressing GCaMP in olfactory neurons!
Please find details here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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uni-wuerzburg.de
Bayern und die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de haben sich darauf verständigt, in Würzburg ein Max-Planck-Institut 🔬 aufzubauen. Unipräsident Paul Pauli: "Das ist ein starkes Zeichen für den Wissenschaftsstandort Würzburg." go.uniwue.de/mpg-wue 📷 Mindcore
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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uni-wuerzburg.de
A tiny neural network is sufficient to control the daily rhythm of the fruit fly: New paper out in @pnas.org s.org by @nils-reinhard.bsky.social and @flyingclocks.bsky.social ingclocks.bsky.social. Only four specialized nerve cells drive the animals' endogenous clock.
go.uniwue.de/circadianclock
The clock network of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (gray). The clock neurons of the core clock, which form the minimal circuit of the internal clock, are highlighted in color. The four dorsal clock neurons examined in the study are marked in magenta, while the remaining neurons of the core clock are marked in blue. (Photo: Nils Reinhard)
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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mpi-ce.bsky.social
We are very proud - yesterday, Somasundar Arumugam successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Exploring innate and learned sensory behaviors in Drosophila under natural and perturbed context".
He was supervised by Prof. Silke Sachse.
Congratulations!!!!
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
silkesachse.bsky.social
Very happy that my PhD student Soma Arumugam successfully defended his thesis at the @mpi-ce.bsky.social today! Big congrats Soma! Well done!!! 🎉🥳
Soma receiving his doctoral cap! Proud soma with flowers and gifts!
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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pbrand.bsky.social
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint

We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion.

Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit

shorturl.at/gGYm7
a group of Drosophila erecta fruit flies on a small food patch. flies on white background
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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bentonlab.bsky.social
I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology.
Apply here by Nov 30th!
(thanks for reposting)

career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Career Opportunities: Posdoctoral researcher in toxin susceptibility and evolution of resistance in insects (22517)
career5.successfactors.eu
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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jefferis.bsky.social
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
October 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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bentonlab.bsky.social
Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection
Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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uhl-lab.bsky.social
We had a great European Symposium for Insect Taste and Olfaction, ESITO, on Sardinia where I was invited to talk about evolutionary aspects. This was how spiders entered an insect meeting 😉.🕷🧪
#SilkeSachse and #MarkusKnaden for organizing it!
Lovely decorated cream cake especially made for the social dinner of the symposium. The logo of the symposium was printed on marzipan.
September 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
silkesachse.bsky.social
It was an incredible week at ESITO 2025 in Sardinia filled with exciting science, vibrant discussions in a pleasant atmosphere! 🪰🐝🐜🌴🌊
Huge thanks to all participants! Hope you all have a safe trip home! See you in 2027!
September 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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maxplanck.de
Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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rockefeller.edu
New research from @danielkronauer.bsky.social's lab in @pnas.org sheds light on how a young ant’s future is determined by genetics and the environment, finding that genes not only influence size, they change what a given size means for the colony. #RockefellerScience
How ant queens are made - News
Daniel Kronauer’s research on an unusual ant species illuminates the biochemistry and genetics behind complex social behavior—and potentially offers clues to the evolution of our own social brains.
www.rockefeller.edu
July 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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pingkalai.bsky.social
Two days left....
Abstract submission is opened until Sunday 15th June 2025
Clocks for Life - a life's journey in chronobiology
Farewell symposium Prof. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
#GermanClockClub #Drosophila #CircadianClock @uni-wuerzburg.de @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @flyneuro.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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dfg.de
#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...
Walter Benjamin Programme Monday, 26 May 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. CET
May 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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dzg2025berlin.bsky.social
👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩
March 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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neuroethology.org
Open university professor (W3) position for #BehavioralPhysiology in Würzburg, Germany @uni-wuerzburg.de: ↘️ www.nature.com/naturecareer... ↙️ Share or apply 🤗 #InsectResearch 🧪🐝🐜🦟
University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg - Faculty of Biology | 12839249
The University of Würzburg is offering a position of a University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) (Chair of Zoology II).
www.nature.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
silkesachse.bsky.social
Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅
We are happy to announce that the registration has started for the upcoming ESITO 2025 meeting taking place September 19-24, 2025 in Sardinia, Italy.
Please register and submit your abstract here: events.gwdg.de/e/esito2025
Deadline: July 1st!
Beach at Hotel Cormoran in Sardinia, Italy.
April 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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mpi-ce.bsky.social
Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier! New study from Ian Keesey, Bill Hansson et al. in Science Advances shows that alcohol boosts sex pheromone production in male D. melanogaster, making them more attractive to females. But too much is a turnoff!
www.ice.mpg.de/493119/PR_Ke...
Alcohol makes male flies sexy
Alcohol consumption has a direct and positive effect on the mating success of male fruit flies. This effect is due to the increased production of sex pheromones after alcohol consumption: males who ha...
www.ice.mpg.de
April 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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modolfor.bsky.social
Our Symposium takes place tomorrow at the Sternwarte in Göttingen. We are looking forward to exciting talks from @nawrot.bsky.social, @xenofrog.bsky.social, Lisa Scheunemann, Andre Fiala and Celine Riera. What a great start of the #NWG meeting @neurowissg.bsky.social
modolfor.bsky.social MODOLFOR @modolfor.bsky.social · Nov 20
Join us for the MODOLFOR Satellite Symposium on Modulation of Olfaction at the 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society in spring 2025 🐭🐝👃
@neurowissg.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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gdwberlin.bsky.social
Heute am #Weltfrauentag erinnern wir an #FrauenImWiderstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Sie bezahlten diesen Kampf oft mit ihrem Leben.
Mehr über ihre Biografien: https://www.frauen-im-widerstand-33-45.de
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
silkesachse.bsky.social
It‘s finally official! I am thrilled to start at the Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics at the @uni-wuerzburg.de on April 1st! I am very grateful to all my mentors, group members, collaborators and friends without whom I could not have achieved this. Please come & visit beautiful Wuerzburg soon!
Official appointment by the president of the University of Wuerzburg.
March 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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uni-konstanz.de
Latest #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social + @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @science.org study shows: Classical models of collective behaviour fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms: t1p.de/bmwst @sercansayin.bsky.social @einatcouzin.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
Science fuels economic opportunity—creating jobs, driving education, and supporting mobility. We're standing up for science to protect the critical infrastructure that makes this possible.

Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th!
#scienceforall #standupforscience2025
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March 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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hannazwaka.bsky.social
Go vote! Never again is now!
February 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
silkesachse.bsky.social
You can rely on Berlin-Kreuzberg!!! #bundestagswahl #noafd
Banner against nazis in Berlin Kreuzberg.
February 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM