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We have two advertised fully-funded PhD positions to work on memory or disease models in Drosophila! Please check the SWBio DTP website for more information and reach out if you are interested:
www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...
www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...
Molecular Mechanisms & Pathways projects – SWBiosciences Doctoral Training Partnership
www.swbio.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We have two advertised fully-funded PhD positions to work on memory or disease models in Drosophila! Please check the SWBio DTP website for more information and reach out if you are interested:
www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...
www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...
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Great week in the lab, including the Carver College of Medicine Investiture. Thank you to the Roy J. Carver Charitable Foundation for supporting our research. It was an honor to reflect on, and speak about, the influence of my mentors, and the work of our lab members, past and present (pictured).
September 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Great week in the lab, including the Carver College of Medicine Investiture. Thank you to the Roy J. Carver Charitable Foundation for supporting our research. It was an honor to reflect on, and speak about, the influence of my mentors, and the work of our lab members, past and present (pictured).
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How do we balance innate responses & adaptive learning when reacting to threats? @tjryan.bsky.social &co show that repeated exposure to looming stimuli reduces innate defensive responses via #hippocampal modulation, revealing a vCA1 engram needed for learned #fear @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4pNSnNp
September 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
How do we balance innate responses & adaptive learning when reacting to threats? @tjryan.bsky.social &co show that repeated exposure to looming stimuli reduces innate defensive responses via #hippocampal modulation, revealing a vCA1 engram needed for learned #fear @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4pNSnNp
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An absolutely awful turn of events. I am heartbroken over the firing of the Flybase staff. Thanks to @claudia-lopez.bsky.social for covering this important story.
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
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Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
An absolutely awful turn of events. I am heartbroken over the firing of the Flybase staff. Thanks to @claudia-lopez.bsky.social for covering this important story.
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🧠 Our latest paper is out!
Here, we show that Ataxin-2 is essential for memory formation via RNP granule dynamics in Drosophila.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0167...
#Neuroscience #Memory #RNA #Drosophila #NewPaper
@tamaraboto.bsky.social @simon-sprecher.bsky.social
Here, we show that Ataxin-2 is essential for memory formation via RNP granule dynamics in Drosophila.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0167...
#Neuroscience #Memory #RNA #Drosophila #NewPaper
@tamaraboto.bsky.social @simon-sprecher.bsky.social
The ataxin-2 protein is required in kenyon cells for RNP-granule assembly and appetitive long-term memory formation
Ribonucleoprotein granules (mRNP granules) are thought to contribute to the control of neuronal mRNA translation required for consolidation of long-term memories. Consistent with this, the function...
doi.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🧠 Our latest paper is out!
Here, we show that Ataxin-2 is essential for memory formation via RNP granule dynamics in Drosophila.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0167...
#Neuroscience #Memory #RNA #Drosophila #NewPaper
@tamaraboto.bsky.social @simon-sprecher.bsky.social
Here, we show that Ataxin-2 is essential for memory formation via RNP granule dynamics in Drosophila.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0167...
#Neuroscience #Memory #RNA #Drosophila #NewPaper
@tamaraboto.bsky.social @simon-sprecher.bsky.social
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📣 Recruiting a PhD Student! 🇪🇸
Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level.
Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social
Apply by early Sept.
#PhD #Memory #Neuroscience
Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level.
Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social
Apply by early Sept.
#PhD #Memory #Neuroscience
August 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
📣 Recruiting a PhD Student! 🇪🇸
Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level.
Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social
Apply by early Sept.
#PhD #Memory #Neuroscience
Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level.
Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social
Apply by early Sept.
#PhD #Memory #Neuroscience
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Latest preprint from our lab, describing how cellular signaling changes in neurofibromatosis type 1 affect two behavioral and metabolic phenotypes. Loss of Nf1 increases Ras, but these phenotypes differ in their dependence on downstream signaling. #neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Latest preprint from our lab, describing how cellular signaling changes in neurofibromatosis type 1 affect two behavioral and metabolic phenotypes. Loss of Nf1 increases Ras, but these phenotypes differ in their dependence on downstream signaling. #neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New Preprint from the lab, and the second half of Elizabeth Hodge’s masters project - we dived into whether shifts in visual #foraging behaviours and spatial #memory in #Heliconius involved changes in sensory systems🧪 1/n
Conservation of sensory pathways implies a localised change in the mushroom bodies is associated with cognitive evolution in Heliconius butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663516v1
July 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New Preprint from the lab, and the second half of Elizabeth Hodge’s masters project - we dived into whether shifts in visual #foraging behaviours and spatial #memory in #Heliconius involved changes in sensory systems🧪 1/n
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We're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share!
Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Deadline: 10 July
More info here: www.rezavallab.org
Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share!
Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Deadline: 10 July
More info here: www.rezavallab.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share!
Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Deadline: 10 July
More info here: www.rezavallab.org
Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share!
Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Deadline: 10 July
More info here: www.rezavallab.org