Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience
@neuropsi.bsky.social
Leading CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay research center dedicated to the study of the brain.
Website: neuropsi.cnrs.fr
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/institut-des-neurosciences-paris-saclay/
Youtube: youtube.com/@NeuroPSI-saclay
Website: neuropsi.cnrs.fr
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/institut-des-neurosciences-paris-saclay/
Youtube: youtube.com/@NeuroPSI-saclay
🐦 🗣️😴 What is the impact of behavioral state on the songbird vocal circuit?
Nicolas Giret @neuropsi.bsky.social & collaborators @ethz.ch, @neurobordeaux.bsky.social & @tumunich.bsky.social show the impact of sleep on this fascinating motor circuit, in an @sfnjournals.bsky.social publication 🔽🔽🔽
Nicolas Giret @neuropsi.bsky.social & collaborators @ethz.ch, @neurobordeaux.bsky.social & @tumunich.bsky.social show the impact of sleep on this fascinating motor circuit, in an @sfnjournals.bsky.social publication 🔽🔽🔽
Sharp waves, bursts, and coherence: Activity in a songbird vocal circuit is influenced by behavioral state
Similar to motor skill learning in mammals, vocal learning in songbirds requires a set of interconnected brain areas that make up an analogous basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit known as the anteri...
www.jneurosci.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🐦 🗣️😴 What is the impact of behavioral state on the songbird vocal circuit?
Nicolas Giret @neuropsi.bsky.social & collaborators @ethz.ch, @neurobordeaux.bsky.social & @tumunich.bsky.social show the impact of sleep on this fascinating motor circuit, in an @sfnjournals.bsky.social publication 🔽🔽🔽
Nicolas Giret @neuropsi.bsky.social & collaborators @ethz.ch, @neurobordeaux.bsky.social & @tumunich.bsky.social show the impact of sleep on this fascinating motor circuit, in an @sfnjournals.bsky.social publication 🔽🔽🔽
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🐦🎶Quand l’oiseau se tait, son cerveau continue de chanter. Le projet SleepinBrainDyn, financé par l'ANR et dirigé au @neuropsi.bsky.social à Saclay, révèle comment les neurones rejouent la leçon pendant le repos. Un éclairage inédit sur l’apprentissage moteur.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🐦🎶Quand l’oiseau se tait, son cerveau continue de chanter. Le projet SleepinBrainDyn, financé par l'ANR et dirigé au @neuropsi.bsky.social à Saclay, révèle comment les neurones rejouent la leçon pendant le repos. Un éclairage inédit sur l’apprentissage moteur.
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⁉️❔❓ The what, which, when, why and who of OFF responses in the auditory system ⁉️❔❓
Read this review of negative representations of sound across the auditory system in @jphysiol.bsky.social, by Jean-Marc Edeline @neuropsi.bsky.social and Robert Liu @emoryuniversity.bsky.social 🔽🔽🔽
Read this review of negative representations of sound across the auditory system in @jphysiol.bsky.social, by Jean-Marc Edeline @neuropsi.bsky.social and Robert Liu @emoryuniversity.bsky.social 🔽🔽🔽
The what, which, when, why and who of Off responses in the auditory system
Abstract figure legend In this article, we will first review ‘What’ different mechanisms are involved in the generation of Off responses at the sub-cortical and cortical level of the auditory system....
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
⁉️❔❓ The what, which, when, why and who of OFF responses in the auditory system ⁉️❔❓
Read this review of negative representations of sound across the auditory system in @jphysiol.bsky.social, by Jean-Marc Edeline @neuropsi.bsky.social and Robert Liu @emoryuniversity.bsky.social 🔽🔽🔽
Read this review of negative representations of sound across the auditory system in @jphysiol.bsky.social, by Jean-Marc Edeline @neuropsi.bsky.social and Robert Liu @emoryuniversity.bsky.social 🔽🔽🔽
🐒🐒🐒 Who sits next to whom? Who keeps their distance? It turns out that macaques space use reflects social bonds, hierarchy, and hidden group structures.
🐒🐒🐒 Learn more in the study by Tadeusz Kononowicz @neuropsi.bsky.social and collaborators at @isc-mj.bsky.social in Science Advances 🔽🔽🔽
🐒🐒🐒 Learn more in the study by Tadeusz Kononowicz @neuropsi.bsky.social and collaborators at @isc-mj.bsky.social in Science Advances 🔽🔽🔽
Spatio-temporal dynamics of ingroup interactions in macaques - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Spatio-temporal dynamics of ingroup interactions in macaques
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🐒🐒🐒 Who sits next to whom? Who keeps their distance? It turns out that macaques space use reflects social bonds, hierarchy, and hidden group structures.
🐒🐒🐒 Learn more in the study by Tadeusz Kononowicz @neuropsi.bsky.social and collaborators at @isc-mj.bsky.social in Science Advances 🔽🔽🔽
🐒🐒🐒 Learn more in the study by Tadeusz Kononowicz @neuropsi.bsky.social and collaborators at @isc-mj.bsky.social in Science Advances 🔽🔽🔽
🤯 👁️ Did you know the primary visual cortex tracks head movements even in complete darkness?
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
www.pnas.org
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🤯 👁️ Did you know the primary visual cortex tracks head movements even in complete darkness?
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
Guy Bouvier and colleagues managed to decode multiple head movement variables in V1 without light in the room, and discovered two distinct brain sources delivering these signals!
Read more in PNAS 🔽🔽
▶️ Mark the date! On May 28-29 2026, we will host and organize the next edition of the Chen Institute Symposia: Brain, Behavior & Beyond.
▶️ This year we will focus on New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases.
▶️ Stay tuned as we will soon disclose speakers and more!
▶️ This year we will focus on New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases.
▶️ Stay tuned as we will soon disclose speakers and more!
October 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
▶️ Mark the date! On May 28-29 2026, we will host and organize the next edition of the Chen Institute Symposia: Brain, Behavior & Beyond.
▶️ This year we will focus on New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases.
▶️ Stay tuned as we will soon disclose speakers and more!
▶️ This year we will focus on New Horizons in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases.
▶️ Stay tuned as we will soon disclose speakers and more!
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🍽 Des scientifiques de l'Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay) ont montré comment, chez la mouche drosophile, la faim agit sur des circuits cérébraux précis, influençant les comportements face au danger.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🍽 Des scientifiques de l'Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay) ont montré comment, chez la mouche drosophile, la faim agit sur des circuits cérébraux précis, influençant les comportements face au danger.
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Our new paper is out!! @jovaniclab.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
Check out if you are interested in behavior, neuromodulation and neural circuits.
Check out if you are interested in behavior, neuromodulation and neural circuits.
#ResultatScientifique Comment la faim influence-t-elle nos comportements ? Explorer le cerveau de la mouche pour mieux comprendre.
🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
✍️ Tihana Jovanic
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🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
✍️ Tihana Jovanic
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September 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Our new paper is out!! @jovaniclab.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
Check out if you are interested in behavior, neuromodulation and neural circuits.
Check out if you are interested in behavior, neuromodulation and neural circuits.
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#ResultatScientifique Comment la faim influence-t-elle nos comportements ? Explorer le cerveau de la mouche pour mieux comprendre.
🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
✍️ Tihana Jovanic
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🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
✍️ Tihana Jovanic
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September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#ResultatScientifique Comment la faim influence-t-elle nos comportements ? Explorer le cerveau de la mouche pour mieux comprendre.
🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
✍️ Tihana Jovanic
👉 buff.ly/6vFH2ZE
🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
✍️ Tihana Jovanic
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📄📑 New publication: the Jovanic team @neuropsi.bsky.social & collaborators from @pasteur.fr & @unicologne.bsky.social show that in Drosophila larva 🪱, an homologue of the vertebrate Neuropeptide Y modulates reciprocally connected inhibitory neurons to bias non-feeding decisions.
Learn more 🔽🔽🔽
Learn more 🔽🔽🔽
Feeding state-dependent neuropeptidergic modulation of reciprocally interconnected inhibitory neurons biases sensorimotor decisions in Drosophila - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying state-dependent flexible selection are not fully understood. Here authors show that NPY homologues in Drosophila larva differentially modulate reciprocally connected inhib...
www.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
📄📑 New publication: the Jovanic team @neuropsi.bsky.social & collaborators from @pasteur.fr & @unicologne.bsky.social show that in Drosophila larva 🪱, an homologue of the vertebrate Neuropeptide Y modulates reciprocally connected inhibitory neurons to bias non-feeding decisions.
Learn more 🔽🔽🔽
Learn more 🔽🔽🔽
A study from the Rouyer group shows how fruit flies 🪰 use a neuropeptide to translate environmental information into changes in neuropeptide levels, to adapt their sleep-wake behavior to summer days 😴😎.
Neuropeptide dynamics coordinate layered plasticity mechanisms adapting Drosophila circadian behavior to changing environment
Neuropeptide-guided plasticity of the clock neuron network operation enables behavioral adaptation to seasonal changes.
www.science.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A study from the Rouyer group shows how fruit flies 🪰 use a neuropeptide to translate environmental information into changes in neuropeptide levels, to adapt their sleep-wake behavior to summer days 😴😎.
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Deadline approaching: 22 Aug 2025!!!
Tenure-track Junior Professor (CPJ) in Multi-omics Cell Atlases of Brain Development
@neuropsi.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social
Details: www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/sites/defaul...
Apply via ODYSSEE: odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr
Tenure-track Junior Professor (CPJ) in Multi-omics Cell Atlases of Brain Development
@neuropsi.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social
Details: www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/sites/defaul...
Apply via ODYSSEE: odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr
August 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Deadline approaching: 22 Aug 2025!!!
Tenure-track Junior Professor (CPJ) in Multi-omics Cell Atlases of Brain Development
@neuropsi.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social
Details: www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/sites/defaul...
Apply via ODYSSEE: odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr
Tenure-track Junior Professor (CPJ) in Multi-omics Cell Atlases of Brain Development
@neuropsi.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social
Details: www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/sites/defaul...
Apply via ODYSSEE: odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr
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Les souris ont-elles aussi une représentation cognitive de leur corps ?
🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @lucestebanez.bsky.social @touchmovelab.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @plosbiology.org
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🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @lucestebanez.bsky.social @touchmovelab.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @plosbiology.org
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Les souris ont aussi une représentation cognitive riche de leur corps
L’illusion de la « main en caoutchouc » montre que la manipulation astucieuse de perceptions visuelles et tactiles peut nous convaincre en quel
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July 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Les souris ont-elles aussi une représentation cognitive de leur corps ?
🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @lucestebanez.bsky.social @touchmovelab.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @plosbiology.org
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🤝 @cnrs-paris-saclay.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social @lucestebanez.bsky.social @touchmovelab.bsky.social @neuropsi.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans @plosbiology.org
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🎉 L'interdisciplinarité est à l'oeuvre dans notre institut.
🤝 Nos liens forts avec la communauté des ingénieurs du L2S @centralesupelec.bsky.social nous valent le label PRIME de @cnrs.fr !
🤝 Nos liens forts avec la communauté des ingénieurs du L2S @centralesupelec.bsky.social nous valent le label PRIME de @cnrs.fr !
Le projet Neurocontrol : où les neurosciences rencontrent l’automatique – MITI
Retrouver l'interview des porteurs du projet Neurocontrol, fruit d’une collaboration entre neuroscientifiques et automaticiens
miti.cnrs.fr
July 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🎉 L'interdisciplinarité est à l'oeuvre dans notre institut.
🤝 Nos liens forts avec la communauté des ingénieurs du L2S @centralesupelec.bsky.social nous valent le label PRIME de @cnrs.fr !
🤝 Nos liens forts avec la communauté des ingénieurs du L2S @centralesupelec.bsky.social nous valent le label PRIME de @cnrs.fr !
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C'est une grande tristesse d'apprendre la mort d'Heather... C'était une personne d'une grande gentillesse et bienveillance, toujours à l'écoute et toujours disponible. Toutes mes pensées vont à sa famille et ses collègues.
C'est notre grande tristesse d'annoncer le décès de Heather McLean, Maitresse de Conférence en neuroscience à @univparissaclay.bsky.social, chercheuse à @neuropsi.bsky.social.
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
C'est une grande tristesse d'apprendre la mort d'Heather... C'était une personne d'une grande gentillesse et bienveillance, toujours à l'écoute et toujours disponible. Toutes mes pensées vont à sa famille et ses collègues.
🔬🐁 We have a new position open!
➡️ Our "Chaire Professeur Junior" position focuses on multi-omics during brain development. This research-heavy position follows a tenure-track scheme, leading to a full professor position.
🗓️ Application deadline: 22/08/2025
➡️ Our "Chaire Professeur Junior" position focuses on multi-omics during brain development. This research-heavy position follows a tenure-track scheme, leading to a full professor position.
🗓️ Application deadline: 22/08/2025
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr
June 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🔬🐁 We have a new position open!
➡️ Our "Chaire Professeur Junior" position focuses on multi-omics during brain development. This research-heavy position follows a tenure-track scheme, leading to a full professor position.
🗓️ Application deadline: 22/08/2025
➡️ Our "Chaire Professeur Junior" position focuses on multi-omics during brain development. This research-heavy position follows a tenure-track scheme, leading to a full professor position.
🗓️ Application deadline: 22/08/2025
C'est notre grande tristesse d'annoncer le décès de Heather McLean, Maitresse de Conférence en neuroscience à @univparissaclay.bsky.social, chercheuse à @neuropsi.bsky.social.
June 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
C'est notre grande tristesse d'annoncer le décès de Heather McLean, Maitresse de Conférence en neuroscience à @univparissaclay.bsky.social, chercheuse à @neuropsi.bsky.social.
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🧵New preprint from @tom-quetu.bsky.social and me, done in Dan Shulz’s lab @touchmovelab.bsky.social at @neuropsi.bsky.social :
We uncover how a tactile code emerges in cortical layer 5a from temporal integration of thalamic input.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Let’s break it down 👇
We uncover how a tactile code emerges in cortical layer 5a from temporal integration of thalamic input.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Let’s break it down 👇
www.biorxiv.org
June 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🧵New preprint from @tom-quetu.bsky.social and me, done in Dan Shulz’s lab @touchmovelab.bsky.social at @neuropsi.bsky.social :
We uncover how a tactile code emerges in cortical layer 5a from temporal integration of thalamic input.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Let’s break it down 👇
We uncover how a tactile code emerges in cortical layer 5a from temporal integration of thalamic input.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Let’s break it down 👇
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🐀💪More coverage of our latest mouse limb embodiment work @plosbiology.org in @newsweek.com !
Scientists trick mice with human experiment with 'unparalleled' value
"This opens up many opportunities."
www.newsweek.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🐀💪More coverage of our latest mouse limb embodiment work @plosbiology.org in @newsweek.com !
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Our work on rubber hand embodiment in mice is out @plosbiology.org! We show that just like in humans, visuo-tactile pairing can lead mice to an embodiment-like behavior with respect to an artificial limb.
Embodiment of an artificial limb in mice
Body ownership disorders can be triggered by disease or body damage in humans. This study shows, using an automated, videography-based procedure, that mice also display quantifiable behavioral markers...
journals.plos.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Our work on rubber hand embodiment in mice is out @plosbiology.org! We show that just like in humans, visuo-tactile pairing can lead mice to an embodiment-like behavior with respect to an artificial limb.
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📢Alain Destexhe and colleagues from @neuropsi.bsky.social introduce a computational framework to study how molecular changes impact brain activity. #compneurosky #Neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A computational approach to evaluate how molecular mechanisms impact large-scale brain activity - Nature Computational Science
A computational framework is introduced to study how molecular changes impact brain activity, using biophysically grounded mean-field models to evaluate how drugs acting on synaptic receptors lead to ...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
📢Alain Destexhe and colleagues from @neuropsi.bsky.social introduce a computational framework to study how molecular changes impact brain activity. #compneurosky #Neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s43...
For the third time, we just hosted the @neuropsi.bsky.social / @cheninstitute.bsky.social annual conference on Brain, Behavior & Beyond! We warmly thank the international speakers for their fascinating talks on social cognition, decision making and communication.
May 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
For the third time, we just hosted the @neuropsi.bsky.social / @cheninstitute.bsky.social annual conference on Brain, Behavior & Beyond! We warmly thank the international speakers for their fascinating talks on social cognition, decision making and communication.
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🔊 🐳 Un réseau mondial de scientifiques mutualise les données sonores sur la #biodiversité.
👩🔬👨🔬 Ce projet implique aujourd'hui 350 collaborateurs travaillant dans 57 pays, dont des scientifiques de l'Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (@neuropsi.bsky.social).
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👩🔬👨🔬 Ce projet implique aujourd'hui 350 collaborateurs travaillant dans 57 pays, dont des scientifiques de l'Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (@neuropsi.bsky.social).
▶ www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...
May 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🔊 🐳 Un réseau mondial de scientifiques mutualise les données sonores sur la #biodiversité.
👩🔬👨🔬 Ce projet implique aujourd'hui 350 collaborateurs travaillant dans 57 pays, dont des scientifiques de l'Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (@neuropsi.bsky.social).
▶ www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...
👩🔬👨🔬 Ce projet implique aujourd'hui 350 collaborateurs travaillant dans 57 pays, dont des scientifiques de l'Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (@neuropsi.bsky.social).
▶ www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...
A tenure track "AI and pathological behavioral trajectories" Professor position is open at NeuroPSI.
Learn more and apply
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May 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A tenure track "AI and pathological behavioral trajectories" Professor position is open at NeuroPSI.
Learn more and apply
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emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...
Learn more and apply
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A Tenure-track Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) is now open at @neuropsi.bsky.social
Focus: Multi-omics cellular atlases of brain development
Application details & deadline coming soon, stay tuned!
@univparissaclay.bsky.social
Focus: Multi-omics cellular atlases of brain development
Application details & deadline coming soon, stay tuned!
@univparissaclay.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A Tenure-track Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) is now open at @neuropsi.bsky.social
Focus: Multi-omics cellular atlases of brain development
Application details & deadline coming soon, stay tuned!
@univparissaclay.bsky.social
Focus: Multi-omics cellular atlases of brain development
Application details & deadline coming soon, stay tuned!
@univparissaclay.bsky.social