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Roshni Pillai
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PhD at Schnaitmann lab, Mainz. Understanding the neural circuits for color vision in flies
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neurofishh.bsky.social
Now out in Cell! Congratulations to all involved, especially
@chiarafornetto.bsky.social

For a breakdown, see the bluetorial from when we posted the preprint: bsky.app/profile/neur...

Funding: @erc.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ukri.org @leverhulme.ac.uk @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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oliviermarre.bsky.social
Happy to share my first work with a connection to myopia, a collaboration with EssilorLuxottica
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nonlinear spatial integration allows the retina to detect the sign of defocus in natural scenes
The retina can easily detect whether the eye is too small or too big thanks to the imperfections of the eye optics.
www.science.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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scottishwaddell.bsky.social
@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila
Consolidation is a time when labile memories transition to a stable form. Malaise learning in Drosophila reveals consolidation to also permit memory updating. Flies taught to associate one of two odor...
www.biorxiv.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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thebuddhabird93.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday
#Seahorse retina stained with #GNB3 (green) + #DAPI (cyan). GNB3 labels cone photoreceptors + ON #bipolarcells, tracing pathways from outer to inner retina. Amazing to see conserved visual #circuits in this non-traditional model
September 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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vyshakhrp.bsky.social
It was a great pleasure to give my first talk from my PhD at an International talk conference last week!

#AdvMicro2025 in Warsaw, Poland
April 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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multipleye-lab.bsky.social
📢New paper in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B!📢

We tracked #eye #development in seven spider species with wildly different visual systems to try and identify the mechanisms underlying their diversity 👀👀👀👀
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(Funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social)
Development and patterning of a highly versatile visual system in spiders | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Visual systems provide a key interface between organisms and their surroundings, and have evolved in many forms to perform diverse functions across the animal kingdom. Spiders exhibit a range of visual abilities and ecologies, the diversity of which is ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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elife.bsky.social
The activity of insulin-producing cells depends on the nutritional state in Drosophila.
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/98514?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
pink and green immunolabeling of drosophila brain
January 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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nclnoel.bsky.social
Zebrafish retina with fluorescently labelled UV cones (magenta) wearing UV opsin antibody hats (cyan) and rods labelled with @jfadlab.bsky.social's wonderful 4c12 antibody (yellow). #FluorescenceFriday
Section of zebrafish retina, with whole UV cones labelled in magenta, UV cone outer segments in cyan, and rod cell bodies and outer segments in yellow.
December 20, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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loicaroyer.bsky.social
The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.

www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
December 11, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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neurofishh.bsky.social
Early vision Neuroscience community, Vol 1

We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long

Addition requests, please see link in the below thread

go.bsky.app/BotZr1g
November 29, 2024 at 8:16 AM