This week we’d like to introduce Meital Oren-Suissa of @weizmann.ac.il, another #Worm27 speaker! She studies how genetic sex shapes neural circuits and behavior. 🧠

Save the date to hear from Oren-Suissa & other fantastic speakers next July in Kobe!

Learn more: buff.ly/nepQrt5

Thrilled to be co-organising the EMBO Workshop Comparative (neuro)science in insects, 13–16 April 2027, Engelberg 🇨🇭 with @megyounger.bsky.social, @nkonst4.bsky.social, and Yun Ding@UPENN
Abstracts due 11 Dec 2026
🔗 meetings.embo.org/event/27-ins...
Register and join us!
#EMBOneuroInsects

The structural logic of insect olfactory receptor assembly and gating https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744483v1

Just returned from NEURO2026, the 49th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society! It was wonderful catching up with so many inspiring researchers.
It was also great to see Suguru before he embarks on his new journey in the States. Wishing him all the best in this exciting new chapter!

New research in #G3journal: A forward genetics screen using EMS mutagenesis identifies new #Celegans mutants with 'Tail End Defects' in the hermaphrodite phenotype, uncovering new genetic determinants of cellular boundaries. 🪱

🔗 buff.ly/KJl4Q6A

In the absence of ambient light–dark cycles, fruit flies use their behavior to create artificial cycles, restoring clock function in the brain and the normal organization of sleep and locomotor activity, according to new research.

Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4flVxo7

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Excited to share our work exploring how fly larvae flexibly adjust their foraging decisions based on resource quality and valence, shaped by prior experience 🪰🥳! Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Huge thanks to the MicroPublication Biology @micropub7n.bsky.social team for making it so easy (and genuinely pleasant) to publish the tools we built in the lab. /fin

Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more.

✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered

🔗 janelia.news/THB26

@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

Our first 2026 paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social!
👏 to @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now Asst Prof, GA State) and PD Priya Dutta.

Here we show how transcriptional and trafficking pathways coordinate thermoreceptor levels to precisely modulate response plasticity
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint!

Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.

How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?

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It was really nice to catch up with Abbie again and meet all the new friends at UCL. Thank you @abigaildwilson.bsky.social

🚨My department is hiring a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad Genetics & Genomics, upper-level Genomics, and an inquiry-based Computational Genomics course where students can do authentic research. 🧬💻

I’m on the search committee. DM me if you’re interested. Please share! 🙏

By studying a species of tardigrade identified last year, researchers in Science have gleaned valuable insights into the animal’s ability to withstand radiation. https://scim.ag/4nKCMwD #ScienceMagArchives