@lisafenk

Neuroscientist | Lise Meitner Research Group Leader @MPIforBI

 Munich, Germany
Joined January 2017
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Paper out!!! #Drosophila has muscles that attach to their retinas, which it uses to move its photoreceptor sheet in ways that resemble vertebrate eye movements @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Aggressive fruit flies? Find out more about it in our next "Emerging Scientist Talk" on neural circuits underlying aggression in Drosophila by Katie Schretter @ceschretter, postdoc @HHMIJanelia. Tomorrow, October 21, at 11am in NQ 105 in Martinsried! Art by  @mulesome
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📢Attention Postdocs: Get the chance to present & discuss your research at our Institute! We invite postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply until October 31: bi.mpg.de/ess Art by @mulesome
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🚨🎓 New application round: Join us in researching the multiple facets of biological intelligence and become a PhD student at our fully funded graduate school IMPRS-BI in the Munich area! 🔔 Application period: October 1 to November 10 🌐 Apply here: imprs-bi.mpg.de/
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📝 Are you passionate about making scientific research accessible and exciting for everyone? We are looking for a talented Science Writer to transform scientific publications into clear, engaging, and relatable content for a non-expert audience. If you're a native English speaker or equivalent, have strong writing skills and a passion for making science accessible, we'd love to hear from you! 📬 🔗Apply now and help us bring science to everyone! bi.mpg.de/2702037/job_full_o… #JobOpening #SciComm #FreelanceWriter #WritingCommunity #JobSearch
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Fascinated by the idea of decoding memories from connectomes? Interested in working on a cutting-edge connectomics pipeline? Excited about high-throughput data acquisition or machine learning? We're hiring postdocs, PhD students, and technicians! Reach out :)
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Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-planck-res…

Max Planck Research Groups - Applications have closed

The central announcement 2024 for Max Planck Research Group Leader positions has closed.

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Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our @Nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict. We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Mating proximity blinds threat perception

Nature - A state-dependent dopamine filter system in the male Drosophila brain balances threat perception against the drive to mate.

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Very much looking forward to this one!
MPI for Biological Intelligence@MPIforBI19 Aug 2024
We are happy to invite you to the symposium Early Steps in Fly Vision at our Institute! With distinguished speakers and a program packed with inspiring science, we hope to see many Drosophila enthusiasts & vision researchers! The symposium is free for everyone, no registration required. More information: bi.mpg.de/flyvisionsymposium
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Big love to a big team. Enjoy X biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system

Vision provides animals with detailed information about their surroundings, conveying diverse features such as color, form, and movement across the visual scene. Computing these parallel spatial...

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Hiro Namiki@UTRCAST21 Mar 2024
Motor neurons generate pose-targeted movements via proprioceptive sculpting nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Motor neurons generate pose-targeted movements via proprioceptive sculpting

Nature - Single motor neurons in Drosophila are stimulated to show that they direct head movements towards specific postures rather than generating fixed movement vectors, suggesting that the brain...

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🚨 Open postdoctoral position in our lab @MPI_CE! Clonal ants, social glands, behaviour and chemistry. More details here: bit.ly/3IBA6OO and on ulrichlab.com. Please RT!
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Greg Jefferis@gsxej14 Mar 2024
Do you love big data and the brain? We have #ScienceJobs for you! In Drosophila there are >11,000 cell types that define the circuit structure of the connectome – but we don't know their molecular identity. Integrating connectomes and transcriptomes would be revolutionary. RT 1/3
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Apply now for one of our Lise Meitner Research Groups 2024! Your applications for this #tenuretrack positions at #MaxPlanckInstitutes will be accepted until April 10th 2024. -> mpg.de/11946549/lise-meitner… #LiseMeitnerGroups #CareerinScience #WomeninScience
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It was a loonnnnnng time coming but our paper on path dependent evolution of visual systems is out in Science! @RebeccaMVarney @joie_cannon @Morris_Glr Dan Speiser Doug Eernisse. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… Also, nice Perspective piece by @lauren_hsr ! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

A morphological basis for path-dependent evolution of visual systems

Multiple convergent origins of visual systems show that macroevolution of complex traits can be rapid and contingent upon preexisting traits.

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You want to connect with other neuroscience enthusiasts around Munich? Register now for the 2nd Munich Brain Day at our institute in Martinsried! With exciting talks, poster and data blitz sessions, April 30th will be lit! Register for free: munichbrainday.com/registrat… #MBD24 @munich_brainday @TU_Muenchen @LMU_Muenchen @mpi_psychiatry
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🔬Ever wanted to spy on your model system? 🕵️‍♂️ Now you can! With bio-orthogonal chemical labeling, we've unlocked the ability to capture transient cellular events. 🌟 Dive in our study in @ScienceMagazine: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… A 🧵 1/15

Recording physiological history of cells with chemical labeling

Modified proteins allow recording of a cell’s regulatory activity at a specific period of time for later analysis.

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Mark your calendars! The @MpiBrain is continuing its series of virtual seminars by excellent postdoctoral researchers in #Neuroscience, kicking off on February 20th with @SamuelSy20. Join us on Zoom! 👉brain.mpg.de/postdoc-seminar… @MPGpostdocnet @maxplanckphdnet
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New cost:benefit approach shows photoreceptor costs shape entire eye, including optics. Investments in photoreceptors compete with investments in optics to determine eye design biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Made possible by brilliant co-author, Fran Heras

Investments in photoreceptors compete with investments in optics to determine eye design

Because an animal invests in an eye’s optics and photoreceptor array to meet behavioural needs at minimum cost, optics and photoreceptors compete for resources to maximise eye performance. This...

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Do you know the Munich Neuroscience Lecture Series? With invited experts from diverse fields of neuroscience, the joint event in Martinsried aims to connect the neuroscience community. Check out the 2024 program! @mpi_psychiatry @BernsteinNeuro @LMU_Muenchen @LMU_BMC
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Apply for your PhD at IMPRS-BI! From behavioral ecology to neuroscience – become a student in our graduate school in Munich, Germany and join the exciting research of biological intelligence. Application period: October 1st to November 15th. Find out more: imprs-bi.mpg.de/
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