Mating songs of Galápagos finches from a set of possible futures, played to territorial males, reveal links between adaptation and speciation.
Check out our new study—led by Dr. Jeff Podos @UMassAmherst—in @sciencemagazine! ⬇️
Summary 🧵below!
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Really excited to share the latest preprint from my lab @CSHL. Work done by @IskoEmily, a fantastic graduate student, in collaboration with @TonyZador.
So what is this paper about?
Song "type" learning is happening in the auditory system at very young ages. Before the song sensitive period even opens! Proud of this work led by @katieschro8 .
New from @katieschro8@HealeyLab in @J_Exp_Biol, report that in zebra finches, brain cells in forebrain auditory areas are already selectively tuned to conspecific song before the sensitive period
Nice use of cross fostering w/Bengalese finches
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ALT Box and whisker plots with raw data points on top comparing baseline firing rates in two forebrain areas, Field L and NCM, across three groups, normal, cross fostered, and isolate. Firing rates are lowest in normal group
Out now in @CurrentBiology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Tiny D. cerebrum produce super-loud clicks and now Antonia Groneberg @benjulab & co reveal how the cartilage hammers that hit the swim bladder develop. In addition, even 6-week-old fish click at full speed; they don't need to practice
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ALT A photo of a transparent male Danionella cerebrum showing the swim bladders (silver structures in the middle of the body) that produce the clicks when the hammers impact then and the muscles (yellow), around the top of the front swim bladder, that drive the hammer impacts. Photo credit: Mykola Kadobianskyi.
Super excited to share my postdoc work investigating how mating and parental behaviors evolve using wild species of mice combined with single nucleus RNA-sequencing of the hypothalamus 🐭🧠🧬!
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We are super excited to host the next round of UCSF EPSP talks! Postdocs, come give a talk in the 2023-2024 @UCSFNSGrad Neuroscience Formal Seminar Series. Great opportunity to show off your work and meet the UCSF neuroscience community. Please share with great candidates and RT!
I just learned that Harvey Karten passed away.
As a PhD student writer for @NeuWriteSD, I had the honor of interviewing him in 2015. His candor & passion left a huge impact on me -- even as an emeritus professor, he was still obsessed with brains.
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Super cool working going on in @LOB_SU with @whisperina (in vivo imaging mol bio techniques) to understand parent-offspring interactions! Send your talented undergrads their way.
@LOB_SU is hiring a technician to join me in the adventure of understanding poison frog tadpole brains!! ✨🧠🐸 JOIN US!! Or send to someone who can!! Please and thank you!!🥳
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Our paper, Crows ‘count’ the number of self-generated vocalizations, is out! With this amazing team (@KatharinaBrecht, @lena_veit, A_Nieder), we uncovered that crows are able to control the number of vocalizations produced.
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