Excited to host with @alison_j_barker the Gordon Research Conference on the Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication in beautiful Maine! Poster and short talk slots available! Still time to apply - deadline May 3, 2026! Please RT. @GordonConf @ArkarupBanerjee @katietschida1

כשהזבוב אוהב ת'זבובית... 🪰🪰 צפו בסרטון התדמית של המעבדה של ד"ר דודי דויטש, הפקולטה למדעי הטבע. גלו איך חברי המעבדה חוקרים את המנגנונים העצביים שמאחורי תקשורת חברתית רב-חושית – מהתנהגות ועד למולקולה. 👨🏾‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬 🔗 לאתר המעבדה: deutschlab.haifa.ac.il/ @Uhaifa @DudiFly

Sex-specific behavioral feedback modulates sensorimotor processing and drives flexible social behavior biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Join us for the final stage of the 2024-2025 Coller-Dolittle Prize competition on May 15th at 14:00 UTC, online. The shortlisted submissions will be presented, and the award recipient announced. Register here: jeremycollerfoundation.org/e…

Excited to share our latest work on songbirds showing dopamine guides learning of natural behavior nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Congrats to @JonathanKasdin Alison Duffy Nathan Nadler @pantamallion @alfairhall @neuro_kim ! @ZuckermanBrain @Columbia @GoogleDeepMind @UW

New preprint from the lab: Like many animals, including us humans, fruit fly males generate multimodal signals during courtship—song and vibrations. Elsa Steinfath and Afshin Khalili found that these signals are produced in distinct behavioral contexts by a shared brain circuit.

Underestimated females: A new study by @LabVallentin reveals the influence of females on song learning in zebra finches. Vocal feedback from females can activate a neural circuit in the brain of young males while they are learning their song, increasing its accuracy. Read more: bi.mpg.de/news/2024-10-valle… Scientific publication: rdcu.be/dXdK1 Art: @mulesome

Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence - bi.mpg.de/news/2024-09-valle…

In our latest preprint, we use connectomics to uncover that the FeCO, the largest somatosensory organ in the fly leg, is not only proprioceptive, but also has a subset of sensory neurons that are dedicated to sensing external substrate vibrations as well: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

🐦🐦🐦Disinhibition enables vocal repertoire expansion after a critical period in birds🐦🐦🐦 @songbirdbrain Ezequiel Mendoza @koparkanya26 @LabVallentin biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

1/ I am excited to introduce my PhD work with @twit_tats2, @greg_stephens, and @shaevitz, on the 3D tracking and analysis of pairwise zebrafish fights! How do zebrafish interact socially to establish dominance? Check out the preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Thread below!

Happy to share new work with @Christa_A_Baker, @MurthyLab, and @jpillowtime on the dynamics of neural memory processes during natural social communication: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Not all lapses are random errors! We show that lapses in decision-making can arise systematically and predictably from trial-history biases. 👀Check out our new paper about this 👀 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Happy to share a recent work from my lab, led by @dawnschen and Minhao Li: The origination of a novel social behavior the function and evolution of female sexual behavior. We had so much fun working on this project with several jaw-dropping moments!

Ancestral neural circuits potentiate the origin of a female sexual behavior biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

🚨New from @avakiai @Talking_Bat @postpop01 @davidpoeppel! Automated detection of >2.5 million vocalizations of Carollia perspicillata reveals that these 🦇 seek to avoid acoustic jamming from background noise by adjusting their own vocalization timing. nature.com/articles/s42003-0…

Excited to share the first preprint from my lab. A connectome guided effort spanning modeling, behavior and functional imaging that led to uncovering fundamental circuit mechanisms for implementing halting in flies. doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.25.5…

How do the peripheral and central nervous systems evolve to switch the valence of a sex pheromone, from anti-aphrodisiac to aphrodisiac, in species-specific mate recognition? Check this beautiful work led by Rory Coleman and Vanessa Ruta (honored to make a small contribution)!