The much awaited connectome of the male central nervous system of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster:

"Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system", Berg et al. 2025 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.680999v1

"contains 166,696 neurons spanning the brain and ventral nerve cord, fully proofread and comprehensively annotated including fruitless and doublesex expression and 11,691 cell types."

A collaboration between #HHMIJanelia, #MRCLMB and many others.

#neuroscience #connectomics #Drosophila

Our lab member Samia Mohinta @Mohinta2892 is featured in this outreach video prepared by the Accelerate Program for Scientific Discovery, explaining in lay terms how we map neural circuits in the fruit fly brain using machine learning approaches, AKA computer vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68fQ7ZGTxAQ

The eFIB-SEM instrument is featured, setup in the lab, as well as various views of the #MRCLMB.

#neuroscience #connectomics #ComputerVision

Rising Talent Fellowship for postdocs of black heritage backgrounds:

"The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is proud to launch the next application round of its three-year fully funded fellowship for scientists from Black heritage backgrounds."

https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/recruitment/rising-talent-fellowship/

#PhDJobs #postdoc #MRCLMB

Joergen Kornfeld just opened his lab at the #MRCLMB – he is now our colleague!

His lab is recruiting students, postdocs, and staff scientists. Reach out to Joergen directly.

https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/joergen-kornfeld/

#neuroscience #PhDJobs #connectomics

"The brain: what for?" – my seminar for "everyone else" at the #MRCLMB. Featuring brainless maggots and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZwH5MYkFU

#neuroscience #ScienceForEverybody

Talks in Cambridge, UK, are often advertised at https://talks.cam.ac.uk and are open to the public. Quite a few are both in person and over zoom. From my circles:

The MRC LMB seminar series: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/7725

Adrian seminars in neuroscience:
http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/6140

Foster talks: (neuroscience, development, immunology, cancer, physiology)
http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/6283

#MRCLMB #Cambridge #UK #neuroscience #ScienceSeminars

Wolfgang Baumeister of #CryoEM fame delivered the John Kendrew Lecture 2023 at the #MRCLMB this past October. The recording of his talk is now online:

"Cryo-electron tomography or the power of seeing the whole picture"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vrKLnLXebY

With an introduction from @cjrlab

Group Leader position at the #MRCLMB in #connectomics: join us!

https://mrc.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/appcentre-1/candidate/postings/2485

Apply by November 16th, 2023.

Areas of particular interest include developing and applying high-density image acquisition methods (electron, X-ray, light) to determine the structure, connectivity and function of intact nervous systems at synaptic resolution; bringing brain-scale connectomics to additional species (including vertebrates); experimental approaches that leverage connectomes to understand brain function; and computational analyses essential for research across these areas.

#neuroscience #FediHire #jobs #ScienceJobs