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Benita Turner-Bridger

@bturner-bridger.bsky.social
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Postdoc in the Vanderhaeghen lab at VIB KULeuven. Interested in neural development, evolution, and cortical circuits.

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Benita Turner-Bridger @bturner-bridger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Congratulations to Christine, my wonderful former PhD mentor! www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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Two Cambridge researchers awarded the Kavli Prize
Professor Vasily Belokurov and Professor Christine Holt, both from the University of Cambridge, are among ten scientists awarded the Kavli Prize 2026, one of the world’s largest scientific prizes.
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Afnan Azizi @stochastalive.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Excited to share our new #preprint uncovering how early human forebrain is patterned. Compared to mouse, human dorsoventral and anteroposterior telencephalon patterning is strikingly delayed, which is correlated with SHH and FGF signalling differences. Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Franck Polleux @franckp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Delighted to be awarded the 2025 International Prize from the @fondationfyssen.bsky.social jointly with my long time collaborator @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social for our work on the 'Neurobiological foundations of human cognition': www.fondationfyssen.fr/deux-laureat...
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Prix international 2025 - International Prize 2025 - fyssen
Deux lauréats pour le Prix international de la Fondation Fyssen La Fondation Fyssen a le plaisir d’annoncer que le Prix international est exceptionnellement attribué à deux lauréats cette année. Le pr...
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Please check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.
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Marcelo Moglie @mjmoglie.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information
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Functional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus - Nature Communications
Whether and how anatomically distinct regions of the superior colliculus (SC) exhibit specialisation in multisensory temporal integration to facilitate different behavioural responses are not fully un...
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social
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Species-specific Rates of Fatty Acid Metabolism Set the Scale of Temporal Patterning of Corticogenesis through Protein Acetylation Dynamics
Developmental processes display temporal differences across species, leading to divergence in organ size and composition. In the cerebral cortex, neurons of diverse identities are generated sequential...
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Benita Turner-Bridger @bturner-bridger.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
How are cross-modal projections patterned across the cortex? So excited to share my postdoc work at the Crick - it was a wonderful collaboration with co-first author @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social in the labs of @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social & @petrznam.bsky.social
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Marcelo Moglie @mjmoglie.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We developed a compact and open-source, low-cost photodetector system for neuroscience experiments doi.org/10.1016/j.oh... @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social
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Benita Turner-Bridger @bturner-bridger.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Very excited to see the amazing work by Alex and @antblot.bsky.social is out- they developed a barcoded rabies tracing technique for looking at single neuron inputs of hundreds of neurons in parallel. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits
Sequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than...
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Yuxin Zhang @yuxinzhang.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My PhD project is out as a preprint! We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🙌 @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social, @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
With beautiful illustration of calcium imaging of human cortical neurons in visual cortex of awake transplanted mice by @benvermaercke.bsky.social @boninlab.bsky.social
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