Reposted by Juan AngueyraScott Juntti @scottjuntti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When a fish sees the world move, it immediately swims with it. This is the optomotor response: a visual reflex found across animals that helps us maintain our position and orientation as our surroundings appear to drift. 🐟👀 14817
Reposted by Juan AngueyraNicole CL Noel @nclnoel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My work on the turquoise killifish photoreceptor mosaic was published last week - check it out if you’re interested in photoreceptors, cell organization, and pretty pictures! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comOrdered Chaos: Photoreceptor Mosaics in the Larval and Adult Turquoise Killifish (<i>Nothobranchius furzeri</i>)The annual turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) cone photoreceptor mosaic is an ordered lattice but lacks regularity of cone subtypes in adulthood. The cone mosaic differs between life stages... 24519
Reposted by Juan AngueyraMeg Younger @megyounger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Excited to share this work from @darbly.bsky.social's lab and my lab with @davidhildebrand.bsky.social @briandepasquale.bsky.social and many others! It turns out that the sensory neurons that detect CO2 in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have lots of recurrent connections! 🦟👃🌟 03710
Reposted by Juan AngueyraLevi Todd @levi-todd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026First paper entirely from our lab is out in the wild! We tested if reprogramming still works in the aged CNS and found the aged retina blocks neurogenesis both intrinsically in Müller glia and through exacerbated inflammation. Then point at some ways to overcome this. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgAging limits neuronal regeneration from glia in the mouse retina | PNASReprogramming resident glia into neurons holds great therapeutic promise for neurodegenerative diseases across the central nervous system, yet thes... 13010
Reposted by Juan AngueyraBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It is official: The @moraneyecenter.bsky.social has named @blockintheback.bsky.social as the Vice Chair for Vision Research and Research Director. I could not be more happy for my former institution as they are in the best hands with Kristen. healthcare.utah.edu/moran/news/2...healthcare.utah.eduMoran Eye Center Names Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision ResearchThe John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah has named Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research. In this leadership role, she will help guide the strategic direction of the Moran... 119815
Reposted by Juan AngueyraMatyas Bubna-Litic @matyasbl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Another fishy #FluorescenceFriday. Even a simple DAPI (blue-yellow) and actin (red) staining can decorate the zebrafish one-day-old embryo spectacularly! 🐟 1429
Reposted by Juan Angueyradrmicrosynapse.bsky.social @drmicrosynapse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026So excited to share this work with the world! 🧠 2113
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Preprint for the first manuscript of the Angueyra Lab is out! We delve deep into cell-fate decisions during photoreceptor development and discover that the 𝘵𝘣𝘹2 paralogues play multiple roles to control the fate of the five photoreceptor subtypes in zebrafish. 22411
Reposted by Juan AngueyraMiranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Really lucky to have this group of new PIs to traverse academia together. Continuing the legacy of the tight knit, collaborative, and kind retina neurobiology community. #RetNeuroSRC @annaintegrated.bsky.social @juanonyme.bsky.social 0155
Reposted by Juan AngueyraZebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 25/04/2026As we near the end of #EarthWeek, a reminder that #zebrafish do not need sterile dishes! Save money and reduce plastic consumption by sanitizing used dishes with hot water or dilute bleach 🧫💦 For example, you could follow this protocol from the Fish Floor at UCL: www.protocols.io/view/washing... 🐟 🧪 25611
Reposted by Juan AngueyraNamnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026In collaboration with the Llobet lab in Barcelona and the NXR, we characterized a Xenopus model of Danon disease, a rare lysosomal disorder. Extra cool that the functional characterization was done during the Neurobiology course at @mblscience.bsky.social last summer!biorxiv.org 053
Reposted by Juan AngueyraPhil Ruzycki @phruzycki.bsky.social · 09/04/2026New paper out 🚨! Excited to share this collab between my lab and @kerschensteiner.bsky.social's group, expertly led by Ning Shen. We used a genome-wide in vivo CRISPR screen to uncover novel neuroprotective strategies in the P23H mouse retina, with validation in a new human retina culture model. 0196
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 03/04/2026One of our dissection scopes (rescued from another lab) has a knob that's very sticky. Asked Zeiss about disassembly instructions to clean it out and they pointed out that this scope dates to before the fall of the Berlin wall (and no documentation available). So, still working at ~40 years! 190
Reposted by Juan AngueyraBenjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 59025
Reposted by Juan AngueyraRyan MacDonald @macdonaldlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Excited to share our new manuscript from the Yoshimatsu and MacDonald labs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We found that my favourite glial cells can regulate local retinoic acid signalling to specialise cone photoreceptors for high acuity visual function. 13611
Reposted by Juan AngueyraJulia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comPost-Doctoral AssociateJob Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three quantitative biology postdoctoral fellow po... 23443
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 27/12/2025The setup for vegetarian tamales tomorrow: salsa roja, nopales y champiñones con comino. 150
Reposted by Juan AngueyraAlice Accorsi @accorsi-alice.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I am very excited to share the first Accorsi lab publication: a collection of detailed protocols to maintain an apple snail 🐌 colony and generate stable mutant lines. The video is coming soon @ JoVE! We hope this will be a valuable resource for the community. app.jove.com/t/69267/the-...app.jove.comThe Golden Apple Snail Pomacea canaliculata: From Zygotes to Stable Mutant LinesUniversity of California, Davis. This study developed a workflow for the generation and maintenance of stable mutant lines for the freshwater apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata. The protocols include ... 05412
Reposted by Juan AngueyraSam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgSelf-renewal of neuronal mitochondria through asymmetric divisionMitochondrial ATP production is essential for life. Mitochondrial function depends on the spatio-temporal coordination of nuclear and mitochondrial genome expression, yet how this coordination occurs ... 29343
Reposted by Juan AngueyraYamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n 29547230
Reposted by Juan AngueyraBen Sivyer @bensivyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy. 11815
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 02/12/2025you should all check out @john-m-ball.bsky.social latest paper (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...) : in the Zenodo files there is an interactive pdf that let's anyone look at the 3D EM reconstructions.pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 161
Reposted by Juan AngueyraPascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 24/09/2025A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115... 32764295
Reposted by Juan AngueyraPeri Kurshan @pkurshan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Our new tool for automating the quantification of synapses (or any other fluorescent puncta) in C. elegans is published- please try it out!! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...journals.plos.orgWormSNAP: A software for fast, accurate, and unbiased detection of fluorescent puncta in C. elegansAuthor summary Here we describe software designed to increase the ease, speed and reliability of analyzing images of fluorescently tagged proteins in C. elegans, a microscopic worm proven to be a powe... 2194
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 31/10/2025We did fluorescence microscopy : dark contrast, DAPI, YFP, mCherry, tdTomato, miRFP, DIC and bright field 0100
Reposted by Juan AngueyraKevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 31/10/2025@ninaluong.bsky.social is really upping her costume game this year. And she can still work in it! 415720
Reposted by Juan Angueyrajonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025Lots of very serious people are working on how to share big datasets across archives and rigging up all sorts of cloud proxy systems and bridges and whatnot and I am here to tell you that torrents with multiple webseeds have already solved that problem 027
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 17/08/2025@fim.bsky.social: recommendation on mail-in service for developing film rolls? Found my dad’s old camera and took it for a spin. 010
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Could @marimo.io and @processing.org work together? Always wanted to dynamically alter stuff on the processing canvas and I love the UI and widgets of marimo. Tutorial possible? 010
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Some zebrafish line eye dancing at @mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuro course. Teaching OKR how John Dowling and Jim Fadool taught me during the zebrafish course. 071
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Should have taken more pictures. Blame it on the lack of sleep. But here is @gregschwartznu.bsky.social giving a lecture on retinal ganglion cells after @richkramerlab.bsky.social talked about the rod pathway. @mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuro course. 040
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 03/08/2025And today: Dave Zenisek and more ribbons! @mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuro course 082
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 03/08/2025John Dowling showing students (and faculty) some ribbon synapses. 2201
Reposted by Juan AngueyraWatanabe Lab @JHU @watanabelab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Super excited to share that our new study is published @natneuro.nature.com today!! Here we show that intersectin and endophilin form condensates between the active zone and the reserve pool and maintain synaptic vesicles near the active zone for rapid replenishment. rdcu.be/evi5y 5274
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Working on lecture for the @mblscience.bsky.social neuro course at the library. Front view vs. back view? 040
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 17/06/2025On our way to @mblscience.bsky.social Neurobiology course! 050
Reposted by Juan AngueyraJeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4) 48141
Reposted by Juan AngueyraBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 06/06/2025It’s @juanonyme.bsky.social yo! 092
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Here world! Enjoy some fluffiness this Friday! Sometimes updated here: www.instagram.com/bowie.brite/ 020
Reposted by Juan AngueyraJeff Mumm @jsmumm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Dr. Kevin Emmerich, my former graduate student, will be presenting a summary of his thesis work as a finalist for the 2024 Outstanding Paper Prize from Development. Webinar is next Wednesday, May 28th: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...journals.biologists.comDevelopment's 2024 outstanding paper prizeWe introduced our Outstanding Paper Prize in 2022 (Briscoe et al., 2023). Each year since then, reviewing the papers shortlisted by our editors, and selecting the finalists and overall winner has beco... 043
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Played find @john-m-ball.bsky.social amongst the dark outfits tonight 120
Juan Angueyra @juanonyme.bsky.social · 17/05/2025First undergrad graduated from our lab!!! @umdscience.bsky.social 1102
Reposted by Juan AngueyraAmerican Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 15/05/2025From MBoC Dr. Robert Krauss, Professor of Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, wants to bring clarity to a classic biology term: “master regulator.” What should it really mean? ➡️ www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #ASCB #CellBiology 1165
Reposted by Juan AngueyraMeg Winter @spooniessquad.bsky.social · 12/05/2025#Resistance via #Stickers! I am still mailing 1oz envelopes of Resistance Stickers to anyone in the US who will commit to posting them up around town. Fill out this address form and they'll be in the mail this week! forms.gle/kw7nV45sLH91... Please share. #disability #lgbt #politics #believewomen 253
Reposted by Juan AngueyraAnna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025In this strange times, attending #ARVO2025 has been a breath of fresh air. Inspired by the work, energized by the community and just so so grateful for the chance to spend time with friends and colleagues ❤ 23210
Reposted by Juan AngueyraElisa Nerli @nerlielisa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025How can organs regenerate fast? Bioelectricity helps -- by coupling sub-second electrical injury signals to regenerative proliferation. First preprint from my potsdoc :D with @liujinghui.bsky.social @ritamateus.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and collaborators @mpipks.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social 314337