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Tim Lee

@leetim.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist and engineer. Studying spatial navigation in the miniature translucent fish Danionella cerebrum. Postdoc in Briggman Lab at MPINB.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Atlas of adult Danionella fish telencephalon reveals retention of larval characters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Tim Lee @leetim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My institute is hiring a group leader in Neuroethology! Bonn is a wonderful place to do neuroscience. Check it out! jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/4...
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Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Neuroethology (m/f/div)
limited contract
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IMPRS for Brain and Behavior @imprsbb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors! 📅 Deadline: October 15, 2026 🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de #neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD
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Matt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social
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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Whole-body cellular activity imaging in zebrafish, headed by Virginie Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social - new paper is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits - Nature
An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.
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Tim Lee @leetim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Definitely check this out! Emily is an amazing scientist doing cool work with Danionella!
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Matt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our collaborative paper with Palka Puri and Johnatan Aljadeff is now published in @physrevlett.aps.org. We find that Danionella fish move in schools by copying a neighbor's heading direction @danionella.bsky.social aljadeff.ucsd.edu journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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Collective Motion in Danionella Emerges from Discrete Copying Interactions
Understanding how animals move as collectives requires knowledge of movement and interaction rules implemented by individuals within such groups. We report that micro glassfish Danionella cerebrum exh...
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Xinwei Wang @xinwei-wang.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Happy to be part of this primer. This little transparent fish opens up incredible opportunities for neuroscience research.
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Clay Reid @clayreid.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Clay Reid (@rclayreid) on X
We're starting a lab at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to map the human brain at single-axon resolution: Axonal Connectomics. We're looking to hire postdocs, programmers, technicians, anyone who wan...
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Tim Lee @leetim.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Is a transparent fish the future of brain science? This center is betting on it
One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.
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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Tiny, 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...
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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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James Lightfoot @jameslightfoot.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill? Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes. Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
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Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits - Nature
Noradrenergic circuits support and balance aggressive behavioural states in predatory nematodes, distinguish predatory from non-predatory nematode species and are associated with the evolution of comp...
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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
1/6: New publication from the lab: “Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons” by Ryosuke Tanaka (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social) and Ruben is available here: rdcu.be/eX1L4
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Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons
Nature - Using two-photon microscopy with a panoramic virtual reality setup, how head direction cells in larval zebrafish integrate visual landmarks and optic flow to track orientation is revealed.
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Tobias Ackels @tobiasackels.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
PhD position in systems neuroscience! Excited to start a new DFG-funded project together with @obarnstedt.bsky.social to study olfactory–spatial coding in CA1. 🔬 Dual-colour miniscope Ca2+ imaging 🐭 Freely moving behaviour & optogenetics ⏳ Start: April 2026 | Deadline: 31.01.2026 More info below ⬇️
The project studies how the hippocampal CA1 integrates olfactory and spatial information for goal-directed navigation. The position is a 3-year DFG-funded PhD (TV-L E13, 65%) starting April 2026, jointly supervised by Prof. Tobias Ackels at University Hospital Bonn and Dr. Oliver Barnstedt at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen. The project uses dual-colour miniscope calcium imaging, optogenetics, and behavioural experiments in freely moving mice. Application deadline is 31 January 2026, with applications sent by email.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 08/12/2025
Our Method of the Year 2025 is...drumroll please...EM-based connectomics!! Our Editorial introduces our choice and highlights six Comments and other related content in this special issue. Please join us in celebrating EM-based connectomics! 🎉🧠🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Method of the Year 2025: electron microscopy-based connectomics - Nature Methods
A large network of interconnected neurons serves as the basis of brain function and of behavior. Methodological advances have enabled the reconstruction of large-scale and even whole-brain connectomes...
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Aaron Kuan @kuanawanda.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Our new paper showcasing molecular connectomics with pan-expansion microscopy is out in @natbiotech.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... This wonderful collaboration with @bewersdorflab.bsky.social was led by Ons M'Saad (now founder/CEO of Panluminate) and @allisonphysics.bsky.social. (1/5)
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Gilles Vanwalleghem @drgillesv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
PhD position on fear response in zebrafish in a new and exciting lab working with Dr. Emmanuel Marquez Legorreta. He's a great scientist and super nice guy, I highly recommend him www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD position in Neuroscience
Reveal the neuronal populations underlying innate fear responses using whole-brain imaging of neuronal activity and gene expression in larval zebrafish!
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Virginie M. S. Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Thanks Misha for the shout-out! It has been a truly mind-opening journey. WHOLISTIC is one step towards whole-organism neuroscience and a true physiological observatory - with extensions on the way! I am continually amazed by what the data reveals - so much remains to be discovered and mined.
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BonnBrain Conference @bonnbrainconf.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!
Flyer advertising the BonnBrain Conference 2026, "From Genes to Circuits and Behavior".
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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨
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Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It was a good experience to step back and briefly take stock of the amazing progress in connectomics since I started working on this stuff (20 years ago!) thanks as well to @natrevneuro.nature.com for the constructive editorial interactions.
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 01/08/2025
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships:
Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.
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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Happy to share our publication - Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution
Understanding the evolution of the bilaterian brain requires a detailed exploration of the precise nature of cellular and subcellular differences between related species. We undertook an electron micr...
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Meg Younger @megyounger.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New preprint from @darbly.bsky.social‬ @briandepasquale.bsky.social‬ and my labs! If you love (or hate) mosquitoes, have a look: doi.org/10.1101/2025... We used TEM to describe the circuitry used for CO2 detection by mosquitoes. As usual with mosquitoes, nothing is as expected! 🌬️🦟
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Recurrent connectivity supports carbon dioxide sensitivity in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
The mosquito Aedes aegypti′s human host-seeking behavior depends on the integration of multiple sensory cues. One of these cues, carbon dioxide (CO2), gates odorant and heat pathways and activates hos...
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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
@natrevneuro.nature.com just published a beautiful cover for the issue that includes the recent review on analogies in the visual system of vertebrates and invertebrates (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social). Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s415... Science and Art, what could be better?
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Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar @mpinb.mpg.de · 12/06/2025
🚀 New Neurovoyagers episode just dropped! It's been such a great time chatting with ‪@monikakscholz.bsky.social about worms, neural bottlenecks, open science, and the joy of building stuff that works 🧠🔧 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1r2a...
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Brains in Miniature: Evolution, Foraging, and Open Science with Monika Scholz
Neurovoyagers: Exploring the Minds Behind Neuroscience · Episode
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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Are you interested in visual systems? How are they similar or different across species? Read the review by Ryosuke @ryosuketanaka.bsky.social and Ruben published today in @natrevneuro.nature.com. It is available here: rdcu.be/enlpC
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Monika Scholz @monikakscholz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So great to see this in print! Congratulations to Johannes and team!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Algorithmic dissection of optic flow memory in larval zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Tim Lee @leetim.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Come join the Briggman lab in beautiful Bonn to work with a menagerie of animals: axolotls, anableps, danionella, zebrafish, xenopus tropicalus and more! Also, the institute is dog-friendly and sits on a dog park! 🐶
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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
1/3 Starting this summer, and after 11 wonderful years in Munich, the Portugues Lab will be starting a new adventure at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) (nbb.cornell.edu) at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
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Department of Neurobiology and Behavior | Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A modular multi-color fluorescence microscope for simultaneous tracking of cellular activity and behavior www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Fish and chips sheet into the light @daniodanionella.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#Danionella in the creature column www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Danionella fishes - Nature Methods
Miniature, transparent Danionella fishes, which are among the smallest living adult vertebrates, allow investigation of general principles of brain-wide neural circuits and evolutionary and developmen...
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