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Shai Israel

@shaisrael.bsky.social
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Research associate in the Parnas Lab at Tel Aviv University

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Shai Israel @shaisrael.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It was a true pleasure writing this News & Views piece together with @mosheparnas.bsky.social, published now in @natneuro.nature.com, on such an exciting and insightful paper by the @felsenberg.bsky.social lab!
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Johannes Felsenberg @felsenberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience
Forgotten memories in Drosophila persist as silent memory traces and can be recovered by reminder cues. Manipulating reminders can create false memories, showing that memory reconstruction flexibly in...
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Johannes Felsenberg @felsenberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Very thankful for this thoughtful dispatch by @shaisrael.bsky.social sky.social and Moshe Parnas about our work. Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Shai Israel @shaisrael.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Super excited to share that the “sequel” to my PhD research at the Parnas lab has been published as a featured article in Communications Biology! 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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A new system for studying neuronal remodeling and its relation to behavior in Drosophila - Communications Biology
Authors show that the adult Moonwalker SEZ neuron is a developmentally-conserved larval neuron that drives backward locomotion at both larval and adult stages and undergoes ec...
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