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Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods #Cnidaria and #Drosophila- please RT www.sprecherlab.com

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Recently completed your #PhD using #Drosophila in a European lab? Apply for the European Drosophila Society best thesis prize! 🏆🪰 Deadline: 28 Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025.bsky.social! Info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

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Katrin Vogt @katrinvogt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Creamy potato chips and slimy apples - at least for humans, that doesn't seem tasty. Also the fruit fly larva is picky and prefers a certain food hardness: enjoy reading more about that in the primer I wrote for the recent paper from the @simon-sprecher.bsky.social lab.

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is a fascinating paper that handled at @plosbiology.org (with thanks to Matthieu Louis as guest ed). The quotation that springs to mind is "Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?" - @simon-sprecher.bsky.social and colleagues titrate agarose to find out...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 30/01/2025

Sensing food is a complex multisensory experience. A study of food hardness preference in #FruitFly larvae by @simon-sprecher.bsky.social &co reveals that gustatory organ sensory neurons can perceive cues of both chemical & mechanical stimulation 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3CEv5FJ

Top left: Top—cartoon of larval food environment, showing a harder (fresh) fruit and a softer (ripe) fruit. Bottom—larval ingestion can be visualised by blue-dyed agarose present and visible in the digestive system. Top right: Experimental paradigm involving a range of decaying fruit for mechanical analysis. Bottom: Immunofluorescence stainings showing the expression of the transgenic 3xP3-RFP and generated pb/peb-split-GAL4 driving a UAS-myrGFP reporter in the taste organs, but not the DOG (left). With expression in the embryonic phase (right) mirroring that of the larva.

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Silke Sachse @silkesachse.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dear colleagues fascinated by olfaction and taste! 👃🏾👅 We’ll organize the next ESITO (Symposium of Insect Taste and Olfaction) from September 19-24 2025 in Sardinia at the beautiful Hotel Cormoran again. We are currently updating the website and will start the registration soon! Please stay tuned!

Hotel Cormoran in Villasimius, Sardinia.

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We are excited to announce the opening of registrations for the upcoming #EDRC2025 conference (25th-28th September 2025) in Alicante to showcase the latest advances in #Drosophila biology and technology edrc2025alicante.com

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Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

To understand how brains do their amazing job, we ultimately need to know how they are wired up. This remains impossible in "large" brains, however FlyWire allows everyone to browse the fruit fly the connectome! Here my take on what makes this so impacting- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Disentangling how the brain is wired

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The European Drosophila Society is delighted to join Bluesky! Follow us for the latest European fly news. #EDRC2025 #Drosophila #Drosofeed

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Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Very cool work: interfere between classic and operant conditioning!

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Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

That’s it! We’re obsolete …. 😉

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Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sunrise at the Lake of Gruyère; winter has arrived in Fribourg

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Simon Sprecher @simon-sprecher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Some news about one of my favorite critters: Xenoturbella! A most complete version of its genome provides insight into a surprisingly „complex“ gene repertoire and molecular features- and raises questions on its phylogenetic position- Congrats to an exciting paper! elifesciences.org/digests/9494...