Reposted by Kit D. LongdenIvy Chan @ivychanchiwai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our paper on odour categorization in the Drosophila mushroom body is now out in Cell Reports! 🎉 We found that αβ and α′β′ Kenyon cells—but not γ KCs—distinguish food-related from non-food odours at the population level. Very happy to see this work published! 🪰🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1234
Reposted by Kit D. LongdenMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 03/09/2026The complete #connectome of the adult Drosophila male CNS has allowed researchers, inc @jefferis.bsky.social’s group, to compare male & female brains at synaptic-resolution for the first time. Read more here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch 1/2 18129
Kit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Mosquito Aedes aegypti brain connectome project is super exciting: jobs available Elizabeth Marin & @jefferis.bsky.social recruiting Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Research Associate Deadline: 3 September 2026 Brilliant colleagues & bosses - highly recommend flyconnecto.me/2026/08/01/t...lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 044
Kit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Very nice work setting out efference copy circuitry in fly visual system from @fleyes.bsky.social lab 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgVectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctionsDistinguishing visual input generated by active eye movements from input due to external events is a fundamental challenge for visual processing. Here, we uncover a remarkably simple solution to this ... 1247
Reposted by Kit D. LongdenAdria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.comcam.ac.ukResearch Associate (Fixed Term)A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro... 23232
Reposted by Kit D. LongdenErika Dona @erikadona.bsky.social · 23/07/2026After about a year from the preprint, our scRNAseq atlas of the developing Drosophila nerve cord has been published in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA global molecular code for birth order and neuronal identity in Drosophila - NatureA high-resolution developmental transcriptional atlas of the Drosophila melanogaster nerve cord identifies a shared transcriptional code that records neuronal birth order and organizes neuronal d... 12910
Kit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Virtual Fly Brain for the win: making LLM analysis of large-scale fly data much better, through model context protocols (MCPs), which act as guardrails and guidance, making the most of curation and annotations, including for connectome and sequencing data. VFB 🙌 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgVFB-MCP: Natural-Language Access to Drosophila Neuroscience Grounded by an Expert-Curated Ontology-Led KnowledgebaseBiological databases store curated knowledge that researchers traditionally access through web interfaces or APIs. To move beyond casual browsing requires domain-specific knowledge and expertise to fr... 020
Reposted by Kit D. LongdenVincent Croset @vincentcroset.bsky.social · 26/06/2026👋 Happy Friday! Here is the first preprint from the lab, starring Sophie Waldron and Yixin (Demi) Liu! We present a single-nucleus atlas of peptidergic neurons from the Drosophila brain, which we use to identify changes in gene expression under protein deprivation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1257
Reposted by Kit D. LongdenCole @ultraspiracle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026My first paper is up on bioRxiv! We asked a simple question: why are fruit flies smaller when they grow up in a crowded vial? #Development #Plasticity #Drosophila 24014
Kit D. Longden @theflyside.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Revised preprint on mitochondria in central brain of Drosophila now online: much new analysis + details of largest resource for analyzing neuronal mitochondria generated so far, with ~6M mitochondria, >20k neurons, >5k cell types. Much thanks to all coauthors, enjoy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgConnectomic Analysis of Mitochondria in the Central Brain of DrosophilaMitochondria are integral to the metabolism and cell biology of a neuron. Electron microscopy images of fly brain volumes, taken for connectomics, can be analyzed for mitochondria as well as the cells... 0308