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Wataru Yamamoto

@wayamamo.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ualittlerock.bsky.social | Grass Fellow 2026 @grassfoundation.bsky.social | Nervous system evolution

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excited to share my lab’s latest preprint led by postdoc @yukihaba.bsky.social and grad student Ryan Schwark. We surprisingly find that spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts a naked mole-rat’s identity, its colony membership, and even rank within its colony. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jordan Hamm @jordanhamm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Our paper is out now in Neuropsychopharmacology! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mismatch negativity matures in adolescence and without sensitivity to microglial depletion - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Mismatch negativity matures in adolescence and without sensitivity to microglial depletion
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 04/09/2026
Hydra vulgaris is one of few Cnidarians living in freshwater. To avoid hypoosmosis intracellularly, Hydra periodically excretes water. @wayamamo.bsky.social from Rafael Yuste's lab studied the neural control of osmoregulation in Hydra. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Angelo Forli @aforli89.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Back from an unforgettable Whitman Fellowship at @mblscience.bsky.social - with neural recordings from the axolotl! 🧠🦎 We’re taking this forward in my lab, and I’m hiring. Interested? Get in touch! Thanks @thorlabs.bsky.social, Coherent and @open-ephys.org for loaning their equipment. More soon!
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Wataru Yamamoto @wayamamo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our new paper is out in Current Biology! We show that Hydra periodically excrete excess water, and that this behavior is controlled by neural integration in a neuronal ensemble. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Now continuing this work in my new lab at UA Little Rock!
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Jordan Hamm @jordanhamm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sharing our preprint on bioRxiv, showing a lasting effect of serotonergic psychedelics on global brain networks in resting EEG data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A dominant frontoparietal beta oscillatory brain state in the days after psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT
Background. Serotonergic psychedelics show promise for treating psychiatric disorders, with symptom improvements lasting for weeks after a single dose. Clarifying the neural basis of these effects wou...
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Better late than never... an update on the recent work from the lab. First of all, the Foundation: @astridd93.bsky.social phenomenal paper on the evolution of layering in the cerebral cortex 🧵1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Wataru Yamamoto @wayamamo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sharing my work on how a simple nervous system controls behavior at today’s Neuroimaging Seminar at MBL! @mblscience.bsky.social
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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Behavioral biases drift in individuals. • Drift happens on many timescales • Drift rate depends on genetics and neuromodulators • It might be adaptive for rapidly changing environments elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Drift in Individual Behavioral Phenotype as a Strategy for Unpredictable Worlds
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James Lightfoot @jameslightfoot.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator? Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵below!
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Evolution of sensory systems underlies the emergence of predatory feeding behaviors in nematodes | PNAS
Understanding how animal behavior evolves remains a major challenge, with few studies linking genetic changes to differences in neural function and...
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Jordan Hamm @jordanhamm.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Excited to share our preprint! Impressive effort from grad student Anna Rader Groves and co-author @cgalli-io.bsky.social, in collaboration with Melanie Grubisha and Robert Sweet (PITT). @grubisha
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Jordan Hamm @jordanhamm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Excited to share our preprint! We show that primary visual cortex is modulated by global predictability. This effect depended on higher level brain region (area ACa), and better explained classic oddball paradigms better than “local” context effects (i.e., recent stimulus history). 1/3
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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our new study modeling selection for (behavioral) variability has been covered in a lovely @genetics-gsa.bsky.social podcast featuring first author Shraddha Lall and @ecoevogal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
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Family-based selection: an efficient method for increasing phenotypic variability
This article introduces a model comparing various selection regimes for increasing phenotypic variability. Individuals with the same genotype, reared in id
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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 08/09/2025
New review on how changes in cell type composition in and outside the brain contribute to the evolution of behavior. 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lihM,LqAZ...
Changes in cell type composition, including cell expansions, cell losses, and novel cell gains, are associated with the evolution of specific behaviors.
Figure credit: Matteo Farinella.
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Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Wataru Yamamoto @wayamamo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Hydra after feeding
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Wataru Yamamoto @wayamamo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I am looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student who want to study the neuronal mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance. 🐝 More details can be found on our webpage: www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
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Open Positions
If our research profile evoked your interest of working with us on the spatial memory of honeybees, then you are warmly welcommed to contact us.  ​ What we offer ​We offer the infrastructure of...
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Neural Connectome of the Ctenophore Statocyst 🤩. @kei-jokura.bsky.social, @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy team identify a new syncytial nerve net in older animals & differences in innervation patterns. Great collaboration & co-submission to bioRxiv. Exciting times! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Aissam Ikmi @aikmi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student Soham Basu! @embl.org‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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