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Jason Somers

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Research Scientist at The Francis Crick Institute. Researching dipteran olfaction, behaviour and everything in between.

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Brilliant, thanks for the link.

I’ll keep at it

06.10.2025 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which engine did you use? I’ve tried some renders using cycles but I’m wondering if others might be better.

06.10.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, we are using it at the moment for Drosophilid micro injection and it is verry easy to score

02.10.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this ie1 marker expression or a different promoter?

02.10.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🀞

25.09.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How many more sleeps?

25.09.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci Understanding toxin resistance in insects is key to appreciate niche adaptations and for pest management, but remains challenging due to complex genetics. To investigate how Drosophila sechellia evolv...

New preprint, taking our lab into ecotoxicology, with a nifty combination of experimental evolution and CRISPR screening in cells, to help unravel the still-mysterious resistance of Drosophila sechellia to its favorite fruit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

20.08.2025 07:23 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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An integrated anatomical, functional and evolutionary view of the Drosophila olfactory system | EMBO reports imageimageIdentification of a new antennal Or and an unusual hybrid Or/Ir neuron β€œcomplete” the olfactory map in Drosophila melanogaster. Numerous features of this species’ olfactory system are synthe...

New paper: one-shop stop for the Drosophila olfactory system, a great collaboration with Karen Menuz:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

20.05.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My PhD project is out as a preprint!
We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
πŸ™Œ @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social, @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk

01.05.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist DΓΌrr etΒ al. develop advanced genetic tools in the host specialist D.Β sechellia to study its olfactory system neuroanatomy. They show via single-cell labeling, tracing, and quantitative comparison of o...

Happy to see this out now:
Olfactory projection neuron rewiring in the brain of an ecological specialist: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

In a team effort with @bentonlab.bsky.social 's lab we establish new genetic tools in #drosophila sechellia and compare single central brain neurons.

28.04.2025 07:08 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Are prints available?

15.04.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are looking for a motivated and meticulous laboratory research scientist (LRS) to help with a comprehensive neuronal inactivation screen. This is a great opportunity to build experience in the growing field of experimental connectomics. Apply by 2 May!
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

12.04.2025 14:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Melbourne on top!! Apart from Hobart, but they don’t count

27.03.2025 10:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Real cool (hot?) work!

07.03.2025 09:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.

Good to see this happening:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

13.02.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 222 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 12
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

Members of the U.K. and international scientific community are invited to sign to show their support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

11.02.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 15
HolFast is a new chemically defined (holidic) diet for Drosophila development that performs almost as well as a yeast diet.

HolFast is a new chemically defined (holidic) diet for Drosophila development that performs almost as well as a yeast diet.

Our latest... Congrats to Seb Sorge, Victor Girard & coauthors for devising HolFast, a chemically defined (holidic) diet for #Drosophila development that performs almost as well as a yeast diet. If you study developmental #nutrition or #metabolism please try it out... www.cell.com/developmenta...

04.02.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism Two parasitoid wasp venom proteins induce imaginal disc degradation of its host fly Drosophila larva, ensuring parasitism success.

I am thrilled that our paper, which is packed with our 10 years of data on the venom proteins of the parasitoid wasp Asobara japonica, has just been published!

Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

29.01.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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(Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Prieto Godino Lab Salary for this Role: LRS - From Β£31,675 with benefits subject to skills and experience. SLRS - From Β£39,950 with benefits, subject to skills and experience. Job Title: (Senior) Laboratory Research Sc...

We are hiring a new (Senior) Lab Research scientist to work in our team together with @antoniotorm.bsky.social to understand how virus alter neural circuit function to manipulate behavior. More details and how to apply: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

28.01.2025 12:03 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Machine learning of honey bee olfactory behavior identifies repellent odorants in free flying bees in the field

Preprint of our honey bee paper out in ELIfe elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

24.01.2025 06:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starting 2025 with a new year gift! ✨

Amazing book with 90 authors from 26 countries 🌎🌍🌏

Very honored to have contributed to the chapter β€˜Partnership-based approach to infectious disease research in Papua New Guineaβ€˜ with colleagues in PNG & Australia πŸ‡΅πŸ‡¬ πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

πŸ”— link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

02.01.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Drosophila antenna showing orco +ve
#microscopy
#drosophila

20.12.2024 08:52 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So if I eat more often, will my hair grow back?

17.12.2024 13:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now with sound

16.12.2024 14:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Restless pre-pupae syndrome

16.12.2024 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes please

16.12.2024 07:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging.

www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

11.12.2024 20:32 πŸ‘ 466 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 24
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Mosquitoes - Alex Wild Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...

Mosquitoes: the photo gallery.

I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)

10.12.2024 14:38 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lucilia sp. It is the insect that brought me to macro photography and which makes me feel an incredible awe of nature and evolution. Millions of generations, perfectly adapted with countless hairs, sensors and fascinating eyes. Usually, living with us and known… until you take a closer look.

09.12.2024 20:20 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Anyone found a good way to filter all the AI generated landscape / space nature content in the discovery feed?
For every account I mute two more take its place πŸ™ƒ

25.11.2024 15:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0