Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
A dive into the deep history of vertebrate vision, together with @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social
Photo credit : Vasilis Karkalas
The registration for the NeuroDoWo 2026 will open on February 15thπ§
While you wait, you can check out our program on the websiteπ
ππΌLink in bio
We hope to see you soon!
Stay tuned for more detailsπ
Suported by @biologists.bsky.social, @neurowissg.bsky.social and @dzg-neurobiology.bsky.social
1/10 New preprint on bioRxiv
Nanodiamonds for spatial resolution benchmarking in two-photon microscopy
We introduce nanodiamond-based phantoms as a robust, reusable alternative to beadβagarose samples for PSF calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
up to 5 fully funded PhD positions in Neurobiology at SISSA! Application through the portal until March 25th, start in November. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... Join 1 of our 6 labs studying sensory and motor systems of the peripheral and central nervous system and/or get involved in tool development.
A Go Fund Me link has been shared to support Adam Kampff's educational organization @noblackboxes.bsky.social - for those who wish to support you can find a link here gofund.me/245cb96ff
I only met Adam for a couple days during a summer school, but that was enough to be truly inspired by him. You can, and should, understand things at their core. I hope his legacy will live on.
Last night Adam Kampff, the glue, the light, the catalyst, the builder, the smile, left us. He and his work transformed the lives of many labs, scientists, students. He inspired and was generous to his last transformation, working tirelessly to set up a foundation to continue the work.Thank you!
Anyone off to #sfn2025?
I'll be helping out the folks of the Bonsai Foundation in sharing info about their amazing #OpenScience #opensoftware #openhardware tools for research!
Come find us on Booth 3726, in Hall B2, in the Institute & Non-Profit Area #cienciabr @open-neuroscience.com
How did I not know about this super-useful site for customized 3D-printable thread adapters? HT to @leon-kremers.bsky.social : brainright.com/adapt-o-matic/
Excited to share our paper now published in Cell!
'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background'
Huge thanks to @neurofishh.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social
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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Friday, 31st of October we are excited to host Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
4 pm UK
9 am US west coast
Tune in here:
youtube.com/live/gLwBRWe...
snowy mountains
Join the symposium for senior trainees & junior group leaders (organised by SWC's Sara Mederos and @sandra-neuro.bsky.social) at the International Winter Neuroscience Conference, Austria, April 2026.
Abstract submission to present your work at the Early Career Symposium closes on 15 Oct
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
Had a great time at the #ERM in PΓ©cs. Got to meet lots of great people from the retina field, and even won the audience vote for best poster!
Video is calcium activity in one hemisphere of the optic tectum of a 2-week old tadpole, in response to the stimuli shown in the inset. Both played at 5x speed.
Excited for the European Retina Meeting next week, and to show some of my work on how πΈ see the world as peacefully filter feeding tadpoles or predatory frogs. Here's a sneak peek at the imaging part, for more info talk to me or see my poster on the baden lab website: badenlab.org/posters/
ποΈThe retina β strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians!
So how did it evolve?
With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may ππππππ‘π π‘βπ ππ¦π ππ‘π πππ.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Today, 12th September 5pm GMT+1 (9am US west coast) weβre excited to host Eugenia Chiappe! Tune in at m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtT...
This Friday we are excited to host Julie Semmelhack on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
Tune in here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqh...
We're aware that these times are difficult to make in some time zones, but we are also limited by speaker time zones/talks bein in-person. Will adjust for the next set of talks wherever possible.
Next Wednesday, 15:00 GMT+1 (3pm UK, 4pm Europe) we have another Sussex Vision talk! Tune in at www.youtube.com/@badenlab615... for Michael Herzog (hosted by Jenny M Bosten). See you there!
This Thursday, 13:00 GMT+1 (1pm UK, 2pm Europe) we have the Sussex Vision series coming back. Tune in at m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... to hear Fabio Cortesi talk about vision in coral reef fishes. See you there!
The Sussex Vision Talk series is back! Join us to hear about all things vision, from retina to brain, from invertebrates to human.
www.youtube.com/@badenlab615...
Talks will be live-streamed (and stored) on YouTube, hope to see many of you there. Details on each talk coming soon.
Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...
New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with @farrowlab.bsky.social, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our proposal for a βuniversalβ nomenclature for rod and cone types based on their evolutionary lineages that will equally apply to all vertebrate species is now out! Have a look and please consider adopting the system :)
Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model?
See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10
We had an excellent week at the EMBO Subcortical Circuits Meeting in Assisi. First posters with lab-own data only, presented by the amazing Po-yu Liao and Lucia Zanetti! Great organising by @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Hiroki Asari, Tomomi Shimogori and Judith Hirsch
Seeking input: A standardized nomenclature
for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina
A number of us have been working on a proposal to bring various disconnected naming systems for the vertebrate rods and cones across species into alignment. The basic proposal looks like this:
