Carolina Rezaval
Professor of Neurogenetics, Birmingham University, UK.
Investigating how the brain solves conflicts.
@fkne-scholars.bsky.social
https://www.rezavallab.org
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- Don’t miss the 2027 Gordon Research Conference on the Modulation of Neural Circuits and Behavior, in beautiful Barcelona! www.grc.org/modulation-o...
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalA voltage-dependent switch underlies efficient yet specific learning and memory #Drosophila
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalNew #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!
- New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods. Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalSend us nominations for the FKNE Mentoring Prize 2026!The award will be presented at FENS Forum 2026 in Barcelona to a scientist who has demontrated leadership in fostering the careers of neuroscientists. Deadline: 15 February 2026 2cm.es/1gh-m
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalThe first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalThere is still time to apply! See linked document for details. Our new 2p microscope got freshly installed and tested this week and is now waiting for you :)
- 📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc
- Reposted by Carolina Rezaval🧨 Check out this peeps🧨 I am very happy with the outcome of this thought baby! @neurogut.bsky.social @michaelrera.bsky.social and Mael Lemoine (yes, a philosopher) twisted our brains over preparing this conceptual review! We give you the "Enterarchon" Enjoy it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalAhrentlov, N., Kubrak, O., Lassen, M., ...., Nagy, S., Imig, C., Richter, E. A., Texada, M. J., Rewitz, K. (2025). Protein-responsive gut hormone tachykinin directs food choice and impacts lifespan. Nat Metab, 7(6):1223-1245 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalWe're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalWhy do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill? Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes. Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalThe second paper from the lab is now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We discovered that cannibalistic behavior in fly larvae is social-context dependent. Larval groups avoid dead conspecifics; individuals show high attraction. They only do it when no one is watching 😉
- Elegant, beautiful work from Anissa Kempf’s lab. Congrats!
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalHow does the brain control locomotion? In our new preprint, we uncover a brain circuit in Drosophila that controls forward walking independently of turning. This dedicated locomotor circuit enables flexible motor control and might reflect a shared principle across species. doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalStep into a Europe-wide community of neuroscience leaders. Junior & mid-career group leaders: apply by 30 Jan to become a FENS-Kavli Network Scholar and connect, collaborate, and contribute to shaping neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalVaxenburg, R., Siwanowicz, I., Merel, J., ...., Reiser, M. B., Botvinick, M. M., Branson, K. M., Tassa, Y., Turaga, S. C. (2025). Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion. Nature, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalRegistration will open soon for the next JEDI meeting: June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal! Join us and our keynote speaker Eugenia Chiappe. Her #neuroscience lab studies how #Drosophila estimates its own movement and integrates sensory inputs to control locomotion. chiappelab.org
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalJoin us at #DrosoSpain2026 for some great #Drosophila science! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social @dgrc.bsky.social
- We are happy to announce that registration for #DrosoSpain2026 is now open! Please register and submit your abstracts until the 20th of February at: drosospain.umh.es Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante soon!
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalOur follow up paper on Sex: Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain: Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
- Reposted by Carolina Rezaval📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅 Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalI am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
- Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalInterested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and @wolfhuette.bsky.social groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalStarting 2026 with a thread a very recent manuscripts at Ryan Lab @tcddublin.bsky.social @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social "Extinction and subsequent updating of innate fear responses to a visual looming stimulus rely on hippocampus-dependent mechanisms" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @PLOSBiology
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalVery happy for this @ejneuroscience.bsky.social editorial on the importance of diverse research animals in neuroscience. We make the case that embracing a plurality of model organisms enriches the field and accelerates both basic and translational research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Carolina Rezavalwww.cell.com/cell/fulltex... We had a lot of fun working on this project (led by Itzel Ishida, not on bluesky). Some interesting highlights from the paper -
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalHow do animals channel sensory information into motor pathways to generate flexible behavioral output? Excited to share a new preprint addressing this question by leveraging the new #maleCNS connectome, behavioral experiments, and in-vivo recordings: doi.org/10.64898/202.... A long🧵...
- Happy to share our Current Opinion on the 'Neural basis of sexually dimorphic decision-making', written with Megan Day. Many thanks to @jefferis.bsky.social for the invite to be part of this special issue on Sexual Dimorphism in the Brain. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Applications are now open for the University of Birmingham’s 125th Anniversary Fellows & Chairs, celebrating 125 years of research excellence with 125 outstanding researchers. Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 @unibirmingham.bsky.social
- Reposted by Carolina Rezaval*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️
- Reposted by Carolina Rezaval📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!
- Reposted by Carolina Rezaval🧠🪰 The adult Drosophila brain connectome now gives us a complete wiring diagram of ~140k neurons. But a wiring diagram alone isn’t understanding. How is this massive network organized? Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalI am proud to present my latest research at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. Register to hear my presentation! #ISSCR2026 invt.io/1bxbzdbzjfq @isscr.org
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- Reposted by Carolina Rezavallab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalI am super thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to build novel interventions for #OCD. The plan is to exploit recent insights from computational neuroscience and closely work together with people with lived experience of OCD to create novel treatments.
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalHow do neural circuits generate the walking rhythm? Using connectome simulations, @sarahpugly.bsky.social found a minimal central pattern generator (CPG) that produces oscillations in leg motor neurons. Same circuit motif for each 🪰 leg. w @bingbrunton.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalI am grateful and excited to receive the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the @humboldt-foundation.de I look forward to inspiring interactions with this amazing scientific community. Thank you to Prof Robin Hiesinger for the nomination and the award committee for selecting me.
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalI’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science. Take part or share: fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv... Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalNew review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalJoin the 4th Asia Pacific #Drosophila Neurobiology Conference in China: lhs.suat-sz.edu.cn/info/1031/13... @fly-eds.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalApply for a PhD in Paris!! A project to come and work with me and my team at the GutSense lab included in the list! 🪰🧠⛽
- 📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back! Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute. 📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026. 👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalWant to carry a PhD in London, in one of the best Universities in the world? We have two calls for PhD students to join our lab at Imperial College. Deadline January 12th. More details for applications in the link below. Feel free to keep in touch!
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalArtificial intelligence promises rapid and polite feedback on papers — but we must first review the reviewer, says Giorgio F. Gilestro go.nature.com/3McjUsw
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- Reposted by Carolina RezavalLooking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social Exeter campus.
- Reposted by Carolina RezavalOur paper on the counterintuitive effects of activating dopamine "reward" neurons is out now! Props to all the trainees, especially Fio Lozada-Perdomo and Yuzhen Chen who did most of the work. Yuzhen is applying for PhD programs now and you'd be lucky to get her! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
