Tom Hindmarsh Sten
Circuit architectures, dynamics, and the evolution of behavior. Jane Coffin Childs-HHMI Fellow in the Luo lab at Stanford University | Previously Ruta lab at Rockefeller
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenNew paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenWendy Valencia-Montoya and team uncover thermal infrared as one of the most ancient pollination signals uniting plants and animals. From the field to single proteins. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenHave you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh Sten🎉 Cheng Lyu is the winner of the 2025 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his work in understanding how neural circuits assemble with such remarkable precision during development. Learn more: scim.ag/4onaxEE
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenExcited to share our new #biorxivpreprint We discovered that the fruit fly #drosophila erecta requires food odor to mate and arousal is further enhanced by social group motion. Cross-species analysis of brain activity reveals a novel gate evolved from within a conserved circuit shorturl.at/gGYm7
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenExciting new Ruta lab preprint by @annaryba.bsky.social et al. on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation: Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenMy latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenMaps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenMany animals use "adaptive control" to pursue moving objects, relying on flexible feedback loops to adjust their movement gain over time. But how do neural circuits actually implement this? Here, we show how adaptive control in Drosophila pursuit involves two specialized parallel feedback loops.
- Excited see the final portion of my PhD work with Vanessa Ruta out today in @cellpress.bsky.social, in the midst of everything. In time for valentines day, @rufeili.bsky.social and I describe how competition between males sculpt mating decisions in 🪰🫶. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenExcited to have this paper out (rdcu.be/d0T3Y)! In it, we focused on how flies know what to attend to in a complex environment (like below)? We uncovered neuronal pathways through which social states (like aggression 🥊) modulate visual processing in #Drosophila. #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧪 1/
- Reposted by Tom Hindmarsh StenIn collaboration with Reuben Saunders, @jswlab.bsky.social, and Xiaowei Zhuang, we are very excited to release Perturb-Multi: a platform for pooled multimodal genetic screens in intact mammalian tissue. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
