Vanessa Stempel
Group Leader at MPI Brain Research, studying instinctive behaviours. Interested in the brainstem, cortex not so much. she/her
ORCID 0000-0003-0420-7765
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelLooking forward to this symposium and to my first visit to @dandrite.bsky.social next week. See you in Aarhus @avstempel.bsky.social, @fionamuellner.bsky.social and @lukechaosun.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelAscona meetings on neural circuits are amazing conferences in a beautiful setting in Switzerland spanning all scales from genetics and micro-circuit cracking to high level cognition. Check asconacircuits.org for the 2026 program and register soon, as it typically reaches capacity very quickly 🧠🧪
- Registration for the Ascona 2026 Meeting is now open. Go to asconacircuits.org to submit your abstract and register for the meeting! We are looking forward to seeing you in Switzerland this September! Ascona Meeting Organizers
- Reposted by Vanessa Stempel🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Vanessa Stempel1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelIntroducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w...
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- Very happy to announce a workshop I'm co-organising with Marion Silies and @crltt.bsky.social, taking place 2-4 Sept in Ingelheim, Germany! 'Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function', hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops @unimainz.bsky.social & with a fantastic line-up! Details below 🔻
- Registration is open! gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/flexibility-...
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelRegistration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelThe application deadline for the Sensation and Action conference 2025 is fast approaching! Join us for an exciting set of talks and for a chance to share your ideas: www.lakeconferences.org
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelCongratulations to @mpibrain.bsky.social director Gilles Laurent for being awarded the 2025 Louis-Jeantet prize for Medicine! The @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social recognizes Laurent's pioneering work on the operations of #neurons and dynamics of neuronal networks. More infos 👉 bit.ly/4hqk6ie
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- Reposted by Vanessa StempelI'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelMeet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelSharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.
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- Reposted by Vanessa StempelExcited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41... We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties. Threads will follow!
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelOK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
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- Reposted by Vanessa StempelNeuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelExcited to publish a broad set of enhancers to target interneuron types in the brain, along with a broad set of collaborators. Part of the BI armamentarium. Together this will help revolutionize the targeting of brain circuits.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.17.603924v2
- Reposted by Vanessa StempelAnnouncing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...
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- Reposted by Vanessa StempelA lot of what we do involves producing a sequence of movements, but how the CNS does that remains elusive. A recent @elife.bsky.social paper by Mehrdad Kashefi, @andpru.bsky.social et al provides compellign behavioural evidence that we plan a few movements ahead tinyurl.com/2j22x99n #neuroskyence
