Virtual Fly Brain @virtualflybrain
VFB makes exploring Drosophila neuroanatomy easy: Find brain regions, neurons, transgenes, phenotypes, papers in a few simple clicks. Join us on GitHub to help virtualflybrain.org GitHub: http://bit.ly/1gbixTa Joined March 2011-
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New #FlyBook chapter! Drosophila postembryonic nervous system development: a model for the endocrine control of development academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…
We will be at NeuroFly-2022 with a talk about all the things you can do on VFB - "Virtual Fly Brain - A hub for Drosophila Melanogaster Neural Anatomy, Imaging Data & Connectomics" (T6) and a poster on making your data FAIR and sharable with VFB (P158). #Neurofly2022
Applications are now open for Structure and Function of the Insect Central Complex, the sixth in a series of Janelia-hosted meetings on this highly conserved insect brain region. 🧠 📅 Application deadline: July 7 More info 👉 janelia.org/you-janelia/co… @janeliaconf
Thank you @BBSRC for funding our work on #decision-making in #Drosophila *PDRA and tech posts coming soon*. Pls, RT and reach out if you might know of someone interested. I will be attending #FENS (Paris) and #ICN (Lisbon) in July. Pls, get in touch if you want to chat.
First Pool Lab pre-print: bit.ly/3yoewcy. We resolve a major pain with 3’ single-cell RNA-sequencing (10x Genomics etc.) – missing gene expression data from thousands of genes. This stems from suboptimal reference transcriptomes and can easily be recovered. T below: 1/12
Come join us @MRC_LMB, Cambridge, the birthplace of #connectomics! New group leader position (TT/T) with long-term core funding for staff, students and equipment. Interest in development/application of synaptic resolution imaging (hardware/software) encouraged. Pls RT (or DM)!
Some more on our FAIRware collaboration here: Towards FAIR community metadata practices by @RaphaelS101 link.medium.com/v0YYcngMMpb
What are the guidelines for describing new cell types? Surprisingly, there were not any general guidelines until last week, when our pre-print got out: arxiv.org/abs/2204.09673 (with @chrismungall , @paola_roncaglia et al.) A thread 🧶
We have had a major network disruption so it will take us a few hours to restore all our services. sorry for the inconvenience.
If you are experiencing issues accessing VFB using Safari see virtualflybrain.org/blog/1/01/01/f…
Excited to share our latest work - we use pan-neuronal 2 photon imaging to dissect how the #brain integrates multiple internal states to guide #food #choice! Fantastic work by @dahaniel who took on this challenging project almost solo! #drosophila biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/21
FINALLY my paper is out ! nature.com/articles/s4146…
A number of our users have custom installations of OLS, OxO and Zooma. @NicoMatentzoglu has created a page where you can you tell us about your custom EBI Ontology Tools installation and your use case: github.com/EBISPOT/ontoto…
Thank you for the highlight! Also please check out the fantastic @eLife Insight article by @stanley_heinze, which exquisitely contextualizes our work, led by first and corresponding author Ben Hardcastle. elifesciences.org/articles/68684
Thank you for the highlight! Also please check out the fantastic @eLife Insight article by @stanley_heinze, which exquisitely contextualizes our work, led by first and corresponding author Ben Hardcastle. elifesciences.org/articles/68684
It's not too late to join our 'Exploring the connectome' workshop @neurofly2020 with @uni_matrix @martamcosta2 @robbiecourt1977 @gsxej. We still have room for a few more. Sign up here: forms.gle/66dqkVt2ES4kjn…. You'll need to be registered for neurofly2020.com to attend.
Hello VFB users - we would like to ask a favour. It would be really helpful to us if you could fill out our user survey: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5HDZZRR. It won't take long. It will be really helpful to us and you get to guide our future development and suggest new features.
We still have a few slots left for our 'Exploring the connectome' workshop at Neurofly forms.gle/66dqkVt2ES4kjn…. You'll need to be registered for neurofly2020.com to attend. Early Bird registration closes on April 12th.
We are running a VFB User Survey, if you have used the site please consider completing this survey to help us improve it: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5HDZZRR

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