Thomas Frank

We are sharing tools and knowledge to create and use virtual realities for (adult) (zebra)fish. Great work by Alex Javier, Sriram Narayanan and others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"Using molecular markers, tract tracing, and quantitative comparisons of cellular 12 distribution patterns, we report a detailed neuroanatomical atlas of the adult Danionella dracula (“Dracula fish”) telencephalon." New #Danionella work from Perelmuter & Bass at Cornell 🐟 @danionella.bsky.social

We had amazing talks at the #ECRO2026 symposium "Modulation of chemosensation" organized by @modolfor.bsky.social members @silkesachse.bsky.social and @katrinvogt.bsky.social. Big thanks to all speakers: Nilay Yapici, Markus Knaden, @frankfishlab.bsky.social and Markus Rothermel

🐸 Postdoc Position (m/f/d) in Neurobiology! The project focuses on how smell shapes feeding behavior in poison frogs and is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Jennifer Stynoski (Costa Rica). 🌎🌿 . For more information and to apply, please use the link below. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Exciting new results from our neighbors in the @mace-lab.bsky.social! Using functional ultrasound imaging, they look at brain-wide activity patterns in response to arousing events, showing propagation from subcortical regions to the cortex, and find a surprisingly weak modulation by noradrenaline!

Arousal elicits a brain-wide hemodynamic wave independent of locus coeruleus noradrenergic tone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.06.710089v1

In @elife.bsky.social: Pallium-encoded valence-specific chemosensory amplification of eye-body coordination in larval zebrafish doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨. Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

🎉 I am very glad to share that our paper on the rapid isotropic light-sheet microscope has just been published in Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com. 🔗 Read the full article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Massive FOMo seeing the posts of people heading to #SfN2025, all that beach...ehm.. science I’m missing 😭 If you’re there, go say hi to the brilliant Bruno Pilcher and the INSS crew, who just built my lab a custom multiphoton microscope with a spatial light modulator that is pure chef’s kiss 👨‍🍳💋✨

New work from Baier Lab 🧠 🐟 🔗 to paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ohhh, that looks cool, also quite a few nice refs to the immune role of neuropeptides, including in the gut

New paper with @gili-ezranevo.bsky.social & Silvia Henriques from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social's lab out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Appetite, driven by amino acid need 🥚🍖 reshapes olfactory receptor expression so flies 🪰 seek bacteria 🦠 and fermented cues 🥫 to restore nutritional balance ⚖️.

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The most universally agreed upon property that sets emotion/affect apart from everything else is valence: approach/avoid; pleasant/unpleasant. Here they target its computation in flies, where you can really figure out the biology. We know so little about how valence is computed by brains. Exciting!

How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ever wonder if there are spatial maps in the brain outside the hippocampal-entorhinal regions? In this preprint, we describe a novel spatial map in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) that preserves the topological arrangements and distance between locations. However, ... www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Want to image the adult zebrafish brain? Here's a nifty design that I made with the help of a talented master's student, Corey Steinhauser. Supporting files here! morgridge.org/research/lab...

Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information: 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We currently have open positions for PhD and Postdocs! Interested in learning fUS: please apply! brainwidenetworks.uni-goettingen.de/open-positio...

Exciting new results now published in Science: responses to visual objects are boosted in the brain's spatial navigation system. Read more in the thread below! Congratulations to all the authors!!

Physik studieren? Oder ein anderes Fach? In Göttingen geht jetzt beides, mit dem "Bachelor Interdisziplinär", der Physik mit spannenden Disziplinen Eurer Wahl, wie z.B. Künstlicher Intelligenz, Philosophie, Neurowissenschaften, ... kombiniert. www.uni-goettingen.de/de/studium/6...

A. James Hudpseth, who died 16 August at age 79, devoted his 50-year career to untangling how the ear converts sound into electrical signals. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/hearing/reme...

New preprint on common algorithms and evolutionary inventions that may account for apparent idiosyncratic encoding of odor concentration across species millions of years apart by taking advantage of divisive normalization: steered by Yang Shen, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social and Saket Navlakha. 1/3

🔗 to original research: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Exciting opportunity! Strongly encourage to apply.

🚨New(ish) preprint In mice, visual objects are encoded in the navigation syst, not much in the visual cx, certainly because they are used for orientation. This new version now includes cool comp work from @dlevenstein.bsky.social using @kenmiller.bsky.social's SSNs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Order matters: neurons in the human brain fire in sequences that encode information www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very exciting work! Congratulations to the entire team.

Starter packs are great, but they can only have 150 accounts on them. Check out my much larger list of Brain and Mind researchers here - and let me know if you would like to be added! #neuroskyence #psychscisky bsky.app/profile/mica...

Flushed cheeks, racing hearts, nervous tummies - all the stuff of where emotion meets interoception (the feeling of what's happening in our bodies). Which brain region seems to be involved? You guessed it, Insula! It's Day 5 of Insula week; let's talk about emotion & interoception. (A thread).

Aversive stimulus-tuned responses in the CA1 of the dorsal hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're happy to share the extension of the ZETA-test into a full-fledged statistical family. 📈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Now you can also include more cells in your GCaMP data, and perform two-sample comparisons, all binning-free! With Jorrit Montijn and Alexander Heimel. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience

Synaptic Zn2+ contributes to deleterious consequences of spreading depolarizations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.27.564408v1

😱📣 BlueSky-ers: WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 🙏 All of you who ever liked a lecture of mine... All of you who liked one of the courses I teach in... All of you I work(ed) with in one way or another... All of you who see my desperation! 😜 PLEASE re-post! 🙏 careers.humantechnopole.it/o/postdoc-in...

In our new pre-print, we found that "fear profiles" can be decoded from the ventral visual stream whether participants report being afraid of the stimuli or not. It is the interaction between the prefrontal and visual cortices that seemed to support subjective fear www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cited more than 1300 times, 'The behaviour and ecology of the zebrafish, Danio rerio' by Spence et al. (2007) highlights the special abilities of a small cyprinid found on the Indian subcontinent. A more recent take by Parichy (2015) expands on this in the context of evolution. #ZebrafishFunFacts

I’m hiring!! Want to join our team? We need another software engineer! 🔥 hit me up on Linkedin ⬇️

The shoal is up over 200 now 🤩 If you are looking for #zebrafish tweeps to follow, check our followers list. Most have found us 🙏 #RockOn

Differential encoding of odor and place in mouse piriform and entorhinal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.05.561119v1

#compneuro 🧠🤖

Brain state transitions primarily impact the spontaneous rate of slow-firing neurons - now out in CellReports doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroskyence #compneuro