Alfonso Martin Peña

Im excited to share that I was awarded with an Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant from the @alzassociation to continue studying the spreading mechanisms of Tau. Thanks for supporting the beginning of a very exciting journey #ENDALZ

Looking forward to tomorrow's @UFMBI /@UFNeuroscience @UFexplore seminar with @IgnacioSaezPhD from @IcahnMountSinai. It will be memorable!

Honored to host David Anderson from @Caltech @HHMINEWS this week @UFMBI @UFNeuroscience @UFexplore Come join us for some cool sciences!

@dsitaraman @eLife Beautiful and massive work. Congrants!

And now its published as a version of record in Elife. In @elife: Cell type-specific driver lines targeting the Drosophila central complex and their use to investigate neuropeptide expression and sleep regulation doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

@may_khanna What kind of soup are you making?

It begins 🎃🎃🎃

Such a beautiful morning Fundraising and Walking for Alzheimer's Disease along with #UFCTRND colleagues! Still enough time to donate to a good cause: act.alz.org/site/TR?team_i…

#walk2endalz under the sun with some amazing scientists #alzfunded

It is a privilege to have Gaby Maimon from @RockefellerUniv @HHMINEWS with us tomorrow @UFNeuroscience @UFMBI @UFexplore

One the cool possibilities from the #fly #connectome is the ability to run simulations. I've finally got around to experimenting with the "Leaky Integrate and Fire" model by @Philip_Shiu et al. Here are test simulations of 3x Mi1 optic cells, followed by their whole columns

#sfn2024 tweeps! Get your copy of the #FlyWire special issue autographed by @murthylab at the @SpringerNature booth. Connectome connectome connectome. H/T @BobbyKasthuri

@KayserLab Nice!! Congrats to the team!

Check out our latest! Going from human🤷‍♂️to fly🪰to fish 🐟 as we try to figure out what makes some people excessively sleepy during the day - idiopathic hypersomnia💤 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@SergioHidalgoSo @WSUPullman @WSUvetmed Way to go!! Really cool research, looking forward to the new findings!

I am thrilled to announce that I will start my lab in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at @WSUPullman @WSUvetmed in July 2025! We’ll use Drosophila to study how seasons influence brain structure and function, from molecules to physiology and behavior.

📢Boricua, vas a #SfN2024? No te pierdas el Puerto Rico Social! 🇵🇷 Riega la voz! @albit_caban, Aranza Torrado & @CBravoRivera Registrate aquí 👇🏼 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The UF Department of Neuroscience, along with our neurology partners, is proud to be ranked No. 3 nationally among all universities (public & private) in NIH funding. #UFNeuro

I couldnt be prouder of Hannah Strother. She joined my group year and a half ago. In this time, she has grown immensely and on her last day w/ us she culminated her growth winning the First Place Presentation Award for her summer research project #SNIP #TheTanseyLegacy #Vamos! 💪🏻

Congrats to 2024's Summer Neuroscience Internship Program and NEURON-Aging students, who presented their final projects today. The two programs provide undergrads with research mentors and offer hands-on experience in the lab. Learn more: bit.ly/4bZvpe6

Happy birthday to renowned neuropsychologist Brenda Milner, who is celebrating her 106th birthday today! 🎈 🎁 While she may not count her age among her many achievements, in this video she did share a few thoughts (and a bit of folklore) about birthdays past and present.

awesome collab with @janeliagenie to get jGCaMP8 sensors that are better expressed & brighter in fly - while still retaining those kickass kinetics!!! at @flystocks & if you want to make your own lines at @Addgene - enjoy!

With FB2024_03, we added another 150 images to the #FrequentlyUsedGAL4DriversTable flybase.org/GAL4/freq_used…. This resource now includes 337 GAL4 alleles: the 150 most-ordered from @flystocks and/or those used in at least 20 publications. 90% of alleles in the table now have images

Tavel awards for PhD students attending Neurofly!