Georgia Dempsey
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@GeorgiaDempsey9
Currently: St Andrews, ScotGEM | Waddell group, Oxford. Previously: Drosophila Connectomics Group, Cambridge | MPIBR 🇩🇪 | University College Dublin 🇮🇪
How does neural connectivity support learning and memory? This (very long) paper provides insights, diving deep into the connectome of the fly mushroom body. A huge team effort that I was fortunate to be part of. Here are some of my favorite parts (1/22) elifesciences.org/articles/62576
It took us 11 years but: Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences nature.com/articles/s4158…
We are very happy to announce the eighty exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society this year, selected for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of science. Meet the new Fellows and find out more about their research: royalsociety.org/news/2023/05/n…
What makes us human? Neuroscientists map prominent differences in the neural circuits of mice, monkeys, and human!🧠New study by the @mh_lab @MpiBrain in collaboration with @TU_Muenchen published in Science @aaas! News: bit.ly/3OlFua4 Full story: bit.ly/3HODyEx
Sex pheromones are a great entry point to understand #brain #circuits. @istvan_taisz and I investigated how cVA, the canonical #Drosophila #pheromone, is processed to control social #behaviour – and how flies use cVA to “see” in the dark! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/14
@AnjaliGour18 summa cum laude for her PhD work on development of cortical circuits after birth, published in a landmark article in Science last year, on which she was sole first author. What an achievement for a PhD project. We are so proud of you, Anjali!!science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Does gene expression predict wiring in the cortex? Here we introduce a new technique, BARseq2, to answer this question BARseq2 looks at genes and axon projections at high throughput--thousands of single neurons and many genes per cell in parallel doi.org/10.1101/2020.0… 1/n
