Chris Jernigan

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Projects focus on the neuroethology and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share! #PhDposition #PhD #wasplove

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@PlasticPercep Chris! Congratulations on starting your lab!!

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Projects focus on the neuroethology and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share! #PhDposition #PhD #wasplove

For more information about the graduate programs at WFU pleas see this link: biology.wfu.edu/graduate/

For more information about the graduate programs at WFU pleas see this link: biology.wfu.edu/graduate/

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Projects focus on the neuroethology and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share! #PhDposition #PhD #wasplove

Ok… I’ll give this a try… bsky.app/profile/chrisj…

@gVallortigara @cowbirdlab @mirkuz12 @OrsolaSalv52285 Congrats!

Our paper on PNAS is out! #DmitryKobylkov @mirkuz12 @OrsolaSalv52285 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We found a population of neurons that respond to a face-like visual stimulus in chicks not previously exposed to faces. #face #neuron #innateness #innate #brain

Another amazing display by Emily Jernigan:

Check out this amazing work on the genome of a strange Polistes wasp parasite led by @MariaCastanoGal and @AvispaTica 👇👇

Strong course program - Advanced Neural Data Analysis & Neuroinformatics School 2024. Check out andani.info for more info. 📅 Apply by August 21, 2024 @BernsteinNeuro @crc1451 @PrutYifat @PlasticPercep

if you are not attending you can still learn about them in this pre-print: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you are attending #icn2024berlin this week come see my talk about a special group of neurons in the brain of Polistes fuscatus on Thursday at 10:30AM!

Original article by Hart et al. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Short dispatch: #bib1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This was a fun piece to write with @IDsignals about the clonal raider ants and their potential as a system to uncover the intriguing mechanisms of olfactory plasticity! Short dispatch highlighting the amazing work by @DanielKronauer, Taylor Hart, and colleagues! links below!

@IDsignals @DanielKronauer Original Paper by Hart et al. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Short dispatch: #bib1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out this dispatch @PlasticPercep and I wrote about the development of olfactory processing in ants from work by @DanielKronauer and Taylor Hart Developmental biology: Wait a bit and then you’ll smell it sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are hiring two post docs to work on the neural bases of visual cognition in bees under virtual reality conditions! Join our team @Sorbonne_Univ_ and work in the stimulating environment of @IBPS_Paris! See the offer here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR… Apply as soon as possible!

#Postdoc #Job Alert! The Cook Lab is hiring! We are excited to hire a postdoctoral researcher to study the mechanisms of social behavior in a changing environment #academia #academictwitter employment.marquette.edu/postings/21269

New preprint from the lab led by @MatthewZipple examining the role of competition and contingency (ie, luck) in shaping the lives of rewilded lab mice 🐁 🍀 🎲 Takeaway-competition causes genetically identical individuals to go on self-reinforcing life trajectories … 1/n

A link to our previous paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

We can localize these selective front-facing wasp units, or neurons, to one part of the brain, the lateral protocerebrum. This is near where we had previously predicted these circuits to be located based on neuromorphological data and a social isolation treatment. 3/10

Thrilled to share a *NEW PRE-PRINT* I’ve been working on for the last few years! @IDsignals, W. Freiwald, and I describe the neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

Lastly, I would like to again thank my co-authors and mentors @IDsignals & Winrich Freiwald as well as tons of feedback and support from too many colleagues to list over the years! 10/10

This work is just the tip of the iceberg as we hope to crack this system open to study the developmental tuning of this circuit, the social brain, object processing in insects, and the evolution of this circuit from closely related species that lack facial recognition. 9/10

We argue these wasp cells are part of an independently evolved (eyes & brain!) facial recognition circuit. This finding suggests that highly selective neurons tuned to axes of variation associated with identity features are necessary for visual recognition in the brain. 8/10