Olivia Goldman PhD

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Woohoo!!! Thanks so much again for the beautiful art, @somedonkey.bsky.social !! 🦟✨

🎉 Thrilled to see our #MosquitoCellAtlas featured on the cover of @cp-cell.bsky.social ! This mosaic represents 367K cells across 19 tissues, unveiling the complex biology that makes mosquitoes the world's deadliest animals. Beautiful art by @somedonkey.bsky.social meets the #Vosshalllab science! 🦟🎨

Happy to introduce our 25 2025 Alumni Scholarship Recipients!!

This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.

Head to Mosquitos: Cell atlas reveals sex differences in mosquitos – potentially applicable for disease spread management

📷 @oliviagoldman.net, AlexandraDefoe et al @rockefeller.edu
in @cellpress.bsky.social

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with
John Ankers

FERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior Mapping Animal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s...

Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required.
It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)

Awesome!! Would love to discuss with you some new applications of this 🐁✨️ (e congratulazioni!!)

#SfN25 stop by board ZZ5! We are presenting FERAL!

#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai

Thank you Ryan!! Was great to have the opportunity to work with you! 🦟🙌

I'm happy that I could contribute even a small part to this fantastic and monumental study! Huge shoutout to @oliviagoldman.net @nadavshai.bsky.social and @leslievosshall.bsky.social for their incredible leadership in organizing this massive project!

Flyer for Connections Week: Paths into Mind and Brain Careers panel.

TOMORROW – for CSU East Bay Students! ⁠
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Our Co-Founder/Board Secretary @oliviagoldman.net participates in "Paths into Mind and Brain Careers" for CSU East Bay's Connections Week!
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🕰️ Tuesday, 11/4, 12pm to 2pm⁠
📍University Union, Multipurpose Room (CSU East Bay)
➡️ lrubio12.wordpress.com/event

Thank you so much for contributing your valuable expertise, Ben!! 🪰✨

Great to see that our mosquito cell atlas is now out in Cell. Amazing work from @oliviagoldman.net and @nadavshai.bsky.social to organise so much data and so many interesting stories into a single paper!

Excited to team up with CSU East Bay for Connections Week (Nov 4-8)!
➡️ lrubio12.wordpress.com/event…

11/5, @latinodeciencia.bsky.social leads a virtual workshop on applying to summer research & grad school (open to all!) 🎓

11/4, @oliviagoldman.net joins the Paths into Mind & Brain Careers panel! 🧠

Such creative and insightful work - Congrats, Leah!!! 🥳🦟

The male genitalia of an 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 mosquito

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?

Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

Thank you Leah - Congrats on your awesome new mosquito mating paper as well!!! 😮💫

A real game-changer for the mosquito community - all packed in a beautiful paper!!!!

Check out the Aedes aegypti Mosquito Cell Atlas for yourself!! Acessible from your web browser thanks to @genomebrowser.bsky.social & @ucscgenomics.bsky.social!!

If you have a min to report to us what your favorite gene looks like, we would love to hear about it 😃✨

mosquito.cells.ucsc.edu

🦟 The mosquito is the most deadly animal in the world. The Mosquito Cell Atlas is an incredible new resource to help us understand more about their ability to transmit pathogens to humans.

Data is available on the UC Santa Cruz @genomebrowser.bsky.social at mosquito.cells.ucsc.edu

Marcus F. Oliveira, Roenick P. Olmo, Umberto Palatini, Zeaan M. Pithawala, @julienpompon.bsky.social, Yan Reis, João Rodrigues, @vectorimmunity.bsky.social

Congratulations & thank you to all !! 😊💫

& the Mosquito Cell Atlas Consortium!

Joshua X.D. Ang, Igor Antoshechkin, Yu Cai, Fangying Chen, @ycchentw.bsky.social, @juliendevilliers.bsky.social , Linhan Dong, Roberto Feuda, Paolo Gabrieli, Artyom Kopp, Hyeogsun Kwon, Hsing-Han Li, Tzu-Chiao Lu, Thalita Lucio, João T. Marques, ...

Brittney Wick, Maximilian Haeussler, Shih-Che Weng, Omar Akbari, @leahhouri.bsky.social, Priyanka Lakhiani, @takeshimorita.bsky.social, @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social, Adriana Rosas-Villegas, Yael N. Tsitohay, Madison Walker, ...

And sincerely none of this would be possible without our small mosquito-loving village of collaborators for believing in and making brilliant contributions to this project! Yaoyu Jiao, @trevorsorrells.bsky.social, @laurabduvall.bsky.social, Helen White-Cooper, @brhopkins92.bsky.social,...

Thank you to our core team - @nadavshai.bsky.social, @alexandradefoe.bsky.social & @leslievosshall.bsky.social !!
Hongjie Li, Yanyan Qi, Roshan Sharma for guiding this project since Day 1...

Appropriate for a Halloween release because I've always thought of primarily-nectar-feeding mosquitoes as "vampire butterflies"! 🧛‍♀️🦇🤓

For insights from the paper, check out the pre-print thread below!!
bsky.app/profile/oliv...

A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

Mosquito cell atlas is now published! Congratulations to @nadavshai.bsky.social and @oliviagoldman.net and the many other collaborators that contributed to this resource. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸

There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...