George Kolyfetis

Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social

We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...

Very proud of this new paper from the lab! Work by the magnificent Andrea Adden and many brilliant collaborators illuminate how moth and butterfly brains have evolved in light of different ecologies. Freely available here: rdcu.be/eVR3B; @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social

Really excited to see this great work published! It was an honor and unforgettable experience to be part of this joint effort in @scottvedwards.bsky.social lab!

Bees have thousands of eyes And some are made to look directly into the sun.

Your best Nic Cage "Not the bees!" impressions in 3... 2... 1...

www.popsci.com/environment/...

Congratulations to Anna Stöckl receiving the prestigious Walther-Arndt award from the German Zoological Society. #dzg2025 @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social 🥳🥂

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Horizontal cell connectivity in the anchovy retina—a 3D electron microscopic study - BMC Biology Background Block-face scanning electron microscopy has opened a new era of connectomics research, in which it is possible to make dense reconstructions of all cells in a clipping of a neuronal network...

I am excited to share our new paper on anchovy retina connectomics! This was a great collaboration with Prof. Heß at LMU Munich and an incredible opportunity to explore neural circuitry in a unique visual system.
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do SVs, satellite DNA & gene content shape avian genome evolution? We analyzed 45 HiFi genomes across 3 Scrub-Jay species with distinct population sizes. Grateful to be on this incredible team led by Scott Edwards! "Comparative population pangenomes" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're making a new WhereDoGGo logo.
After discussions, we decided to stop using the ASCII art representation of a certain Shiba Inu.

Please send us portraits of your doggos, so we can generate a new logo. The plan is to rotate with every major version.

Release WhereDoGGo_v20241212 · MEDEAlab/WhereDoGGo Changelog Major update. Despite our best efforts, there might be some bugs, please give us a heads up. Tested on ARM Apple machines and adapted some Shell scripts accordingly. Genome picking (dogg...

New WhereDoGGo? version online, now with balanced taxon sampling and new marker sets (among others).
github.com/MEDEAlab/Whe...