Drosophila

Using the fruit fly connectome, researchers are mapping human neurobiology in unprecedented detail.

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Flatiron Institute researchers Daniel Lee and Lawrence Saul won FlyWire’s Ventral Nerve Cord Matching Challenge for their method of aligning the neural networks of a male and female fruit fly. Credit: Tyler Sloan and Amy Sterling for FlyWire

People

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Rediet Abebe

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

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Rhiannon Adam

Photographic Artist

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Alexandre Adam

Flatiron Research Fellow, Centers for Computational Astrophysics and Computational Mathematics

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Ryan Adams

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Research Teams

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Developmental Dynamics

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Center for Computational Biology

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Neural Circuits and Algorithms

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Center for Computational Mathematics

Publications

Topological Phase Transitions Induced by Disorder in Magnetically Doped (Bi, Sb)\(_2\)Te\(_3\) Thin Films

October 13, 2026

Takuya Okugawa, Peizhe Tang, Rubio, Angel, and Dante M. Kennes

Single-particle spectral function formulated and calculated by variational Monte Carlo method with application to \(d\)-wave superconducting state

October 13, 2026

Charlebois, Maxime and Masatoshi Imada

Ultrasound evidence for a two-component superconducting order parameter in Sr\(_2\)RuO\(_4\)

October 13, 2026

S. Benhabib, C. Lupien, I. Paul, L. Berges, M. Dion, M. Nardone, et al.

Plaquette versus ordinary \(d\)-wave pairing in the \(t’\)-Hubbard model on a width 4 cylinder

October 13, 2026

C. Chung, Mingpu Qin, Zhang, Shiwei, Ulrich Schollwöck, and S. White

Video

Placeholder: Jessica Zung | A Fly’s-Eye View: Using Naturalistic Stimuli to Understand Visual Feature Processing | Simons Society of Fellows Retreat 2026

News & Features

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Simons Foundation Announces 2026–2027 Class of SURFiN Fellows

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How Math Helped Argentine Sparrows Relearn Lost Songs

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Applications Open for 2027 Fellows-to-Faculty Award Program

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Applications Open for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Software & Data

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aLENS

Software
Simulates microtubule assemblies with motor proteins using Monte Carlo dynamics, constrained collision handling, and massive parallelization.

Astra

Software
Analysis framework for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) Milky Way Mapper.
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Astrometry.net

Software
Maps any astronomical image to sky coordinates (WCS) with no false positives, even without metadata, enabling real-time use across archives.
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BridgeStan

Software
BridgeStan gives in-memory access to Stan models via multiple languages, exposing log densities, gradients, Hessians, transforms, and predictions.

Community

Drosophila Journal Club

Hosted by the Center for Computational Biology, our recurring meeting provides a casual forum for researchers to connect and share ideas.

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Talks & Lectures

GIZMO code dev meeting

October 12–14, 2026

Taking Pictures and Making Movies of Supermassive Black Holes

Lecture

October 14, 2026

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Shep Doeleman

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2026 MPS Annual Meeting

Conference

October 15–16, 2026

AstroFest 2026

October 15, 2026

1–5 p.m. ET

Center for Computational Biology

CCB researchers are pioneering an approach that integrates theory, computation and experimentation—pushing the boundaries of biological inquiry.

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