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Janelia is a pioneering research center where scientists from many disciplines gather to collaborate

Janelia's overall objective is to pursue fundamental problems in basic biomedical research that are difficult to approach in academia and industry, because:

* They require expertise from disparate areas.
* They are too long-term for standard funding mechanisms.
* They are outside the current priorities of other funding agencies.

09/23/2021

🏵️ Take a moment to enjoy this beautiful orange poppy flower basking in the sun at the Janelia campus. Photographed by our Erik Snapp.

09/13/2021

Reddish feathers on the head, neck and shoulders are common among male house finches, like this one captured on campus by Janelian Erik Snapp.

09/06/2021

👽 While it looks alien, this cluster of spore-bearing sporangia called sorus can be found on the underside of a fern frond, in this case, a tiny polypody fern, Polypodium virginianum. Captured and stained by Janelian Igor Siwanowicz.

09/01/2021

Wishing you a happy first day of September with this lovely bluebird on the Janelia campus, captured by our Erik Snapp. 🐦

08/30/2021

🐞 The saliva of aphids and other insects creates growths on plants called galls which provide bugs a protected place to feed and reproduce. Janelia scientists have identified the insect genes that direct gall development.

🍂 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3sXN3tC

08/26/2021

Desmidiliaes comprises more than 8000 species of single-cell fresh water algae worldwide, exhibiting vast diversity of shapes and sizes. Desmids, like these captured at 400x magnification by Janelian Igor Siwanowicz, prefer nutrient-poor, slightly acidic water, and have low tolerance for heavy metals. 🎸

08/18/2021

🥚 A female fruit fly can lay hundreds of eggs in her short life—but only after mating. Researchers at Janelia have untangled the neural pathway that gives a fly’s egg-laying machinery the green light.

🚦 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3AUXYa6

08/16/2021

☕ In pre-pandemic times, Janelians used 2,000 mugs per day, and went through almost 2.5 tons of coffee each year. Do you have a Janelia mug out in the wild? Share a picture of yours in the comments!

08/09/2021

Neurons, take your places! Watch as cells that eventually become neurons (🔴, 🟠, and 🟡 spheres) migrate during embryonic development. This view is made possible by an imaging method that allows researchers to observe blossoming neurons in living animals.

🤩 Read more: https://bit.ly/3Ar1CIU

08/05/2021

🐌 Besides its shell, the only hard part of a snail is its tongue. 👅 This snail tongue (or radula), captured at 250x magnification by Janelian Igor Siwanowicz, is made of hundreds of tiny chitinous teeth. Those hard teeth are used to scrape algae off of rocks.

08/03/2021

Scientific Operations Lead Technician of the COSEM (Cell Organelle Segmentation in Electron Microscopy) Team, Grace Park enjoys painting and drawing on her tablet which she uses to annotate multiple organelles inside cells.

Learn more about the COSEM Project: https://bit.ly/3BPpqY6

08/02/2021

By tracing the winding paths of neurons in the fly brain, Janelia and Google scientists have constructed the most complete map of the fly brain ever created, pinpointing millions of connections between 25,000 neurons.

🧠 Read more: https://bit.ly/2Vuri8k

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