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Avirut Mehta

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Organism:Drosophila· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1

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A dopamine circuit regulates locomotor initiation and persistence in Drosophila

Xinke Wen, Kristin E. Connors, Chris C. Snell, Ryan McGrath, Avirut Mehta, Daisuke Hattori

This paper identifies a dopamine circuit in Drosophila that regulates locomotor initiation and termination by integrating locomotor history and current motivation.

bioRxiv · Nov 18, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila

Moise Bonheur, Kurtis J. Swartz, Melissa G. Metcalf, Anna Zhukovskaya, Avirut Mehta, Kristin E. Connors, Julia G. Barasch, Xinke Wen, Andrew R. Jamieson, Kelsey C. Martin, Richard Axel, Daisuke Hattori

This paper develops a bidirectional neural activity reporter in Drosophila and uses it to study social behaviors, showing fruitless is required for male arousal neuron activation by female cues.

bioRxiv · Apr 10, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience