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Benjamin M.W. Jones

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Descending neurons integrate learnt information from mushroom body with context to promote escape behaviour

Benjamin M.W. Jones, Samuel N Harris, Nicolò G. Ceffa, Albert Cardona, Marta Zlatic

The paper identifies a circuit mechanism in Drosophila larvae where descending neurons integrate learned information and contextual cues to activate specific escape behaviors.

bioRxiv · Sep 30, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

LarvaTagger: Manual and automatic tagging of Drosophila larval behaviour

François Laurent, Alexandre Blanc, Lilly May, Lautaro Gándara, Ben Cocanougher, Benjamin M.W. Jones, Peter Hague, Chloé Barré, Christian L. Vestergaard, Justin Crocker, Marta Zlatic, Tihana Jovanic, Jean‐Baptiste Masson

LarvaTagger combines a pre-trained deep neural network with a GUI for manual tagging and training new automatic taggers using updated ground truth.

Bioinformatics · Jul 1, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Statistical signature of subtle behavioural changes inlarge-scale behavioural assays

Alexandre Blanc, François Laurent, Alex Barbier–Chebbah, Ben Cocanougher, Benjamin M.W. Jones, Peter Hague, Marta Zlatic, Rayan Chikhi, Christian L. Vestergaard, Tihana Jovanic, Jean‐Baptiste Masson, Chloé Barré

The paper introduces statistical methods to detect subtle behavioural changes in Drosophila larvae from large-scale behavioural assays.

bioRxiv · May 3, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Serotonergic neurons mediate operant conditioning in Drosophila larvae

Elise C Croteau-Chonka, Michael S. Clayton, Lalanti Venkatasubramanian, Samuel N Harris, Benjamin M.W. Jones, Lakshmi Narayan, Michael Winding, Jean‐Baptiste Masson, Marta Zlatic, Kristina T Klein

This study demonstrates operant conditioning in Drosophila larvae by optogenetically activating serotonergic neurons and shows the ventral nerve cord's role in memory formation.

eLife · Oct 28, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience