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Matthew Berck

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions

Claire Eschbach, Katrin Vogt, Bruno Afonso, Nick Polizos, Stephanie Dancausse, Anastasiia Evans, Anna Verbe, Kun Wang, Matthew Berck, Aravi Samuel, Mason Klein, Albert Cardona, Marta Zlatic

The paper identifies a neuron in Drosophila larvae that bi-directionally encodes valence and guides navigation based on sensory cues.

bioRxiv · Sep 26, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Synchronous and opponent thermosensors use flexible cross-inhibition to orchestrate thermal homeostasis

Luis Hernandez-Nunez, Alicia M. Chen, Gonzalo Budelli, Matthew Berck, Vincent Richter, Anna Rist, Andreas S. Thum, Albert Cardona, Mason Klein, Paul Garrity, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel

The paper identifies Warming Cells and Cooling Cells in Drosophila that use cross-inhibition to regulate thermal homeostasis through coordinated behavioral responses.

Science Advances · Aug 27, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Invariances in a combinatorial olfactory receptor code

Guangwei Si, Jessleen K Kanwal, Yu Hu, Christopher J. Tabone, Jacob Baron, Matthew Berck, Gaëtan Vignoud, Aravinthan D.T. Samuel

The paper investigates how olfactory receptor neurons encode odorant identity and intensity in Drosophila larvae, finding invariances through shared activation functions and power law distributions.

bioRxiv · Oct 25, 2017 · PreprintNeuroscience