Jasper S. Phelps

The paper presents the first densely reconstructed adult fruit fly connectome integrating the brain and ventral nerve cord, revealing distributed control circuits involving local and long-range neural connections.

The paper reconstructs and analyzes the female Drosophila ventral nerve cord connectome, identifying neural circuits that coordinate wings and legs during escape takeoff.

The paper analyzes premotor circuits in Drosophila to compare leg and wing motor control networks, finding modular organization and differences in synaptic connectivity.

The paper provides a connectomic description of ascending and descending neurons in the Drosophila nervous system, revealing sexual dimorphism and motor-related circuits.

The paper identifies two pairs of ascending histaminergic neurons that provide predictive motor signals to non-overlapping sensory and motor networks in flies.

The paper investigates biomechanical and molecular mechanisms underlying proprioceptor diversity in Drosophila legs, identifying a biomechanical basis for joint angle selectivity and a goniotopic map of joint angle.

The paper investigates how proprioceptive signals from Drosophila legs are processed by central circuits, revealing parallel pathways for internal and external mechanosensory feedback.

The paper presents a high-resolution EM dataset of Drosophila ventral nerve cord and develops GridTape for automated EM data collection, revealing a unique feedback pathway in motor control.

This paper introduces X-ray holographic nano-tomography for imaging dense neuronal structures in Drosophila and mammals, using convolutional neural networks for automated segmentation.