Burak Gür

This study shows that losing olfaction in Drosophila enhances visual learning through structural and functional changes in neural circuits.

The paper identifies how Drosophila visual circuits achieve stable contrast processing in natural scenes through spatially pooled luminance signals and divisive normalization.

The paper identifies heterogeneous synaptic connectivity in Drosophila visual columns, showing Tm9 neurons have diverse inputs compared to uniform Tm1 and Tm2 neurons.

The paper shows that first-order visual interneurons in Drosophila distribute contrast and luminance information across ON and OFF pathways to maintain stable behavior under changing illumination.

The paper shows that local direction-selective T4/T5 neurons in Drosophila encode optic flow fields for self-motion, forming a population code similar to vertebrates.

The paper shows that dFezf coordinates laminar-specific connectivity in Drosophila by both cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic mechanisms.