Lisa M. Fenk

This paper shows how hunger reconfigures a reward circuit in Drosophila to support memory formation by switching dopamine neuron activity modes.

The paper identifies gap junctions between motor and visual neurons in Drosophila that enable efference copy signaling and visuomotor transformation during gaze shifts.

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 shows non-heritable variation in neural circuit development causes individual differences in behavior using Drosophila.

The paper develops a model to predict object orienting behaviors in tethered flies and finds it aligns with experimental results on turning responses and object tracking.