Gerald M. Rubin

The paper identifies and characterizes sexually dimorphic neuron networks in Drosophila that regulate social behaviors, revealing their connectivity and distinct functional roles.

The paper investigates the roles of aIPg and pC1d cell types in generating a persistent aggressive internal state in female Drosophila, finding that aIPg stimulation induces aggression while pC1d stimulation does not, and that pC1d and pC1e work synergistically.

The paper generates and characterizes split-GAL4 driver lines for specific Drosophila central complex cell types, surveys neuropeptide and receptor expression, and identifies cell types involved in sleep regulation.

A FIB-SEM connectome of the male Drosophila right optic lobe sorts ∼53,000 neurons into 727 types, with neurotransmitter predictions and 577 matched split-GAL4 lines.

The paper introduces a new collection of over 800 split-GAL4 and split-LexA drivers for studying associative learning in Drosophila, covering 300 cell types and enabling functional analysis of neural circuits.

The paper describes a collection of split-GAL4 driver lines for targeting specific neuron types in Drosophila, enabling functional and molecular studies.

The paper reconstructs the connectome of the Drosophila anterior visual pathway to understand how visual inputs are processed for navigation.

The paper identifies three circuit mechanisms in Drosophila that adjust visual attention during aggressive states by amplifying responses to fly-sized visual objects.

The paper develops new GAL4 drivers for Drosophila Mushroom Body Output Neurons (MBONs), enabling optogenetic studies of their roles in behavior and learning.

This study identifies a neuronal population in Drosophila that integrates nutritional state and food patch density to regulate foraging decisions.

The paper identifies a cell type in Drosophila that detects translational optic flow and is essential for forward walking.

Roughly 23 thousand traced neurons and 10 million TBars of the male Drosophila nerve cord, reconstructed from electron microscopy, typed, and queryable in neuPrint down to motor neurons.

The paper provides a searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4-driver expression patterns at single neuron resolution to improve cell type identification and split-GAL4 combination prediction.

The paper introduces methods to prepare Drosophila brains for high-throughput FIB-SEM connectomics, enabling faster and more accurate imaging of neural connections.

The paper maps synaptic targets of color and polarization-sensitive photoreceptors in Drosophila, revealing modality-specific wiring and spatial segregation in neural circuits.

The paper presents the first complete connectome of the Drosophila central complex, revealing network motifs that support flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection.

PatchPerPixMatch automates 3D search for neuronal morphologies in Drosophila GAL4 line data by combining segmentation and efficient matching.

The paper describes the Drosophila olfactory system using a connectome, identifies information flow patterns, and quantifies stereotypy across individuals.

The paper investigates how spatial information is processed in a Drosophila glomerulus lacking retinotopy, finding that connectivity preserves spatial readout of visual looming.

Geosmin avoidance in Drosophila runs from a labelled line at the periphery into a distributed central representation spanning 80 third-order cell types, then into specific descending neurons.

This study identifies neuronal circuits in Drosophila that regulate female aggression through optogenetic manipulation and connectomic analysis.

This study identifies the neural network structure of the Drosophila heading direction system, confirming it contains ring attractor components and revealing novel structural features.

The paper maps the synaptic connectivity of the Drosophila mushroom body and identifies new circuit components and structures in sensory input processing and output modulation.

The paper reconstructs the complete connectome of olfactory projection neurons in the Drosophila brain and identifies new connectivity patterns in olfactory circuits.

The paper identifies anatomical subtypes of dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila and their specific input connectivity, revealing functional roles in reinforcement and memory.

The paper characterizes gene expression in 67 Drosophila visual system cell types using TAPIN-seq and genetic drivers, building a transcriptome resource to study neural circuit function.

The paper shows nitric oxide acts as a cotransmitter in dopaminergic neurons to modulate memory dynamics in Drosophila.

This study identifies two dopaminergic circuits in Drosophila that mediate opposing effects on alcohol consumption: one promoting preference and the other inducing avoidance.

The paper combines expansion and lattice light sheet microscopy to enable high-speed, nanoscale molecular imaging of neural circuits across large volumes.

The paper identifies two LH cell-types in Drosophila that are required for aversive memory retrieval and show that memory information is passed from the mushroom body to the lateral horn.