Laia Serratosa Capdevila

The paper presents tools to reconstruct spinal cord circuits and identifies modality-specific inhibitory synapses between sensory neurons and inhibitory neurons.

The paper maps synaptic connections in the mouse spinal dorsal horn to show how different sensory modalities are routed through distinct pathways to the brain.

The paper identifies structured connectivity patterns in Drosophila mushroom bodies across multiple connectomes, showing reproducible pathways that prioritize food-related sensory information.

The paper presents the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system and compares it to the female connectome, identifying sex-specific and dimorphic neuronal types.

The paper identifies conserved head direction circuits in bees, ants, and flies, showing stability over 300 million years with evolvable synaptic differences.

This paper presents a high-resolution developmental transcriptional atlas of the Drosophila nerve cord, identifying three principles governing neuronal diversity and sex-specific differences.

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 analyzes CO2-sensing circuits in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, finding high recurrent connectivity among CO2-sensitive neurons and proposing it enhances CO2 detection.

This study identifies descending neurons in Drosophila that predict and influence orientation during walking, showing they integrate internal and external steering signals to produce flexible control.

The paper presents the first neuronal wiring diagram of a whole adult Drosophila brain, revealing synaptic connections and circuit mechanisms underlying sensorimotor behaviors.

This study identifies descending neurons in Drosophila that control steering by modulating limb gestures during different phases of locomotion.

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

This study shows that dopamine release in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) increases orexin neuron activity through dopamine D2 receptors, revealing a new mechanism linking dopamine and reward expectation.

Annotating the 127,978-neuron FlyWire fly connectome yields 4,552 cell types, 3,094 cross-validated against the hemibrain; cell-type edges above 10 synapses or 1.1% of input recur over 90% across hemispheres.

This study identifies striatum-projecting prefrontal cortex neurons as critical for spatial working memory maintenance in mice.

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

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