Anita V. Devineni

This study shows that activating reward-encoding dopamine neurons in Drosophila induces innate aversion while also promoting learned attraction, revealing distinct roles in immediate and future behaviors.

The paper maps Drosophila taste circuits using a whole-brain connectome, revealing modular organization and modality-specific connectivity patterns.

This study shows that dArc genes in Drosophila melanogaster regulate sugar reward valuation through capsid-mediated intercellular communication, affecting associative learning and reward valuation.

This study investigates how neural circuits in Drosophila mediate different behavioral responses to sugar, finding overlapping and diverging pathways at specific neuronal levels.

The paper investigates how different bitter taste inputs are integrated in Drosophila, showing early convergence and later divergence in neural pathways.

This study shows that brief exposure to sugar or bitter taste in Drosophila modulates future feeding responses, indicating a memory of taste stimuli that persists after the stimulus is gone.

The paper examines temporal dynamics of bitter taste responses in Drosophila, showing that bitter-sensing neurons exhibit both ON and OFF responses influencing synaptic plasticity and aversive learning.

This study shows that acetic acid elicits opposing feeding responses in Drosophila depending on hunger state, mediated by distinct taste pathways.