Isabella S Balles

The paper identifies a novel pacemaker activity in Drosophila midgut called superstalsis, linked to specific muscle activation and gene expression under physiological conditions.

The paper investigates how neuromodulatory inputs control insulin-producing cells in Drosophila using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, connectomics, and electrophysiology, revealing heterogeneous receptor profiles and differential modulation.

This study shows that postsynaptic plasticity at cholinergic synapses in Drosophila mushroom bodies is essential for appetitive memory induction but not aversive memories.