Dragana Rogulja

Hormonal control of motivational circuitry orchestrates the transition to sexuality in Drosophila

This study shows that juvenile hormone suppresses sexual motivation in young male Drosophila, and its decline allows the activation of latent courtship circuits.

Daily rewiring of a neural circuit generates a predictive model of environmental light

The paper describes a model in flies that uses daily neural circuit rewiring to predict environmental light changes based on time-of-day.

A gut-secreted peptide controls arousability through modulation of dopaminergic neurons in the brain

This paper identifies a gut-to-brain signaling pathway in Drosophila that modulates arousability from sleep through a peptide, CCHa1, which affects dopaminergic neurons.