Chin‐Lin Chen

The paper identifies ascending neurons in Drosophila that encode high-level behaviors and project to brain regions involved in sensory integration and action selection.

The paper records descending neuron activity in Drosophila during limb-dependent behaviors to understand their role in motor control.

This paper develops microfabricated tools for long-term, minimally invasive imaging of the Drosophila ventral nerve cord in behaving adults, enabling longitudinal studies of neural circuit dynamics.

The paper shows that programmed cell death shapes neural networks in insects by reducing flight interneuron populations and demonstrates that blocking cell death leads to functional undead neurons.

This study shows that serotonin modulates walking speed in Drosophila in various contexts and in response to environmental changes through distinct serotonergic receptors.

The paper introduces a method for 2-photon functional imaging in Drosophila ventral nerve cord during behavior and identifies activity patterns in specific neurons.