Ryan T. Maloney

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 investigates phenotypic drift in Drosophila melanogaster, showing it is influenced by genetics and neuromodulation and may be adaptive in fluctuating environments.

The paper evaluates melanopsin reporter systems for labeling retinal ganglion cells and finds no method labels all and only intrinsic photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.

The paper quantifies behavioral individuality in fruit flies using 80 million decisions from 183,000 flies, finding a left-bias in locomotor decisions and context-dependent effects of serotonin, sex, and temperature.