Herman A. Dierick

The paper shows that locust swarming evolves through diverse molecular pathways rather than shared genes, highlighting flexible regulatory architectures and modular systems.

The paper characterizes a Shaker potassium channel in a grasshopper neuron involved in visual object segmentation through electrophysiology and computational modeling.

The paper identifies a hypomorphic SLC6A1 variant causing variable expressivity in neurodevelopmental disorders using clinical phenotyping and Drosophila models.

The paper investigates the role of ON and OFF motion detection pathways in Drosophila's escape behavior to looming stimuli, finding that inactivating these pathways selectively reduces escape responses to light or dark looming.