Thierry Emonet

This study identifies a neural circuit in Drosophila that computes odor motion by transforming bilateral odor inputs into direction-selective signals.

The paper shows that growth-dependent sensory bet-hedging improves collective navigation in uncertain environments by balancing exploration and exploitation.

This study shows that phage resistance in E. coli leads to diverse single-cell motility outcomes and signaling pathway changes, revealing trade-offs and trade-ups in motility and chemotaxis.

This study shows that fruit flies use odor gradient and motion cues differently depending on plume structure, with gradients guiding in smooth plumes and motion in turbulent ones.

This paper introduces a high-throughput method to quantify phage attachment to bacterial cells using fluorescence microscopy and particle tracking, revealing single-virus dynamics and enabling rapid screening.

The paper shows that Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons use proximity to a bifurcation point to efficiently encode temporal and intensity information from odor signals.

The paper shows E. coli chemosensing is limited by internal noise, not physical molecule diffusion limits, using information rate analysis.

This study shows how E. coli populations adjust sensory diversity based on environmental ligand prevalence by measuring kinase activity and using mathematical modeling.

This paper introduces a new model of E. coli chemosensory lattice signal processing called lattice ultrasensitivity, which achieves high gain without requiring fine-tuning.

The paper shows bacterial populations adapt to environments through collective migration by enriching high-performing phenotypes without genetic changes or gene regulation.

This study shows Drosophila use odor motion direction, detected via antennae signal correlations, to navigate odor plumes, similar to visual motion detection.

This study shows that Drosophila use both odor encounter frequency and intermittency to navigate turbulent plumes, with robust performance requiring both features but facing a tradeoff when used together.

This study shows that walking Drosophila use biased random walks within odor plumes, guided by the timing of odor encounters rather than reflexive behaviors.

The paper shows that Weber-Fechner gain scaling in Drosophila ORNs improves odor identity coding under varying intensity and mixing conditions.

The paper introduces methods to deliver and calibrate dynamic odorant stimuli in the lab, improving the accuracy of olfactory research.

The paper uses single-cell FRET measurements in E. coli to show signaling variability across and within cells, attributing it to stochastic enzyme activities and receptor-kinase dynamics.