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Inês Ribeiro

Max Planck Institute for Biological IntelligenceORCID 0000-0002-7480-6918Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:Drosophila· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1

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Alexander BorstiD· 3 shared Eleni SamaraiD· 1 shared Juergen HaagiD· 1 shared Maria-Bianca Leonte· 1 shared Michael Sauter· 1 shared Nikolas DrummondiD· 1 shared Romina Kutlesa· 1 shared Stefan PrechiD· 1 shared

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A multi-input optic glomerulus mediates opposing behavioral responses to visual objects

Inês Ribeiro, Wei-Qi Chen, Nikolas Drummond, Michael Sauter, Stefan Prech, Alexander Borst

The paper shows that two similar neuron types in Drosophila mediate opposing behavioral responses to visual objects by chunking the visual field into zones.

bioRxiv · Aug 3, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Columnar cholinergic neurotransmission onto T5 cells of Drosophila

Eleni Samara, Tabea Schilling, Inês Ribeiro, Juergen Haag, Maria-Bianca Leonte, Alexander Borst

The paper identifies specific nicotinic and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in Drosophila T5 cells and shows their differential roles in direction selectivity during motion detection.

Current Biology · Feb 27, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Spatial and temporal control of expression with light-gated LOV-LexA

Inês Ribeiro, Wolfgang Eßbauer, Romina Kutlesa, Alexander Borst

This paper introduces LOV-LexA, a light-gated system for spatial and temporal control of gene expression in fruit flies, enabling precise targeting of specific cell subsets.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Jul 25, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetics