David Tadres

The paper introduces a method to achieve unilateral gene expression in Drosophila by using maternal-to-zygotic transition machinery for somatic recombination during early development.

The paper shows that depolarization block silences olfactory neurons at high odor concentrations, enabling odor discrimination by creating distinct activity patterns.

The paper identifies leaky Chrimson expression as a source of false-positive signals in optogenetic functional connectivity experiments and proposes a control to mitigate this issue.

This study identifies odorant receptors in Drosophila that detect toxic mustard oils, showing that herbivorous relatives have expanded and adapted these receptors for hostplant recognition.

PiVR is a low-cost, high-speed closed-loop system for studying sensorimotor behaviors in unrestrained animals, demonstrating applications in chemotaxis and phototaxis.