Kyobi Skutt-Kakaria

The paper reconstructs and analyzes the female Drosophila ventral nerve cord connectome, identifying neural circuits that coordinate wings and legs during escape takeoff.

The paper analyzes premotor circuits in Drosophila to compare leg and wing motor control networks, finding modular organization and differences in synaptic connectivity.

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.

This study investigates behavioral variation within a genotype in Drosophila, finding sparse correlations between behaviors and showing that gene expression can predict positions on some behavior axes.

The paper shows that individual locomotor behavior in flies changes with ambient light, mediated by central complex output neurons with idiosyncratic responses.

The paper shows that ring attractor dynamics in the fly's ellipsoid body emerge from a spiking model of the protocerebral bridge circuit.