Samuel C. Whitehead

This paper shows that indirect steering muscles in Drosophila help stabilize flight by adjusting wing pitch during large perturbations, using a nonlinear control strategy.

This paper investigates how fruit flies achieve roll stability during flight by analyzing wing kinematics and neuromuscular control mechanisms.

This study investigates how metabolic state and taste value influence exploration-exploitation trade-offs in Drosophila using a novel foraging assay.

The paper identifies 196 cell types in the Drosophila ventral nerve cord using split-GAL4 and links them to a connectomic dataset for circuit analysis.

This study identifies Drosophila Piezo as a mechanosensory receptor that controls meal size by detecting gut distension, with Piezo neuron activation reducing appetite and knockout increasing food intake.

The paper shows that inactivating motor cortex in mice reduces the speed of kinematic primitives during a reach task without affecting their direction or complexity.