Dominic D. Frank

This study investigates spontaneous neural activity in developing ant olfactory sensory neurons and finds stage-dependent patterns similar to mammals.

The paper generates a reference brain for the clonal raider ant using confocal microscopy and 3D registration, revealing interindividual brain variability despite genetic and age homogeneity.

FERAL is a video-understanding system that maps raw video directly to behavioral labels, outperforming existing methods across species and conditions with less training data.

This study examines how odor coding in the antennal lobe of ants changes with age, finding that alarm pheromone responses in specific glomeruli increase while general odorant responses decrease.

This study shows that ON transients in Drosophila thermosensory neurons track temperature change rates to anticipate and respond to dangerous thermal conditions.

The paper shows that ants use a single glomerulus to encode alarm pheromones, indicating stereotyped and narrow tuning for these signals.