Ben Cocanougher

The paper identifies severe NFIX missense variants causing a subtype of Malan syndrome with progressive musculoskeletal issues and shows variant-specific DNA-binding disruptions.

LarvaTagger combines a pre-trained deep neural network with a GUI for manual tagging and training new automatic taggers using updated ground truth.

The paper introduces statistical methods to detect subtle behavioural changes in Drosophila larvae from large-scale behavioural assays.

The paper maps convergence neurons in Drosophila that integrate innate and learned olfactory drives to mediate action selection.

The paper creates a comprehensive atlas of the Drosophila larval nervous system using single-cell transcriptomics and validates findings with RNA-FISH, revealing gene expression changes linked to behavioral states.