Shigehiro Namiki

This study shows that ants use internal states to modulate beacon-aiming behavior in response to past, imminent, and predicted adverse substrate conditions.

The paper updates a catalogue of split-GAL4 driver lines for descending neurons in Drosophila melanogaster by adding new cell types and driver lines.

The paper describes a collection of split-GAL4 driver lines for targeting specific neuron types in Drosophila, enabling functional and molecular studies.

The paper provides a connectomic description of ascending and descending neurons in the Drosophila nervous system, revealing sexual dimorphism and motor-related circuits.

1328 descending and 733 motor neurons of the male Drosophila nerve cord connectome were curated; direct links between them are infrequent, and intrinsic-neuron communities route control per motor system.

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.

The paper provides a searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4-driver expression patterns at single neuron resolution to improve cell type identification and split-GAL4 combination prediction.

The paper develops a high-performance simulator for a biophysically detailed whole-brain Drosophila model using multi-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley neurons, achieving near real-time simulation on a supercomputer.

The paper identifies a population of descending neurons in Drosophila that regulate wingbeat amplitude through a population code during flight.

Geosmin avoidance in Drosophila runs from a labelled line at the periphery into a distributed central representation spanning 80 third-order cell types, then into specific descending neurons.

The paper provides a systematic nomenclature for the Drosophila ventral nervous system, extending an existing framework to include thoracic and abdominal neuromeres.

This study shows that walking speed modulates freeze/flee decisions in Drosophila melanogaster and identifies P9 descending neurons as critical for freezing behavior.

This study uses optogenetics to analyze how descending neurons in Drosophila influence behavior by mapping behavioral responses to neuronal activation.

The paper maps descending sensory-motor pathways in Drosophila by creating transgenic lines and analyzing connectivity between brain and ventral nerve cord neuropils.

The paper examines descending neurons in the silkmoth Bombyx mori brain, identifying their connections to the lateral accessory lobe and posterior slope, and their role in pheromone orientation.