Ruairí J.V. Roberts

The paper presents the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system and compares it to the female connectome, identifying sex-specific and dimorphic neuronal types.

The paper identifies conserved head direction circuits in bees, ants, and flies, showing stability over 300 million years with evolvable synaptic differences.

The paper presents the first densely reconstructed adult fruit fly connectome integrating the brain and ventral nerve cord, revealing distributed control circuits involving local and long-range neural connections.

This study uses cross-species connectomics to show that olfactory circuits have conserved core elements and species-specific rewiring linked to ecological differences.

OptoPi is an open-source platform for small animal behaviour analysis with custom illumination and optogenetic stimulation, demonstrating tracking of zebrafish and Drosophila larvae.

The paper identifies a splicing program in neurons of Drosophila and mammals, showing how it evolves independently in different species to regulate ion channels and neuronal activity.

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 reconstructs the complete connectome of olfactory projection neurons in the Drosophila brain and identifies new connectivity patterns in olfactory circuits.

The paper identifies new thermosensory and hygrosensory glomeruli and neurons in the Drosophila brain using connectomics, revealing their connections to higher brain centers and circadian clock circuits.

The paper identifies two LH cell-types in Drosophila that are required for aversive memory retrieval and show that memory information is passed from the mushroom body to the lateral horn.

The paper generates split-GAL4 driver lines to map and functionally characterize 82 cell types in the Drosophila lateral horn, revealing connectivity with mushroom bodies and identifying cell types that influence behavior.