Kathrin Steck

The paper identifies new female fecundity factors required for sperm sex peptide binding by analyzing the impact of Abdominal-B loss in Drosophila secondary cells on seminal fluid composition and female response.

The paper identifies a competitive disinhibitory network in Drosophila that enhances rotational optic flow processing for navigation.

The paper develops and validates optoPAD, a closed-loop optogenetics system to study how taste neurons influence feeding behavior in flies.

The paper identifies a molecular basis for carbonation detection using Drosophila IRs, showing that Ir56d, along with co-receptors, is essential for carbonation and fatty acid sensing.

The paper identifies yeast taste neurons in Drosophila that mediate yeast feeding and shows how internal amino acid states modulate these neurons to support protein homeostasis.