Mala Murthy

The paper develops an unsupervised method to identify internal states from behavioral data and applies it to courtship behavior in Drosophila, revealing three latent states and their neural basis.

The paper identifies neurons in Drosophila that detect acoustic signals and drive sex-specific behaviors by linking auditory perception to behavioral responses.

The paper identifies a new song mode in Drosophila, revealing how sensory feedback and neural activity influence song production and perception.

The paper investigates fast variance adaptation in Drosophila JONs to improve sound encoding by correcting for background noise.