Ibrahim Tastekin

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.

This paper maps the complete Drosophila male gustatory system connectome, revealing GRN diversity and sensory-to-motor pathways for feeding and social behaviors.

The paper identifies a feed-forward swallowing circuit in Drosophila that links protein deprivation to prolonged feeding bursts by coordinating swallowing motor neurons through a Sustain neuron.

The paper identifies leaky Chrimson expression as a source of false-positive signals in optogenetic functional connectivity experiments and proposes a control to mitigate this issue.

This study identifies a neuronal population in Drosophila that integrates nutritional state and food patch density to regulate foraging decisions.

The paper identifies marmite (mmt) as a conserved neuropeptide family mediating protein appetite and nutritional homeostasis across species.

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