Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

The paper identifies E. coli metabolic mutants that affect C. elegans foraging behavior and shows how serotonin and dopamine signaling modulates responses to different diets.

This study quantifies the release kinetics of diuretic and anti-diuretic neuropeptides in female Aedes aegypti post-bloodmeal to understand their role in regulating urine secretion.

DANCE is an open-source platform with low-cost hardware and machine learning classifiers to quantify aggression and courtship in Drosophila, outperforming expensive alternatives.

The paper uses a novel network embedding method to infer community structures in Drosophila multisensory pathways, revealing distinct neural groups and their roles in sensory integration.

This study identifies a mechanism by which octopamine modulates memory expression in Drosophila by prioritizing recent over long-term memories through specific neural circuits.

This study shows that neuronal fatty acid oxidation in Drosophila mushroom bodies is essential for memory formation after intensive training.

The paper introduces iDOC, a platform for single-fly olfactory conditioning and memory assessment, showing spaced training promotes sleep while massed training induces anesthesia-resistant memory.

The paper identifies centralized neural circuits in Drosophila that coordinate body part movements during grooming, showing synchronization without sensory feedback.

This study shows that confinement stress in Drosophila suppresses male courtship through dopamine-dependent neuroplasticity, with dopamine signaling essential for the lasting behavioral effects.

The paper analyzes neural network architectures in male and hermaphrodite C. elegans to identify how sexual-specific neurons influence dimorphic behaviors.

The study corrects a previous claim that sev-Gal4 expresses in specific larval neurons by showing that reporter expression occurs independently of Gal4 driver.

The paper identifies a single neural circuit in Drosophila that coordinates context-dependent multimodal signaling by integrating sensory cues, internal state, and behavior.

This paper introduces a sparse driver system for cell-type specific single-cell labeling and manipulation in Drosophila, enabling tunable sparsity and multi-color staining.

This study identifies a novel leg muscle activation pattern in freezing Drosophila that prepares the animal for movement and is modulated by external cues.

The paper shows Dilp8 promotes developmental stability in Drosophila by inducing oscillatory activity in PIL/GCL neurons through Lgr3 signaling and Cyclin A.

This paper uses an anatomically constrained model to show that the bilateral structure of the insect brain can implicitly encode higher-order visual features used in navigation, without requiring explicit computation.

This study shows that sociability in Drosophila is learned through associative circuits in the mushroom body, which modulate social valence and drive sociable responses.

This study investigates how transcriptional regulation of neuropeptide receptors influences context-dependent behavioral and physiological responses across species.

This study uses humidity control and imaging to analyze structural changes in Drosophila hygrosensilla, revealing chamber-specific adaptations linked to humidity sensing.

The paper investigates target-selective descending neurons in dragonflies during prey interception flight, finding they stabilize prey on the eye rather than directly controlling steering.

This study identifies Drospondin, a Drosophila homolog of mammalian Reelin, showing it is essential for nervous system development and function.

The paper introduces Fly Disco, a system for video collection, optogenetic manipulation, and behavioral analysis of fruit flies, along with a dataset for pose estimation.

This study shows that dArc genes in Drosophila melanogaster regulate sugar reward valuation through capsid-mediated intercellular communication, affecting associative learning and reward valuation.

This study shows that neurons detect harmful food sources and trigger systemic digestive shutdown to avoid harm.

The paper constructs a neural network model for the fruit fly head direction system that aligns with connectome-derived architecture and enables continuous head-direction representation.

The paper shows that different serotonergic neurons in Drosophila regulate appetite for sucrose and hunger for proteins through distinct mechanisms involving the serotonin transporter and insulin receptor.

This study shows that degeneration of a mechanosensory circuit in C. elegans impairs developmental synchronization of behavior, which can be restored by neuroprotection.

The paper investigates how neuronal activity in the fruit fly's central complex integrates heading and goal directions to guide steering behavior.

The paper identifies a convergent node in male Drosophila olfactory circuits that regulates courtship behavior using the ds-Tango tool.

This study identifies a male-specific sNPF-sNPF-R neuron-glia circuit in Drosophila that regulates mating duration through energy balance by encoding sexual experience-related information.