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| Reward amine also orchestrates locomotion in the fruit fly |
| Two days from now, our paper on octopamine and flight performance will appear in the Journal of Neuroscience. You can get the PDF file already today from here. Very soon, I'll also have an HTML version ready with all the...[more] |
| Drosophila flight octopamine biogenic amine neuroscience reward |
| Posted on Monday 08 October 2007 - 09:21:09 |
| In 45 minutes: plasticity in simple taxis behaviors at SfN |
| We're about to head off to McCormick convention center her ein Chicago to set up our poster this morning: Tue, Oct 20, 8:00 - 9:00 AM 580.13/GG39 - Mechanisms of plasticity in simple taxis behaviors in Drosophila Remember...[more] |
| drosophila sfn meeting phototaxis |
| Posted on Tuesday 20 October 2009 - 14:15:48 |
| SCIENCE: spontaneous behavior |
| With all the discussion raging in the blogosphere (see, e.g., slashdot, coturnix, evolution denialism, the futile circle, Nature, etc.), I think I should take one post to emphasize the scientific aspect of our work and ...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 14:56:28 |
| complex learning in fruit flies |
| Sadiepete (not a scientist) asked me some questions after having read our recent paper on context and occasion setting in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). I sat down and answered some of them by email. I think it's...[more] |
| drosophila paper behavior learning context occasion setting mushroom-bodies |
| Posted on Thursday 26 October 2006 - 08:44:32 |
| Two awesome videos on fly neuroscience |
| The first one is a TED talk by Michael Dickinson on how flies fly: and the second one is on recording from fly visual neurons during flight and non-flight. This one was done in CalTech where Michael Dickinson used to work...[more] |
| drosophila flight neuroscience recording TED |
| Posted on Sunday 24 February 2013 - 16:14:19 |
| Octopamine paper in HTML and color |
| Our paper on octopamine and flight performance appeared today in the Journal of Neuroscience. In addition to the PDF file, you can now also get the paper in HTML format with all the figures in color. Both original versio...[more] |
| Drosophila flight octopamine biogenic amine neuroscience reward |
| Posted on Thursday 11 October 2007 - 18:53:41 |
| Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 1 |
| Finally a meeting with usable WiFi access! This is going to be a very fast-paced meeting with 10h days packed with 12min talks of unpublished data, each followed by 10-15min of discussion. This first day started with Alex...[more] |
| drosophila neurobiology meeting |
| Posted on Friday 11 December 2009 - 17:47:06 |
| We got slashdotted! |
It appears the media coverage our study on spontaneous fruit fly behavior (updated press release) made it to the cover not only of LiveScience, but also on /. I've replied to the story and there's already a link from one...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight slashdot |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 09:04:58 |
| Even in science, sometimes it really seems there is nothing new under the sun |
 In this week's journal club, we talked about an old paper from 1918! "The reactions to light and to gravity in Drosophila and its mutants" by Robert McEwen, in the Journal of Experimental Zoology.As the title says, the ...[more] |
| drosophila phototaxis attention decision-making behavior |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 February 2011 - 16:19:52 |
| that's the way science is |
| The headline says it all. You really need to be frustration tolerant in this business, even if there weren't any politics going on at the moment, to get all worked up about. So I've submitted this paper where I've blocked...[more] |
| Drosophila neuroscience transgenics behavior learning science brain |
| Posted on Friday 29 June 2007 - 17:33:04 |