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| Fruit flies fly optimal flights |
| There is plenty of evidence that most animals have evolved optimal or near-optimal strategies when foraging. Birds and mammals cover huge areas in their foraging trips and do so by local searches combined with long-dista...[more] |
| drosophila flight behavior optimal search search |
| Posted on Wednesday 11 April 2007 - 15:20:16 |
| ...and now for some tethered flight |
| Two awesome videos showing tethered Drosophila flight: ...[more] |
| drosophila flight tethered flight video |
| Posted on Friday 30 September 2011 - 11:31:09 |
| Journal of Neurosience accepts our manuscript |
| Our work on the biogenic amine octopamine influencing the initiation and maintenance of flight in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster was accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience last week. This study is a collaboration...[more] |
| octopamine flight biogenic amine drosophila neuroscience |
| Posted on Monday 20 August 2007 - 14:33:11 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Live blogging from Friday Harbor Labs |
| I'm currently sitting in a lecture room at Friday Harbor Laboratories, near Seattle in Washington, USA. I'm attending the Gastropod Neuroscience meeting organized by Paul Katz. I'll try to write a short blog for every le...[more] |
| gastropod neuroscience meeting flight Friday Harbor |
| Posted on Wednesday 06 June 2007 - 19:55:43 |
| Are we incentivizing hype in science? A case study |
 Now also cross-posted at homolog.us (and slightly edited here to remove any potentially misleading, unintentional implications). There is a lively discussion going on right now in various forums on the ...[more] |
| drosophila octopamine flight choice publishing journal rank impact factor |
| Posted on Friday 25 January 2013 - 13:20:40 |
| Fruit fly spontaneity blogroll |
| In total, over 40 blogs have covered our work on spontaneous behavior in flies, some with very long and scholarly discussions and comments. Most of the blogs paid very close attention to what we wrote and how we worded i...[more] |
| drosophila free will flight spontaneous behavior blogroll |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 08:51:53 |
| SPECULATION: free will?? WTF? |
| Of course, our original study makes no mention of free will, it is not a scientific concept. However, the discovery of spontaneity even in flies makes us ponder what, if anything, this might entail for our subjective exp...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 15:38:35 |
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