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drosophila
| Fruit fly attention |
| I've been blogging about my good friend Bruno van Swinderen and his work a couple of times now. Therefore I'm especially pleased to be able to cover his recent publication in the prestigious journal Science. As is often ...[more] |
| drosophila attention |
| Posted on Thursday 12 April 2007 - 09:37:12 |
| 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 - 03:21:09 |
| Fantastic Drosophila pics |
I just stumbled across this great site with many awesome pictures of the fruit fly Drosophila. It is by photographer James Waters at Arizona State University and it is full with Drosophila closeups like this one: ...[more] |
| Drosophila pictures fun |
| Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2008 - 12:43:24 |
| 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 - 09:20:16 |
| 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 - 12:53:41 |
| Flies are creatures of habit, too |
| My latest paper has appeared a few days ago at Current Biology, with the title "Mushroom-bodies regulate habit formation in Drosophila". In it I describe experiments which I interpret as showing habit formation in fruit ...[more] |
| Drosophila operant habit habit formation |
| Posted on Wednesday 08 July 2009 - 14:59:05 |
| Media buzzed on fruit fly science |
| In the past two weeks, there have been three hot papers on the fruit fly Drosophila which have generated quite some buzz in the media. One dealt with imaging brain activity for long stretches of time, another focused on ...[more] |
| drosophila science media |
| Posted on Wednesday 11 April 2007 - 02:52:26 |
| ... and now for our latest fruit fly flight simulator video |
| Originally, it was planned to release our latest video on the Drosophila flight simulator with an article I wrote for the website of BBC radio show "The Naked Scientists". However, I now was invited to contribute to the ...[more] |
| Drosophila flight simulator video fun flight science |
| Posted on Sunday 08 June 2008 - 17:05:30 |
| 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 - 02:51:53 |
| 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 - 02:44:32 |
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