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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 - 09:20:16 |
| 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 - 08:33:11 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 - 13:55:43 |
| 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 |
| SfN annual meeting |
 I'm currently sitting in meeting room 1B of the convention center in beautiful San Diego, California. I'm attending the annual meeting of the Society for Neurosience. This particular session is entitled "Voluntary moveme...[more] |
| meeting neuroscience San Diego flight drosophila |
| Posted on Monday 05 November 2007 - 16:30:04 |
| 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 - 09:38:35 |
| 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 - 08:56:28 |
| 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 - 03:04:58 |
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