Thrilled to present our recent paper, just published in Nature Communications. In this work, we unveil a novel facet of #presynaptic_inhibition in the realm of #movement_control. (1/n) 🔗Full paper available here: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

1/ 🤖 New paper hot off the press 🐜 Automated behavioural analysis using machine learning is great, but still needs lots of effort to curate training data. What if a computer could generate that data for you? Say hello to replicAnt nature.com/articles/s4146… #OpenSource

Very happy to see this out - Ansgar Bueschges Lab and I wrote down our take on the processing of (multimodal) proprioceptive signals in distributed #insect networks, the #review is out now in Journal of Experimental Biology! #proprioception #motorcontrol #VNC journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

🎁 Neuroscientists are getting a special gift to kick off the new year: access to a 'greatest hits' collection of tools to study the fly brain generated by Janelia’s FlyLight Project Team & collaborators over the past decade. 🦟 🔗janelia.org/news/janelia-s…

I am thrilled to share our new work from the Ole Kiehn investigating how the basal ganglia control locomotion, now out in Nature Neuroscience 1/8 nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are one week away from #BrainAwarenessWeek Dana Foundation🧠 CEN has prepared two fantastic events in the UK and Germany to celebrate and promote public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. 🗓️Würzburg 13th March 🗓️Bristol 15th & 16th March Stay tuned! 👇

NeuronBridge has been updated with new matches to 35059 additional split-gal4 images from recent publications, including FlyLight's recent split-gal4 driver resource. neuronbridge.janelia.org

What a fun event to celebrate #BrainAwarenessWeek! Jan M Ache and I had a great time discussing how neural circuits control movement and what we can learn from #Drosophila. Thanks for organizing CEN DefenseCircuitsLab!

Our collaboration with Google DeepMind has borne fruit! Or rather, a fruit fly 🪰🙂 Simulated with #MuJoCo physics, trained with imitation learning, capable of realistic locomotion, both on the ground and in the air. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110… github.com/TuragaLab/flyb…

New paper, hot off the press 🥳! Larger animals have longer limbs and are stronger-so why are the fastest runners of intermediate size? It's all to do with physical constraints on muscle, the prime mover. Collab w/ Christofer Clemente, Taylor Dick and P Bishop. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Very happy to finally announce this new connectome dataset that @mindyisminsu and I generated. At long last, we are closing in on having a complete map of all the neurons and synaptic connections in adult Drosophila. Now we need the community (you!) to help finish the connectome!

In our latest preprint, we use connectomics to uncover that the FeCO, the largest somatosensory organ in the fly leg, is not only proprioceptive, but also has a subset of sensory neurons that are dedicated to sensing external substrate vibrations as well: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am excited to share that our preprint “Nutritional state-dependent modulation of Insulin-Producing Cells in Drosophila” is now available on BioRxiv. A thread🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This one is very close to my heart, proudly sharing our newest preprint “Comparative connectomics of the descending and ascending neurons of the Drosophila nervous system: stereotypy and sexual dimorphism”. A short summary of this project that was 4 years in the making:

Excited to present my #MSCA project with Jan M Ache at #icn2024berlin @neuroethology! If you're interested in motor control, come chat with me at poster PS1.131 (Mon, July 29).

Will robots and AI replace scientists? No, our goal is to create robots and ML algorithm that free scientists from labor work to focus on more impactful tasks. The recent publication on the 2nd-gen fly robot from the Schnitzer lab demonstrates our vision. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Connectomes, connectomes, connectomes: Mert Erginkaya and I wrote a Current Biology dispatch about the FANC fly VNC connectome papers from the @casa_tuthill and Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social labs in nature, and discuss how connectomes change the way we analyze circuits for behavior. Link below ⬇️

Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today

Excited to present my Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 #MSCA project with Jan M Ache at the German Neuroscience Society - NWG meeting in Göttingen. If you're interested in how brain circuits control locomotion, come chat with me at poster T23-6C on Friday. #NWG2025 #Drosophila