New paper from Brandon Pratt, @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social, and colleagues on how hair plate proprioceptors sense joint limits and contribute to sensorimotor control of walking.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So grateful for this even if the reward prediction error had almost gone extinct (look at my happysad face). Thank you John and everyone who supported my proposal, Nino Ramirez, @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @darbly.bsky.social, Rui Chang, and the NIH reviewers and program officers!
fly circuit diagram
When a fly lands on your arm, how does your nervous system decide where to swat?
By reconstructing tactile axons in a Drosophila connectome, we found a leg somatotopic map and downstream circuits that sample the map to initiate targeted grooming
Led by Leila Elabbady, PhD
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Bradley Dickerson reflects on how a 1940s paper on fly neuroanatomy shaped his scientific ambitions.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
Happy to share work I contributed to during my time in the Murthy lab!
now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🎉🥳
www.cell.com/current-biol...
This is who runs this account
How does the brain control locomotion? In our new preprint, we uncover a brain circuit in Drosophila that controls forward walking independently of turning. This dedicated locomotor circuit enables flexible motor control and might reflect a shared principle across species. doi.org/10.64898/202...
How do neural circuits generate the walking rhythm?
Using connectome simulations, @sarahpugly.bsky.social found a minimal central pattern generator (CPG) that produces oscillations in leg motor neurons. Same circuit motif for each 🪰 leg.
w @bingbrunton.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@princetonneuro.bsky.social first-years out in full force!🐯🧠 #sfn25
My thesis work is out! 🪰
We often link pain to mammals—sometimes exclusively humans—but what about flies?
Thanks to @tuthill.bsky.social for supporting a funky, fun project, and to @NIH & @hhmi.org for funding over the past half decade!
Do flies feel pain?
Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.
🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We had a nice CS & Behavioral Neurosci student workshop yesterday given by @alleninstitute.org scientists and @wwu.edu alums! Thanks to @sejdevries.bsky.social and Su-Yee and Feng for organizing
Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.
The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!
Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
