Active vision and higher brain function in Drosophila melanogaster

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• Gaby Maimon, Division of Biology, Caltech
• Monday 08 March 2010, 11:00-12:00
• MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Greg Jefferis.

Studying how arthropods, with tiny brains, produce sophisticated behaviors could reveal new principles of nervous system function. In this talk, I will discuss a simple vision-based algorithm used by flying fruit flies to guide steering decisions. I will also describe a new preparation that allows one to perform whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in behaving Drosophila. Initial results with this preparation demonstrate that sensory responses of fly visual neurons are strongly upregulated during flight, compared to non-flight. The ability to make detailed electrophysiological measurements in behaving Drosophila promises to help unify the understanding of behavior at the gene, cell, and circuit levels.

See also Gaby’s recent Nature Neuroscience article for details.

This talk is part of the MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars series.

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