Neurobiology of Flight Control

New preprint! 🪰 We explore how flies make rapid evasive turns during flight. Our study on DNp03, a neuron linking visual input to motor output, offers insights into how the fly brain initiates this important behavior. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #Neuroscience #Drosophila

📢Extended deadline 15th November 2023! Join our IMPRS for Brain & Behavior to pursue a fully-funded #PhD in #neuroethology - the study of neural basis of animal behavior. 📷imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de #neuroscience #AcademicTwitter #phdposition

Paper out!!! #Drosophila has muscles that attach to their retinas, which it uses to move its photoreceptor sheet in ways that resemble vertebrate eye movements @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

More evidence that processing of sensory information is likely to be tuned to behavioral context: New @iScience_CP paper now out by our @SchnellLab on how multiple mechanisms mediate the suppression of motion vision during escape maneuvers in drosophila. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

The work focuses on investigating the neural mechanisms underlying flight control in Drosophila, with a focus on descending neurons.

Also, please share - we got a PostDoc position available in beautiful majestic Bonn, for work with beautiful majestic flies, with a beautiful majestic two-photon microscope. jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/e93…

First paper from the lab just got published! cell.com/iscience/fullt… I heard @PhilippeFische6 is on parental leave, so he has a bunch of free time to answer questions??

Congratulations to our group leader @SchnellLab who has been awarded a @ERC_Research Starting Grant to find out how even the tiny brains of fruit flies make decisions. We are looking forward to more fascinating Drosophila data! mpinb.mpg.de/en/research-gr…

📢REGISTRATION NOW OPEN📢 Register today for the #WireUp2020 @maxplanckphdnet symposium @caesarbonn Find the online form here: caesar.de/en/events/wire… Submit your #Abstract and present your #neuroscience #Research in Bonn this May! Looking forward to see many of you 😎

📢PAPER ALERT📢 Our PhD student @scidanm and our co-speaker Heinz Beck have a paper to share! Together with first author @BraganzaOliver and co-author @tonykellyEU, they explain how "quantitative properties of a feedback circuit predict frequency-dependent pattern separation".