An often-overlooked aspect of neural plasticity is the plasticity of neuronal composition, in
which the numbers of neurons of particular classes are altered in response to environment …

Most animals are endowed with an olfactory system that is essential for finding foods,
avoiding predators, and locating mating partners. The olfactory system must encode the …

The representation of contextual information peripheral to a salient stimulus is central to an
animal's ability to correctly interpret and flexibly respond to that stimulus. While the …

The development of the Drosophila olfactory system is a striking example of how genetic
programs specify a large number of different neuron types and assemble them into …

Search behaviour of the fruitfly in a choice between inaccessible targets, or 'figures',
depends on the spatial and temporal context of the visual input. An account of the attempted …

Genetic approaches in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, have led to a major triumph in
the field of sensory biology—the discovery of multiple large families of sensory receptors …

Chemotaxis is a powerful paradigm to investigate how nervous systems represent and
integrate changes in sensory signals to direct navigational decisions. In the Drosophila …

Because of the limited processing capacity of eyes, retinal networks must adapt constantly to
best present the ever changing visual world to the brain. However, we still know little about …

Understanding how sensory stimuli are processed in the brain to instruct appropriate
behavior is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Drosophila has become a powerful …

Afferent neurons commonly exhibit a somatotopic arrangement in the central nervous
system that organizes spatially discrete sensory input. We are interested in how that spatial …