Animals are able to move and react in manifold ways to external stimuli. Thus,
environmental stimuli need to be detected, information must be processed, and, finally, an …

How are functional neural circuits formed during development? Despite recent advances in
our understanding of the development of individual neurons, little is known about how …

Identifying the proteins synthesized at specific times in cells of interest in an animal will
facilitate the study of cellular functions and dynamic processes. Here we introduce stochastic …

Neural circuits for behavior transform sensory inputs into motor outputs in patterns with
strategic value. Determining how neurons along a sensorimotor circuit contribute to this …

To better understand how organisms make decisions on the basis of temporally varying
multi-sensory input, we identified computations made by Drosophila larvae responding to …

We designed a novel imaging technique based on frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) to
obtain high resolution and high contrast movies. This F TIR-based I maging M ethod (FIM) is …

Animal development is coupled with innate behaviors that maximize chances of survival.
Here, we show that the prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), a neuropeptide that controls the …

The avoidance of light by fly larvae is a classic paradigm for sensorimotor behavior. Here,
we use behavioral assays and video microscopy to quantify the sensorimotor structure of …

Genetic engineering of natural light-gated ion channels has proven a powerful way to
generate optogenetic tools for a wide variety of applications. In recent years, blue-light …

Aggregation is a common behavior by which groups of organisms arrange into cohesive
groups. Whether suspended in the air (like honey bee clusters), built on the ground (such as …