A century ago, Cajal noted striking similarities between the neural circuits that underlie
vision in vertebrates and flies. Over the past few decades, structural and functional studies …

Motion vision provides essential cues for navigation and course control as well as for mate,
prey, or predator detection. Consequently, neurons responding to visual motion in a …

We describe the development and application of methods for high-throughput
neuroanatomy in Drosophila using light microscopy. These tools enable efficient multicolor …

Mapping neural circuits across defined synapses is essential for understanding brain
function. Here we describe trans-Tango, a technique for anterograde transsynaptic circuit …

The anatomy of many neural circuits is being characterized with increasing resolution, but
their molecular properties remain mostly unknown. Here, we characterize gene expression …

Transcription factors regulate the molecular, morphological, and physiological
characteristics of neurons and generate their impressive cell-type diversity. To gain insight …

Glia play crucial roles in the development and homeostasis of the nervous system. While the
GLIA in the Drosophila embryo have been well characterized, their study in the adult …

The algorithms and neural circuits that process spatio-temporal changes in luminance to
extract visual motion cues have been the focus of intense research. An influential model, the …

Neural circuit mapping is generating datasets of tens of thousands of labeled neurons. New
computational tools are needed to search and organize these data. We present NBLAST, a …

In the Drosophila optic lobes, the medulla processes visual information coming from inner
photoreceptors R7 and R8 and from lamina neurons. It contains approximately 40,000 …