Abdulselam Adill Mohammed

01-Neuroscience

Visual circuits and behavior

Most of what I read here is around Drosophila vision, navigation, and the relation between circuit structure and behavior. I keep coming back to T3 and lobula columnar neurons like LC11 and LC17, and to LCs more broadly, because they seem like a good place to look for clues about how the fly brain computes figure-ground separation.

02-Papers

Mice

  1. Paper 1

    Leib, D. E., Zimmerman, C. A., Poormoghaddam, A., Huey, E. L., Ahn, J. S., Lin, Y. C., Tan, C. L., Chen, Y., & Knight, Z. A. (2017). The forebrain thirst circuit drives drinking through negative reinforcement. Neuron, 96(6), 1272-1281.e4.

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  2. Paper 2

    Zhu, Y., Nachtrab, G., Keyes, P. C., Allen, W. E., Luo, L., & Chen, X. (2018). Dynamic salience processing in paraventricular thalamus gates associative learning. Science, 362(6413), 423-429.

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  3. Paper 3

    Bagot, R. C., Parise, E. M., Pena, C. J., Zhang, H. X., Maze, I., Chaudhury, D., Persaud, B., Cachope, R., Bolanos-Guzman, C. A., Cheer, J. F., Deisseroth, K., Han, M. H., & Nestler, E. J. (2015). Ventral hippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens regulate susceptibility to depression. Nature Communications, 6, 7062.

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  4. Paper 4

    Markowitz, J. E., Gillis, W. F., Jay, M., Wood, J., Harris, R. W., Cieszkowski, R., Scott, R., Brann, D., Koveal, D., Kula, T., Weinreb, C., Osman, M. A. M., Pinto, S. R., Uchida, N., Linderman, S. W., Sabatini, B. L., & Datta, S. R. (2023). Spontaneous behaviour is structured by reinforcement without explicit reward. Nature, 614(7946), 108-117.

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03-Papers

Drosophila vision

  1. Paper 1

    Bahl, A., Ammer, G., Schilling, T., & Borst, A. (2013). Object tracking in motion-blind flies. Nature Neuroscience, 16(6), 730-738.

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  2. Paper 2

    Borst, A., Haag, J., & Mauss, A. S. (2020). How fly neurons compute the direction of visual motion. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 206(2), 109-124.

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  3. Paper 3

    Klapoetke, N. C., Nern, A., Rogers, E. M., Rubin, G. M., Reiser, M. B., & Card, G. M. (2022). A functionally ordered visual feature map in the Drosophila brain. Neuron, 110(10), 1700-1711.e6.

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  4. Paper 4

    Hindmarsh Sten, T., Li, R., Otopalik, A., et al. (2021). Sexual arousal gates visual processing during Drosophila courtship. Nature, 595, 549-553.

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  5. Paper 5

    Frighetto, G., & Frye, M. A. (2023). Columnar neurons support saccadic bar tracking in Drosophila. eLife, 12, e83656.

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  6. Paper 6

    McKinney, R. M., Monroy Hernandez, C., & Ben-Shahar, Y. (2026). Visual recognition of the anteroposterior female body axis drives spatial elements of male courtship in Drosophila. G3 (Bethesda, Md.), jkag037. Advance online publication.

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  7. Paper 7

    Fenk, L. M., Avritzer, S. C., Weisman, J. L., Nair, A., Randt, L. D., Mohren, T. L., Siwanowicz, I., & Maimon, G. (2022). Muscles that move the retina augment compound eye vision in Drosophila. Nature, 612(7938), 116-122.

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  8. Paper 8

    Ribeiro, I. M. A., Chen, W.-Q., Drummond, N., Sauter, M., Prech, S., & Borst, A. (2026). A multi-input optic glomerulus mediates opposing behavioral responses to visual objects [Preprint]. bioRxiv.

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04-Papers

Drosophila navigation

  1. Paper 1

    Franconville, R., Beron, C., & Jayaraman, V. (2018). Building a functional connectome of the Drosophila central complex. eLife, 7, e37017.

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  2. Paper 2

    Honkanen, A., Adden, A., da Silva Freitas, J., & Heinze, S. (2019). The insect central complex and the neural basis of navigational strategies. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(Pt Suppl 1), jeb188854.

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  3. Paper 3

    Lyu, C., Abbott, L. F., & Maimon, G. (2022). Building an allocentric travelling direction signal via vector computation. Nature, 601(7891), 92-97.

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  4. Paper 4

    Wilson, R. I. (2023). Neural Networks for Navigation: From Connections to Computations. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 46, 403-423.

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  5. Paper 5

    Siliciano, A. F., Minni, S., Morton, C., Dowell, C. K., Eghbali, N. B., Rhee, J. Y., Abbott, L. F., & Ruta, V. (2025). A vector-based strategy for olfactory navigation in Drosophila. bioRxiv, 2025.02.15.638426.

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  6. Paper 6

    Kathman, N. D., Lanz, A. J., Freed, J. D., & Nagel, K. I. (2025). Neural dynamics for working memory and evidence integration during olfactory navigation in Drosophila. bioRxiv, 2024.10.05.616803.

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  7. Paper 7

    Flores-Valle, A., Honnef, R., & Seelig, J. D. (2025). Goal learning, memory, and drift in the Drosophila head direction system [Preprint]. bioRxiv.

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  8. Paper 8

    Weisman, J. L., Mohren, T. L., Ryu, J. D., Wyse, M. Z., Dias-Ferreira, E., & Maimon, G. (2025). Drosophila maintain a consistent navigational goal angle for days to weeks. bioRxiv, 2025.12.09.693277.

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  9. Paper 9

    Flores-Valle, A., Vishniakou, I., & Seelig, J. D. (2025). Dynamics of glia and neurons regulate homeostatic rest, sleep and feeding behavior in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience, 28(6), 1226-1240.

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05-Papers

Drosophila other

  1. Paper 1

    Shukla, A. K., Pragya, P., Chaouhan, H. S., Tiwari, A. K., Patel, D. K., Abdin, M. Z., & Chowdhuri, D. K. (2014). Heat shock protein-70 (Hsp-70) suppresses paraquat-induced neurodegeneration by inhibiting JNK and caspase-3 activation in Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease. PLOS ONE, 9(6), e98886.

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  2. Paper 2

    Valdes-Aleman, J., Fetter, R. D., Sales, E. C., Heckman, E. L., Venkatasubramanian, L., Doe, C. Q., Landgraf, M., Cardona, A., & Zlatic, M. (2021). Comparative Connectomics Reveals How Partner Identity, Location, and Activity Specify Synaptic Connectivity in Drosophila. Neuron, 109(1), 105-122.e7.

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  3. Paper 3

    Jalloh, B., Lancaster, C. L., Rounds, J. C., Brown, B. E., Leung, S. W., Banerjee, A., Morton, D. J., Bienkowski, R. S., Fasken, M. B., Kremsky, I. J., Tegowski, M., Meyer, K., Corbett, A., & Moberg, K. (2023). The Drosophila Nab2 RNA binding protein inhibits m6A methylation and male-specific splicing of Sex lethal transcript in female neuronal tissue. eLife, 12, e64904.

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06-Papers

Drosophila suzukii

  1. Paper 1

    Yan, Y., Zhao, J., Schwirz, J., Borghesi, C., Liu, C., Liu, B., Qian, W., Wan, F., & Schetelig, M. F. (2025). The transformer gene controls sexual development in Drosophila suzukii. Insect Science, 10.1111/1744-7917.70031. Advance online publication.

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07-Papers

General biology

  1. Paper 1

    Zong, X., Zhao, J., Wang, H., Lu, Z., Wang, F., Du, H., & Wang, Y. (2019). Mettl3 Deficiency Sustains Long-Chain Fatty Acid Absorption through Suppressing Traf6-Dependent Inflammation Response. Journal of Immunology, 202(2), 567-578.

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  2. Paper 2

    Li, N., Hu, J., Zhao, Y., Tian, J., Li, Q., & Zhang, L. (2025). Single-cell RNA sequencing across diverse cell types to identify PFOA-induced ovarian cellular senescence. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 304, 119089.

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08-Papers

General neuroscience

  1. Paper 1

    McNaughton, N., & Corr, P. J. (2004). A two-dimensional neuropsychology of defense: fear/anxiety and defensive distance. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28(3), 285-305.

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