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Neuroscience

Research and computational analysis of neural circuits and behavioral data.

Research Interests

behavioral neurosciencevisual circuits in drosophilanavigation systemsfigure-ground separation

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Franconville, R., Beron, C., & Jayaraman, V. (2018). Building a functional connectome of the Drosophila central complex. eLife, 7, e37017.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wilson, R. I. (2023). Neural Networks for Navigation: From Connections to Computations. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 46, 403-423.
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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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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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