Microfluidics for understanding model organisms

N Frey, UM Sönmez, J Minden, P LeDuc - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
New microfluidic systems for whole organism analysis and experimentation are catalyzing
biological breakthroughs across many fields, from human health to fundamental biology …

NeuroPAL: a multicolor atlas for whole-brain neuronal identification in C. elegans

E Yemini, A Lin, A Nejatbakhsh, E Varol, R Sun… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Comprehensively resolving neuronal identities in whole-brain images is a major challenge.
We achieve this in C. elegans by engineering a multicolor transgene called NeuroPAL (a …

Recent advances in investigating odor-taste interactions: Psychophysics, neuroscience, and microfluidic techniques

YP Chen, Z Ding, Y Yu, P He, Y Zhou, Y Liu… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background There is a limited understanding of odor-taste interactions at the molecular
levels about how these interactions influence flavor perception. Microfluidic technology used …

Circuits for integrating learned and innate valences in the insect brain

C Eschbach, A Fushiki, M Winding, B Afonso… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Animal behavior is shaped both by evolution and by individual experience. Parallel brain
pathways encode innate and learned valences of cues, but the way in which they are …

Internal state configures olfactory behavior and early sensory processing in Drosophila larvae

K Vogt, DM Zimmerman, M Schlichting… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Animals exhibit different behavioral responses to the same sensory cue depending on their
internal state at a given moment. How and where in the brain are sensory inputs combined …

Mapping odorant sensitivities reveals a sparse but structured representation of olfactory chemical space by sensory input to the mouse olfactory bulb

SD Burton, A Brown, TP Eiting, IA Youngstrom, TC Rust… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
In olfactory systems, convergence of sensory neurons onto glomeruli generates a map of
odorant receptor identity. How glomerular maps relate to sensory space remains unclear …

[HTML][HTML] Useful road maps: studying Drosophila larva's central nervous system with the help of connectomics

C Eschbach, M Zlatic - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Drosophila larva enables combining comprehensive synapse resolution
connectivity maps with cellular-resolution activity maps and behavior maps.•This approach …

Building population models for large-scale neural recordings: Opportunities and pitfalls

C Hurwitz, N Kudryashova, A Onken… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Modern recording technologies now enable simultaneous recording from large numbers of
neurons. This has driven the development of new statistical models for analyzing and …

Fly Me to the Micron: Microtechnologies for Drosophila Research

UM Sonmez, N Frey, PR LeDuc… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Multicellular model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), are frequently
used in a myriad of biological research studies due to their biological significance and …

An optofluidic platform for interrogating chemosensory behavior and brainwide neural representation in larval zebrafish

SKH Sy, DCW Chan, RCH Chan, J Lyu, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Studying chemosensory processing desires precise chemical cue presentation, behavioral
response monitoring, and large-scale neuronal activity recording. Here we present Fish-on …