Whether walking, running, slithering, or flying, organisms display a remarkable ability to
move through complex and uncertain environments. In particular, animals have evolved to …

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use multiple sensory modalities to hunt human hosts and
obtain a blood meal for egg production. Attractive cues include carbon dioxide (CO 2), a …

Flies fly by alternating between periods of fixation and body saccades, analogous to how our
own eyes move. Gaze fixation via smooth movement in fly flight has been studied …

Physical injury often impairs mobility, which can have dire consequences for survival in
animals. Revealing mechanisms of robust biological intelligence to prevent system failure …

Several fundamental aspects of motion vision circuitry are prevalent across flies and mice.
Both taxa segregate ON and OFF signals. For any given spatial pattern, motion detectors in …

Visual object tracking in animals as diverse as felines, frogs, and fish supports behaviors
including predation, predator avoidance, and landscape navigation. Decades of …

Animals use active sensing to respond to sensory inputs and guide future motor decisions.
In flight, flies generate a pattern of head and body movements to stabilize gaze. How the …

For walking, swimming, and flying animals, the optomotor response is essential to stabilize
gaze. How flexible is the optomotor response? Classic work in Drosophila has argued that …

Flies and other insects routinely land upside down on a ceiling. These inverted landing
maneuvers are among the most remarkable aerobatic feats, yet the full range of these …

Estimating the direction of ambient fluid flow is a crucial step during chemical plume tracking
for flying and swimming animals. How animals accomplish this remains an open area of …