Tag: <span>mushroom body</span>
We mapped the full adult fly brain!
by Yijie Yin Another milestone in Fly Connectomics has been achieved! We are happy and *deeply* honoured to have contributed significantly to the mapping and annotation of the first synapse-resolution, full brain connectome of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (‘Full Adult Fly Brain’, FAFB dataset1). The adult fruit fly is […]
Hey DAN, why you gotta be so different?
by Georgia Dempsey To find food and avoid danger in changing environments, animals benefit from learning to associate certain cues, such as odours, with pleasant or unpleasant experiences. Memories can be of positive or negative valence, reinforced by either rewarding or punitive stimuli. For example, the work of Pavlov demonstrated […]