Check out our latest paper using optogenetics to examine how flies use both the frequency and duration of encouters with odor in their navigational strategy! In the wild,...
We’re very excited to announce Lam won an NIH F31 fellowship to fund his graduate studies! Lam is interested in using traditional microbiology, microfluidics and...
Yale News has a nice article about our paper on odor motion detection in today’s issue. See also the cool video.
Congratulation Nirag, Mahmut and Brian for the publication in Nature of their discovery that flies can smell the motion of odor packets transported by the wind and use that...
Congratulations to Lam and Henry who were just recognized by the MCDB committee for Diversity and Professional Climate for their efforts to promote Diversity, Equity and...
Great news! Three very talented postdocs, Henry Mattingly, Keita Kamino and Mahmut Demir, will be leaving the lab this summer to start new positions. Keita will be starting...
Viraaj and Nirag’s paper is now on eLife! Motivated by recent studies of walking fruit flies from our lab and others, they use simulations and theory to investigate why in...