Neuroscience Publications

Divergent synaptic dynamics originate parallel pathways for computation and behavior in an olfactory circuit

Fly navigational responses to odor motion and gradient cues are tuned to plume statistics

Bifurcation enhances temporal information encoding in the olfactory periphery

* contributed equally; # co-corresponding authors

Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation

Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects

Temporal novelty detection and multiple timescale integration drive Drosophila orientation dynamics in temporally diverse olfactory environments

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Odour motion sensing enhances complex plume navigation

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• News and Views: Flies catch wind of where smells come from, by Floris van Breugel and Bingni W. Brunton, Nature, 10.1038/d41586-022-03561-3, Nov 9 2022
• Yale News article by Bill Hathaway
• YouTube: Flies smell the motion of odors and use it to navigate
• How animals follow their nose, Knowable Magazine, by Dana Mackenzie, March 6 2023

Sensing complementary temporal features of odor signals enhances navigation of diverse turbulent plumes

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Navigation: Where is that smell coming from?

Walking Drosophila navigate complex plumes using stochastic decisions biased by the timing of odor encounters

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• Olfactory Navigation: Tempo is the key by Celani, eLife
• How insects find their targets in a chaotic world by William Hathaway
• YouTube video
• Yale scientists track how walking fruit flies navigate to odor sources by Katlin Flores

Controlling and measuring dynamic odorant stimuli in the laboratory

Front-end Weber-Fechner gain control enhances the fidelity of combinatorial odor coding

Olfactory receptor neurons use gain control and complementary kinetics to encode intermittent odorant stimuli

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Presynaptic GABA receptors mediate temporal contrast enhancement in Drosophila olfactory sensory neurons and modulate odor-driven behavioral kinetics

Intensity invariant dynamics and odor-specific latencies in olfactory receptor neuron response

Functional diversity among sensory receptors in a Drosophila olfactory circuit

Temporal coding of odor mixtures in an olfactory receptor neuron.,

Simulations of magneto-convection in the solar photosphere - Equations, methods, and results of the MURaM code,

Polarization of photospheric lines from turbulent dynamo simulations

On the interaction between convection and magnetic fields,

The zigzag path of buoyant magnetic tubes and the generation of vorticity along their periphery

Small-scale photospheric fields: Observational evidence and numerical simulations

The physics of twisted magnetic tubes rising in a stratified medium: Two-dimensional results

Equilibrium of twisted horizontal magnetic flux tubes

MHS-equilibrium of twisted magnetic tubes

The rise of twisted magnetic tubes in a stratified medium