Olfactory processing in Drosophila

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• Vikas Bhandawat, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
• Thursday 23 April 2009, 12:00-13:00
• MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

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Please note change of time from 11am to 12 noon

A major goal in neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits represent sensory information or guide behavior. Because of the complexity of our nervous system it is often difficult to pinpoint the neurons that participate in a given task. Therefore it makes sense to study these questions in smaller organisms like the worm or fly, where it is easier to define the neuronal population responsible for a given percept or behavior. Over the last few years there has been substantial progress in our ability to record neural signals from the Drosophila brain as well as in measuring its behavior, making it an attractive model system for addressing questions regarding the neural basis of behavior.

My talk will exemplify these advances. In the first part of my talk I will describe experiments that use in-vivo single cell recordings in the fly brain to understand the fundamental principles underlying olfactory processing in the antennal lobe (the first center for olfactory processing in insects). In the second part of my talk, I will describe paradigms for making quantitative assessment of a fly’s behavior. The overall aim is to measure neural and behavioral responses under the same stimulus condition to understand the neural basis of olfactory behavior.

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