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SUMMARY:Active vision and higher brain function in Drosophila melanogaster
  - Gaby Maimon\, Division of Biology\, Caltech
DTSTART:20100308T110000Z
DTEND:20100308T120000Z
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CONTACT:Greg Jefferis
DESCRIPTION:Studying how arthropods\, with tiny brains\, produce sophistic
 ated behaviors could reveal new principles of nervous system function.  In
  this talk\, I will discuss a simple vision-based algorithm used by flying
  fruit flies to guide steering decisions.  I will also describe a new prep
 aration that allows one to perform whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in be
 having Drosophila.  Initial results with this preparation demonstrate that
  sensory responses of fly visual neurons are strongly upregulated during f
 light\, compared to non-flight.  The ability to make detailed electrophysi
 ological measurements in behaving Drosophila promises to help unify the un
 derstanding of behavior at the gene\, cell\, and circuit levels.\n\nSee al
 so Gaby's recent  "Nature Neuroscience article":http://www.nature.com/neur
 o/journal/v13/n3/abs/nn.2492.html for details.
LOCATION:MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2)
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