Hybrid Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, February 23, 2024
Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D.
Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor and Head of Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
From Milliseconds to Millennia: Mapping the Mechanisms of Adaptive Behavior
Recommended Readings:
Coleman, Rory T., et al. “A modular circuit architecture coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies in Drosophila.” bioRxiv (2023).
Zolin, Aryeh, et al. “Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways.” Nature Neuroscience 24.11 (2021): 1555-1566.
Hindmarsh Sten, Tom, et al. “Sexual arousal gates visual processing during Drosophila courtship.” Nature 595.7868 (2021): 549-553.
Handler, Annie, et al. “Distinct dopamine receptor pathways underlie the temporal sensitivity of associative learning.” Cell 178.1 (2019): 60-75.
Seeholzer, Laura F., et al. “Evolution of a central neural circuit underlies Drosophila mate preferences.” Nature 559.7715 (2018): 564-569.