News + Updates

We are excited to announce the publication of our insight paper, written to accompany the most recent publication from the Rubin Lab. This incredible paper uses the Split-GAL4 system to dissect the Dr...

We are happy to share that our most recent work, titled: "The dorsal fan-shaped body is a neurochemically heterogeneous sleep-regulating center in Drosophila," has been published in PLOS Biology. In...

We were happy to host some local high school students to learn about what we do in our lab! Students got to sort flies based on sex, eye color, and wing shape, use a microscope to view dissected...

Nina Mitchell and Abhi Krovvidi traveled to Jefferson City to present their research at the Missouri State Capitol. Their poster, titled "Appetitive Olfactory Short-Term Memory Detection Utilizing Y...

In this recent work, titled "An optimized appetitive visual short-term memory paradigm in Drosophila," we unveiled several confounding factors that may impair appetitive visual short-term memory. By...

Brandon Holder, who completed his PhD in our lab in December of 2024, has joined the lab as a post-doctoral research fellow to continue his research. In this capacity, he will continue his research...

Our recent work, titled "The dorsal fan-shaped body is a neurochemically heterogeneous sleep-regulating center in Drosophila," investigates the dFB in terms of sleep and chemical identity. In this...

We are excited to announce that our NINDS R01 grant application has been awarded by the NIH! This grant will investigate and bolster our understanding of VNC-SP neurons, which we first uncovered and...

We are excited to announce that our recent manuscript has been published in PLOS Biology! In this work, titled "Regulation of sleep by cholinergic neurons located outside the central brain in...