Our collaborative paper with the Parnas lab has been published in Current Biology! In this study, we show that muscarinic acetylcholine receptors expressed in the axons of the mushroom body Kenyon cells enhance the stimulus specificity of olfactory learning. We propose this neuromodulation as one of the biological functions of the axo-axonic synapses between Kenyon cells that have been previously identified in ultrastructural studies.
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See AllWe published a new paper in eNeuro today. In this work, we investigated dopamine-induced synaptic plasticity in the mushroom body at the level of individual boutons and discovered unexpected diversity
Our first collaboration with an in-silico team at the Univ. of Tokyo has been posted on bioRxiv as a preprint. The model is based on the circuit identified in our most recent paper.
Drew presented a poster at Neurobiology of Drosophila meeting at CSHL. He unfortunately needed to switch to virtual presentation at the last minute, but Toshi participated in person and enjoyed meetin
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