Eric T. Trautman

TL;DR: The utility of 7,000 transgenic lines of Drosophila melanogaster for identifying novel neuronal cell types, revealing brain asymmetry, and describing the nature and extent of neuronal shape stereotypy is illustrated.

TL;DR: Recon reconstructions of the entire brain of an adult female fly show that this freely available EM volume supports mapping of brain-spanning circuits, which will significantly accelerate Drosophila neuroscience.

TL;DR: Improved methods are summarized and the circuitry of a large fraction of the brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is presented, reducing the effort needed to answer circuit questions and providing procedures linking the neurons defined by the analysis with genetic reagents.

TL;DR: A custom high-throughput EM platform was developed and the entire adult fruit fly brain was imaged, using electron microscopy, enabling brain-spanning mapping of neuronal circuits at the synaptic level and finding that axonal arbors providing input to the MB calyx are more tightly clustered than previously indicated by light-level data.

TL;DR: It is found that OSNs can act as differentiators that transiently normalize stimulus intensity—a property potentially derived from a combination of integral feedback and feed-forward regulation of olfactory transduction.