Janis C. Weeks

TL;DR: The EPSP was reversibly inhibited in a dose-dependent fashion by the cholinergic antagonists d -tubocurarine, atropine and mecamylamine, indicating that the planta hair afferent neurones use acetylcholine (ACh) as a neurotransmitter.

TL;DR: The fabrication and use of a microfluidic device for performing whole-animal chemical screens using non-invasive electrophysiological readouts of neuromuscular function in the nematode worm, C. elegans, accurately reported the acute effects of known anthelmintics (anti-nematode drugs) and also correctly distinguished a specific drug-resistant mutant strain of C. worm from wild type.

TL;DR: There is a continuation into postembryonic life of many neuro­ developmental processes that are normally viewed as being restricted to embryonic life, such as neuronal birth and death, and changes in neuronal structure and synaptic connectivity, and the relative simplicity of the insect nervous system offers an excellent opportunity to study these phenomena in individually identified neurons.

TL;DR: Cell 208 makes a variety of segmentally repeated, interganglionic mono- and polysynaptic connections with swim motor neurons which are appropriate for generating a sinusoidal body posture, and has almost complete control over the strength of the dorsal flexion phase of swimming.

TL;DR: The excitatory neural pathways linking the planta hair afferents and the proleg retractor motoneurons (MNs) are investigated, suggesting that the neurotransmitter at the synapse is acetylcholine (ACh), of particular interest because the ACh receptors of tobacco-feedingManduca larvae are reported to be less nicotinesensitive than those of other insects.