𧡠New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social
We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked
What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective
We call it the digital sphinx
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sometimes failed experiments reveal gaps in how we are thinking about a problem, and digging into why an experiment didn't work can lead to discovery. This new preprint by Anne Sustar, in collaboration with Dion Dickman's lab, is one of those gratifying instances.π§΅
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper from Brandon Pratt, @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social, and colleagues on how hair plate proprioceptors sense joint limits and contribute to sensorimotor control of walking.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hereβs our latest preprint on uncovering neural control of a coordinated walking pattern! doi.org/10.64898/202... (author-list jumbled, see pdf for corrected). Video shows the central paradigm in this study, we optogenetically induce walking in headless flies and sequentially reduce proprioception.
New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving π·πππ ππβπππ
New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Wonderful team effort with @jan-ache.bsky.social, Fathima Iqbal, @sirinlieb.bsky.social, @merterginkaya.bsky.social, @sanderliessem.bsky.social, and others. Thanks to @erc.europa.eu #HorizonEurope #MSCA and @dfg.de for funding.