As you unwrap your holiday presents, consider how you coordinate your fingers and limbs.
@gzmozd.bsky.social identified fly brain networks for body part coordination through experiments, biomechanical modeling, connectomics, and neural network simulations ! 🤖
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Being raised alone makes flies afraid of one another! 🪰
But exposure to other flies makes them become sociable. We found and recorded specific learning circuits in the brain that regulate this transition. Read more in our new preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now published in Nature Methods:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to present NeuroMechFly v2, a neuromechanical simulation of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, for exploring artificial neural networks (including connectome-driven models) controlling behavior.

www.neuromechfly.org

We're excited to present

"NeuroMechFly 2.0, a framework for simulating embodied sensorimotor control in adult Drosophila"

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In which we make our digital fly see, smell, adhere, and navigate challenging terrain