B. Gerber

Compromising tyrosine hydroxylase function establishes a delusion-like temporal profile of reinforcement by dopamine neurons in Drosophila

This study shows that impairing tyrosine hydroxylase in Drosophila alters dopamine neuron reinforcement timing, mimicking delusional causality attribution in different conditioning paradigms.

Cognitive limits of larval Drosophila: Testing for conditioned inhibition, sensory preconditioning and second-order conditioning

This study tests cognitive abilities in larval Drosophila using three complex tasks and finds evidence for conditioned inhibition but not sensory preconditioning or second-order conditioning.

Age-related decrease in appetitive associative memory in fruit flies

This study shows that appetitive memory in fruit flies declines with age, observed in both one-trial and two-trial conditioning, with females showing more pronounced decline than males.

Mammals adjust diel activity across gradients of urbanization

The paper examines how eight mammal species adjust their daily activity patterns across urbanization gradients in ten U.S. cities, finding species-specific responses to environmental factors.

Rethinking habitat occupancy modeling and the role of diel activity in an anthropogenic world

The paper develops a new occupancy model to analyze diel activity patterns of species in response to human disturbance and finds that both fosa and coyote adjust their habitat use across diel states and years.

Molecular basis for recognition of Listeria cell wall teichoic acid by the pseudo-symmetric SH3b-like repeats of a bacteriophage endolysin

The paper describes the atomic-level interaction between a bacteriophage endolysin's CBD500 domain and Listeria cell wall teichoic acid, identifying key epitopes and binding mechanisms.

Accounting for location uncertainty in azimuthal telemetry data improves ecological inference

The paper introduces a novel azimuthal telemetry model to account for location uncertainty in ecological analyses and shows its benefits over existing methods.