Katherine I. Nagel

This study identifies a specific group of neurons in Drosophila that exhibit working memory and evidence integration during olfactory navigation, showing their role in maintaining goal-directed behavior after odor loss.

This study shows that both first and second antennae in Parhyale hawaiensis are needed for effective food localization and stable swimming during foraging.

The paper investigates how genetic changes in CO2-sensing neurons drive divergent oviposition preferences in Drosophila species.

This paper introduces CaBLAM, a bioluminescent Ca2+ indicator with improved dynamic range and Ca2+ affinity, enabling high-resolution imaging of cellular activity in cultured neurons and in vivo.

The paper investigates how disinhibition of a recurrent attractor network in flies enables rapid switching of persistent goal signals during navigation.

The paper shows that PFN representations of self-motion can decode wind direction during flight using computational models and neural networks.

This paper identifies a hierarchical steering circuit in Drosophila that transforms navigational signals into coordinated motor actions during walking and flight.

This study investigates how inhibitory neural circuits regulate locomotor statistics in Drosophila, identifying specific neurons that control search behavior and movement parameters.

The paper identifies Tre1 and S1pr1 as evolutionarily conserved regulators of astrocyte morphology through lipid signaling and competition for growth-promoting phospholipids.

This study shows that the RNA-binding protein Imp, expressed in Type II neural stem cells, regulates olfactory navigation circuitry and behavior in Drosophila by specifying multiple circuit components and affecting neuronal morphology and function.

The paper introduces SAMPL, a high-throughput system for measuring posture and locomotion in small animals, demonstrating its use in zebrafish and showing genetic and developmental effects on movement.

This study investigates how active antennal movements in Drosophila influence wind encoding, showing that motor neurons control movement speed and that activation improves wind direction sensing.

The paper identifies a neural pathway in Drosophila that integrates odor and wind direction cues for upwind navigation.

The paper investigates how short-term synaptic plasticity in Drosophila olfactory neurons affects temporal filtering of sensory stimuli and odor source localization.

The paper identifies a group of Drosophila central complex neurons that encode airflow direction and are necessary for proper orientation to airflow.

This study identifies how Drosophila central neurons decode wind direction by comparing signals from both antennae.

This study identifies two elementary sensory-motor transformations in Drosophila olfactory navigation: an upwind run during odor and a search behavior at odor offset.

The paper studies how Drosophila integrates multisensory cues during navigation, finding that conflicting cues are dynamically summed to produce intermediate turn commands.