[Lfm] fly behaviour/cognition

[Elisabetta Versace]

Dear LondonFlyMeeting community,

my name is Eli(sabetta) Versace, I'm a behavioural neuroscientist at Queen Mary University of London, excited to restart my fly research on behaviour/cognition. Isa Palacios told me about this group (thanks) and I look forward to meeting you.

Would anybody help me by sharing any "smart" wild type/other relevant lines good for behaviour/cognition/learning?

If this is relevant to you, Queen Mary belongs to DTPs such as LIDO and NERC, and I am keen on starting new collaborations. I have new ideas on pattern learning, and I would love to expand to optogenetics (for instance). Below I copy some of my previous insect work (on different topics).

Gibbons et al. (2022). Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees PNAS https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205821119
Hsu et al.  (2020) Rapid sex-specific adaptation to high temperature in Drosophila. eLife 9:1–16. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53237
Versace.... de Biivort (2020) Individual, but not population asymmetries, are modulated by social environment and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports 10:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61410-7
Belloni et al. (2018) Evolutionary compromises to environmental toxins: Ammonia and urea tolerance in Drosophila suzukii and Drosophila melanogaster. Physiology and Behavior, 191, 146–154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.021
Rogers et al. (2016) Lateralized antennal control of aggression and sex differences in red mason bees, Osmia bicornis. Scientific Reports 6: 29411 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29411
... and some pilot data on the pattern learning... Peruffo et al.  (2018) Honeybees learn patterns with flashing lights, in The Evolution of Language, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, pp. 519-521.

Thank you in advance

Eli

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Elisabetta Versace, PhD, FEHA
Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology
Queen Mary University of London
Fogg Building, room 2.21A
Email: e.versace at qmul.ac.uk
Website: PreparedMindsLab<https://sites.google.com/view/prepared-minds-lab/home>
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