NYU Dataset

Neurons Specify Goal-Directed Navigation Behaviors

Part of: Nagel Lab |
UID: 10592
* Corresponding Author
Description

Animals frequently combine odor cues about source identity with wind direction cues about source location to navigate towards a food source. However, where and how these two cues are integrated to support navigation remains unknown. This study described a pathway to the Drosophila fan-shaped body that encodes attractive odor and promotes upwind navigation. Behavioral experiments were performed in a miniature wind tunnel setup. For calcium imaging, they used older flies to maximize indicator expression, while they used younger flies for electrophysiology to minimize glial ensheathing. This dataset includes behavioral, electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, and connectomic data. This study revealed that odor and wind cues are processed by separate pathways and integrated within the fan-shaped body to support goal-directed navigation.

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All data generated in this study have been deposited on Zenodo. Original code is available on GitHub and model code is available on Zenodo.
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Equipment Used
A-M Systems Model 2400
Basler acA1920-155um
Brownlee Precision Model 410
Cole-Parmer Flowmeter
Mai Tai DeepSee
Molecular Devices MultiClamp 700B
Sutter P-1000
Thorlabs Bergamo II
Zeiss LSM 800
Software Used
ImageJ
LabVIEW
MATLAB
neuPrintExplorer
Python
ReadImageJROI
ThorImage v3.0
Grant Support
McKnight Scholar Award/McKnight Foundation
1555933/NSF
2014217/NSF
204720/NSF
McKnight Pecot Fellowship/McKnight Foundation
NYU Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship/NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science