Drosophila folks! We just shared a new protocol for surgical preparation that enables long-term imaging in adult flies. It’s low-cost, simple, and highly repeatable. For demonstration, we show a 10-day voltage imaging and a 1-week population calcium imaging results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy New Year! 🥳 CSB Friday seminars resume Jan 9 with a fascinating talk by Prof Cheng Huang @huangchengwashu.bsky.social on “Decoding dopamine-mediated learning algorithms in the Drosophila brain”! 🧪🪰 Join us at 11am in RW432! csb.utoronto.ca/events/cheng...

Long-range axon branching: contributions to brain network plasticity and repair — a Review by Linda J. Richards, Cheng Huang, Adam Q. Bauer & Jin-Moo Lee #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG

This is our best in vivo AP propagation movie so far. Recorded at 1k Hz from the axonal branches of a fly CNS neuron, using voltage indicator pAce.

Thanks to the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience for providing seed funding for a new project that aims at understanding the etiology of environmental stress induced seizures in Drosophila. In collaboration with the Huang lab (sites.wustl.edu/huanglab/).

I'm excited to share that our lab has received the Whitehall Foundation Award for our research on predictive learning in Drosophila with novel voltage and dopamine imaging. We are incredibly grateful to the Whitehall Foundation (whitehall.org) for the generous support!