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Methods for acute and long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

Understanding how neural circuits remodel and adapt to animal behavior is a central theme in the field of Neuroscience. One strategy to reach this goal is to repeatedly record the same animal's neural circuits and observe how they adapt when facing differe ...

EPFL2022

Evolution of longevity improves immunity in Drosophila

Bruno Lemaitre

Much has been learned about the genetics of aging from studies in model organisms, but still little is known about naturally occurring alleles that contribute to variation in longevity. For example, analysis of mutants and transgenes has identified insulin ...

JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD2018

The melanization reaction in Drosophila: More than black or white

Jan Paul Dudzic

The melanization reaction is a rapid and important immune mechanism in arthropods. It results in the production of melanin at the site of injury and around invading microbes. The enzymes responsible for melanogenesis are phenoloxidases (PO), which catalyze ...

EPFL2018

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Pavan P Ramdya, Robin Thandiackal

To escape danger or catch prey, running vertebrates rely on dynamic gaits with minimal ground contact. By contrast, most insects use a tripod gait that maintains at least three legs on the ground at any given time. One prevailing hypothesis for this differ ...

2017

Microbiota-Induced Changes in Drosophila melanogaster Host Gene Expression and Gut Morphology

Bruno Lemaitre, Nichole Broderick

To elucidate mechanisms underlying the complex relationships between a host and its microbiota, we used the genetically tractable model Drosophila melanogaster. Consistent with previous studies, the microbiota was simple in composition and diversity. Howev ...

American Society for Microbiology2014

Omnidirectional Light Field Analysis and Reconstruction

Luigi Bagnato

Digital photography exists since 1975, when Steven Sasson attempted to build the first digital camera. Since then the concept of digital camera did not evolve much: an optical lens concentrates light rays onto a focal plane where a planar photosensitive ar ...

EPFL2012

Endocrine disruption in soil invertebrates

Sophie Campiche

In the past years, it has been observed that some compounds present in our environment can disturb the reproduction and development of animals like fishes, birds, or reptiles by interfering with their endocrine system. Indeed, these endocrine disrupting co ...

EPFL2006

Virtual humans: thirty years of research, what next?

Daniel Thalmann

In this paper, we present research results and future challenges in creating realistic and believable virtual humans. To realize these modeling goals, real-time realistic representation is essential, but we also need interactive and perceptive virtual huma ...

Springer-Verlag2005

A recessive mutation, immune deficiency (imd), defines two distinct control pathways in the Drosophila host defense

Bruno Lemaitre

In this paper we report a recessive mutation, immune deficiency (imd), that impairs the inducibility of all genes encoding antibacterial peptides during the immune response of Drosophila. When challenged with bacteria, flies carrying this mutation show a l ...

National Academy of Sciences1995

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