A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila

Mert Erginkaya, Tomás Cruz, Margarida Brotas, André Marques, Kathrin Steck, Aljoscha Nern, Filipa Torrão, Nélia Varela, Davi D. Bock, Michael Reiser & M. Eugenia Chiappe (2025) Nature Neuroscience PDF

A comprehensive neuroanatomical survey of the Drosophila Lobula Plate Tangential Neurons with predictions for their optic flow sensitivity.

Zhao, A, Nern, A, Koskela, S, Dreher, M, Erginkaya, M, Laughland, CW, Ludwigh, H, Thomson, A, Hoeller, J, Parekh, R, Romani, S, Bock, DD, Chiappe, ME and Reiser, MB (2023).
eLife 13:RP93659; PDF

A comprehensive neuroanatomical survey of the Drosophila Lobula Plate Tangential Neurons with predictions for their optic flow sensitivity.

Zhao, A, Nern, A, Koskela, S, Dreher, M, Erginkaya, M, Laughland, CW, Ludwigh, H, Thomson, A, Hoeller, J, Parekh, R, Romani, S, Bock, DD, Chiappe, ME and Reiser, MB (2023).
eLife 13:RP93659; PDF

Multilevel visual control of locomotion in Drosophila.

Cruz, TL, and Chiappe, ME (2023).
Current Opinion Neurobiol 82, 102774; PDF

Circuits for self-motion estimation and walking control in Drosophila.

Chiappe, ME (2023).
Current Opinion Neurobiol 81, 102748; PDF

A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila.

Erginkaya, M, Cruz, TL, Brotas, M, Steck, K, Nern, A, Torrao, F, Varela, N, Bock, D, Reiser, MB,  Chiappe, ME (2023).
BioRxiv 552150; PDF

Motion vision: Drosophila neural pathways that go with the visual flow.

Erginkaya, M, and Chiappe, ME (2022).
Current Biology 32, R874-896; PDF

Walking  strides direct rapid and flexible recruitment of visual circuits for course control in Drosophila

Fujiwara T, Brotas M, and Chiappe ME (2022)..
Neuron 110, 1-15.; PDF

Fast tuning of posture control by visual feedback underlies gaze stabilization in walking Drosophila.

Cruz TL, Pérez SM, Chiappe ME. (2021).
Current Biology 31, 4596-4607; PDF

Highlighted in this Disptach by Zimmer, M (2019).  Current Biology 27, R1381-1402

DeepEthogram,  a machine learning pipeline for supervised behavior classification from raw pixels.

James P Bohnslav, Nivanthika K Wimalasena, Kelsey J Clausing, Yu Y Dai, David A Yarmolinsky, Tomás Cruz, Adam D Kashlan, M Eugenia Chiappe, Lauren L Orefice, Clifford J Woolf, Christopher D Harvey (2021).
eLife; PDF

A single MicroRNA-Hox Gene module controls equivalent movements in biomechanically distinct forms of Drosophila.

A. Raoulf Issa, João Picao-Osorio, Nuno Rito, M. Eugenia Chiappe, and Claudio Alonso (2019).
Current Biology 29: 2665-2675; PDF

Motor context coordinates visually guided walking in Drosophila.

Tomás Cruz, Terufumi Fujiwara, Nélia Varela, Farhan Mohammad, Adam Claridge-Chang, M Eugenia Chiappe (2019).
BiorXiv PDF

Sensation during active behavior.

Laura Busse, Jessica A. Cardin, M. Eugenia Chiappe, Michael M. Halassa, Matthew J. McGinley, Takayuki Yamashita and Aman B. Saleem (2017).
J. Neuroscience  45, 10826-10834; PDF

A faithful internal representation of walking movements in the Drosophila visual system.

Terufumi Fujiwara, Tomás L Cruz, James P Bohnslav, and M Eugenia Chiappe (2017).
Nature Neuroscience  20:72-81; PDF

Highlighted in this Disptach by Longden, KD; Huston, SJ, and Reiser, MB (2017).  Current Biology 27, R261-263

Motor-driven modulation in visual neural circuits.

Terufumi Fujiwara and M. Eugenia Chiappe (2017).
Chapter 10 in Decoding neural circuit structure and function: cellular dissection using genetic model organisms. Vol. 261. Ed Mathias Wernet and Arzu Çelik. Springer Int. PDF

Neural correlates of illusory motion perception in Drosophila.

Tuthill JC, Chiappe ME, Reiser MB (2011).
PNAS 108, 9685-9690; PDF

Walking modulates speed sensitivity in  Drosophila motion vision.

Chiappe ME, Seelig JD, Reiser MB, Jayaraman V (2010).
Current Biology 20, 1470-1475; PDF

Two-photon calcium imaging from head-fixed Drosophila during optomotor walking behavior.

Seelig JD*, Chiappe ME*, Lott GK*, Dutta A, Osborne JE, Reiser MB, Jayaraman V (2010)
Nature Methods 7, 535-540; PDF *equal contribution

Imaging neural activity in worms, flies and mice with improved GCaMP Calcium indicators.

Tian L, Hires SA, Mao T, Huber D, Chiappe ME, Chalasani SH, Petreanu L, Akerboom J, McKinney SA, Schreiter ER, Bargmann CI, Jayaraman V, Svoboda K and Looger LL (2009)
Nature Methods 6 , 875 – 881; PDF