Gallio Laboratory Featured in Northwestern News for Nature Publication
Professor Marco Gallio was featured in a Northwestern News story titled Using Fruit Flies to Understand How We Sense Hot and Cold. The news story discusses how Gallio and his research team mapped the fruit fly's brain, neuron by neuron, to study how the brain controls behavior. The work represents the first comprehensive mapping of the brain circuit that processes temperature information in any animal. The study, Temperature representation in the Drosophila brain, was published in Nature on March 4, 2015.
“We know very little about how neurons communicate in our brain to produce our behavior and emotions, so we study innate responses in model systems such as the fruit fly to understand basic brain functions.” Gallio said. "The principles we discover become intellectual tools to better understand our brain and how it controls behavior."
Other authors of the paper are Dominic D. Frank, Genevieve C. Jouandet and Patrick J. Kearney, from Northwestern University, and Lindsey J. Macpherson, from Columbia University.
4 March 2015