Cell Reports,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
25(3), P. 651 - 662.e5
Published: Oct. 1, 2018
It
remains
unclear
how
memory
engrams
are
altered
by
experience,
such
as
new
learning,
to
cause
forgetting.
Here,
we
report
that
short-term
aversive
in
Drosophila
is
encoded
and
retrieved
from
the
mushroom
body
output
neuron
MBOn-γ2α′1.
Pairing
an
odor
with
electric
shock
creates
a
robust
depression
calcium
response
of
MBOn-γ2α′1
increases
avoidance
paired
odor.
Electric
after
which
activates
cognate
dopamine
DAn-γ2α′1,
restores
properties
causes
behavioral
Conditioning
second
responses
previously
learned
while
depressing
newly
odor,
showing
learning
forgetting
can
occur
simultaneously.
Moreover,
optogenetic
activation
DAn-γ2α′1
sufficient
for
bidirectional
modulation
properties.
Thus,
single
DAn
drive
both
bidirectionally
modulating
cellular
trace.
The
neural
circuits
responsible
for
animal
behavior
remain
largely
unknown.
We
summarize
new
methods
and
present
the
circuitry
of
a
large
fraction
brain
fruit
fly
Drosophila
melanogaster
.
Improved
include
procedures
to
prepare,
image,
align,
segment,
find
synapses
in,
proofread
such
data
sets.
define
cell
types,
refine
computational
compartments,
provide
an
exhaustive
atlas
examples
many
them
novel.
detailed
consisting
neurons
their
chemical
most
central
brain.
make
public
simplify
access,
reducing
effort
needed
answer
circuit
questions,
linking
defined
by
our
analysis
with
genetic
reagents.
Biologically,
we
examine
distributions
connection
strengths,
motifs
on
different
scales,
electrical
consequences
compartmentalization,
evidence
that
maximizing
packing
density
is
important
criterion
in
evolution
fly’s
Cell,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
174(3), P. 730 - 743.e22
Published: July 1, 2018
Drosophila
melanogaster
has
a
rich
repertoire
of
innate
and
learned
behaviors.
Its
100,000-neuron
brain
is
large
but
tractable
target
for
comprehensive
neural
circuit
mapping.
Only
electron
microscopy
(EM)
enables
complete,
unbiased
mapping
synaptic
connectivity;
however,
the
fly
too
conventional
EM.
We
developed
custom
high-throughput
EM
platform
imaged
entire
an
adult
female
at
resolution.
To
validate
dataset,
we
traced
brain-spanning
circuitry
involving
mushroom
body
(MB),
which
been
extensively
studied
its
role
in
learning.
All
inputs
to
Kenyon
cells
(KCs),
intrinsic
neurons
MB,
were
mapped,
revealing
previously
unknown
cell
type,
postsynaptic
partners
KC
dendrites,
unexpected
clustering
olfactory
projection
neurons.
These
reconstructions
show
that
this
freely
available
volume
supports
circuits,
will
significantly
accelerate
neuroscience.
VIDEO
ABSTRACT.
Science,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
363(6424)
Published: Jan. 18, 2019
Optical
and
electron
microscopy
have
made
tremendous
inroads
toward
understanding
the
complexity
of
brain.
However,
optical
offers
insufficient
resolution
to
reveal
subcellular
details,
lacks
throughput
molecular
contrast
visualize
specific
constituents
over
millimeter-scale
or
larger
dimensions.
We
combined
expansion
lattice
light-sheet
image
nanoscale
spatial
relationships
between
proteins
across
thickness
mouse
cortex
entire
Drosophila
These
included
synaptic
at
dendritic
spines,
myelination
along
axons,
presynaptic
densities
dopaminergic
neurons
in
every
fly
brain
region.
The
technology
should
enable
statistically
rich,
large-scale
studies
neural
development,
sexual
dimorphism,
degree
stereotypy,
structural
correlations
behavior
activity,
all
with
contrast.
Making
inferences
about
the
computations
performed
by
neuronal
circuits
from
synapse-level
connectivity
maps
is
an
emerging
opportunity
in
neuroscience.
The
mushroom
body
(MB)
well
positioned
for
developing
and
testing
such
approach
due
to
its
conserved
architecture,
recently
completed
dense
connectome,
extensive
prior
experimental
studies
of
roles
learning,
memory,
activity
regulation.
Here,
we
identify
new
components
MB
circuit
Drosophila,
including
visual
input
output
neurons
(MBONs)
with
direct
connections
descending
neurons.
We
find
unexpected
structure
sensory
inputs,
transfer
information
different
modalities
MBONs,
modulation
that
dopaminergic
(DANs).
provide
insights
into
circuitry
used
integrate
outputs,
between
central
complex
inputs
DANs,
feedback
MBONs.
Our
results
a
foundation
further
theoretical
work.
To
understand
the
brain,
molecular
details
need
to
be
overlaid
onto
neural
wiring
diagrams
so
that
synaptic
mode,
neuromodulation
and
critical
signaling
operations
can
considered.
Single-cell
transcriptomics
provide
a
unique
opportunity
collect
this
information.
Here
we
present
an
initial
analysis
of
thousands
individual
cells
from
Drosophila
midbrain,
were
acquired
using
Drop-Seq.
A
number
approaches
permitted
assignment
transcriptional
profiles
several
major
brain
regions
cell-types.
Expression
biosynthetic
enzymes
reuptake
mechanisms
allows
all
neurons
typed
according
neurotransmitter
or
neuromodulator
they
produce
presumably
release.
Some
neuropeptides
are
preferentially
co-expressed
in
particular
fast-acting
transmitter,
monoamine.
Neuromodulatory
receptor
subunit
expression
illustrates
potential
these
molecules
generating
complexity
circuit
function.
This
cell
atlas
dataset
provides
important
resource
link
complex
processes.
Flexible
behaviors
over
long
timescales
are
thought
to
engage
recurrent
neural
networks
in
deep
brain
regions,
which
experimentally
challenging
study.
In
insects,
circuit
dynamics
a
region
called
the
central
complex
(CX)
enable
directed
locomotion,
sleep,
and
context-
experience-dependent
spatial
navigation.
We
describe
first
complete
electron
microscopy-based
connectome
of
Current Opinion in Neurobiology,
Journal Year:
2017,
Volume and Issue:
49, P. 51 - 58
Published: Dec. 16, 2017
When
animals
learn,
plasticity
in
brain
networks
that
respond
to
specific
cues
results
a
change
the
behavior
these
elicit.
Individual
network
components
mushroom
bodies
of
fruit
fly
Drosophila
melanogaster
represent
cues,
learning
signals
and
behavioral
outcomes
learned
experience.
Recent
findings
have
highlighted
importance
dopamine-driven
activity
feedback
feedforward
connections,
between
various
elements
body
neural
network.
These
computational
motifs
been
shown
be
crucial
for
long
term
olfactory
memory
consolidation,
integration
internal
states,
re-evaluation
updating
information.
The
often
recurrent
circuit
anatomy
prolonged
requirement
parts
underlying
networks,
suggest
self-sustained
precisely
timed
is
fundamental
feature
computations
insect
brain.
Together
processes
allow
flies
continuously
adjust
content
their
knowledge
direct
way
best
represents
expectations
serves
most
pressing
current
needs.
Genetics,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
209(1), P. 31 - 35
Published: March 13, 2018
Abstract
The
ability
to
reproducibly
target
expression
of
transgenes
small,
defined
subsets
cells
is
a
key
experimental
tool
for
understanding
many
biological
processes.
Drosophila
nervous
system
contains
thousands
distinct
cell
types
and
it
has
generally
not
been
possible
limit
one
or
few
when
using
single
segment
genomic
DNA
as
an
enhancer
drive
expression.
Intersectional
methods,
in
which
the
transgene
only
occurs
where
two
different
enhancers
overlap
their
patterns,
can
be
used
achieve
desired
specificity.
This
report
describes
set
over
2800
transgenic
lines
use
with
split-GAL4
intersectional
method.