A/Professor John Tuthill
University of Washington
USA

 

Title: Sensorimotor control in walking fruit flies and snow flies

 

Abstract: In Part I of my talk, I will present evidence that sensory
signals in the axons of Drosophila leg proprioceptors are predictively
suppressed during walking. Suppressing expected proprioceptive
feedback caused by self-generated movement increases sensitivity to
unexpected external perturbations. In Part II, I will discuss extreme
cold tolerance in the snow fly (Chionea), a native of the Pacific
Northwest (USA). I will present evidence that snow flies can sustain
coordinated walking behavior at internal temperatures of -10° C.

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