Professor Barry Dickson
Professorial Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
+61 7 334 66328
Professor Barry Dickson: Neural circuits and behaviour
The Dickson laboratory investigates the neural circuits that control walking in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. The goal is to understand how local circuits in the nerve cord produce rhythmic motor patterns, how these patterns are co-ordinated across each leg joint and all six legs, and how descending signals from the brain modulate these operations to alter the fly's direction, speed and gait.
Journal Articles
Meissner, Geoffrey W., Vannan, Allison, Jeter, Jennifer, Close, Kari, DePasquale, Gina M., Dorman, Zachary, Forster, Kaitlyn, Beringer, Jaye Anne, Gibney, Theresa, Hausenfluck, Joanna H., He, Yisheng, Henderson, Kristin, Johnson, Lauren, Johnston, Rebecca M., Ihrke, Gudrun, Iyer, Nirmala A., Lazarus, Rachel, Lee, Kelley, Li, Hsing-Hsi, Liaw, Hua-Peng, Melton, Brian, Miller, Scott, Motaher, Reeham, Novak, Alexandra, Ogundeyi, Omotara, Petruncio, Alyson, Price, Jacquelyn, Protopapas, Sophia, Tae, Susana ... FlyLight Project Team (2025). A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila neuron types. eLife, 13 RP98405, 1-21. doi: 10.7554/elife.98405
Schlegel, Philipp, Yin, Yijie, Bates, Alexander S., Dorkenwald, Sven, Eichler, Katharina, Brooks, Paul, Han, Daniel S., Gkantia, Marina, dos Santos, Marcia, Munnelly, Eva J., Badalamente, Griffin, Serratosa Capdevila, Laia, Sane, Varun A., Fragniere, Alexandra M. C., Kiassat, Ladann, Pleijzier, Markus W., Stürner, Tomke, Tamimi, Imaan F. M., Dunne, Christopher R., Salgarella, Irene, Javier, Alexandre, Fang, Siqi, Perlman, Eric, Kazimiers, Tom, Jagannathan, Sridhar R., Matsliah, Arie, Sterling, Amy R., Yu, Szi-Chieh, McKellar, Claire E. ... FlyWire Consortium (2024). Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila. Nature, 634 (8032), 139-152. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07686-5
Dorkenwald, Sven, Matsliah, Arie, Sterling, Amy R., Schlegel, Philipp, Yu, Szi-Chieh, McKellar, Claire E., Lin, Albert, Costa, Marta, Eichler, Katharina, Yin, Yijie, Silversmith, Will, Schneider-Mizell, Casey, Jordan, Chris S., Brittain, Derrick, Halageri, Akhilesh, Kuehner, Kai, Ogedengbe, Oluwaseun, Morey, Ryan, Gager, Jay, Kruk, Krzysztof, Perlman, Eric, Yang, Runzhe, Deutsch, David, Bland, Doug, Sorek, Marissa, Lu, Ran, Macrina, Thomas, Lee, Kisuk, Bae, J. Alexander ... The FlyWire Consortium (2024). Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Nature, 634 (8032), 124-138. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07558-y
Shiozaki, Hiroshi M., Wang, Kaiyu, Lillvis, Joshua L., Xu, Min, Dickson, Barry J. and Stern, David L. (2024). Activity of nested neural circuits drives different courtship songs in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience, 27 (10), 1954-1965. doi: 10.1038/s41593-024-01738-9
Lillvis, Joshua L., Wang, Kaiyu, Shiozaki, Hiroshi M., Xu, Min, Stern, David L. and Dickson, Barry J. (2024). Nested neural circuits generate distinct acoustic signals during Drosophila courtship. Current Biology, 34 (4), 808-824.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.015
Vijayan, Vikram, Wang, Fei, Wang, Kaiyu, Chakravorty, Arun, Adachi, Atsuko, Akhlaghpour, Hessameddin, Dickson, Barry J. and Maimon, Gaby (2023). A rise-to-threshold process for a relative-value decision. Nature, 619 (7970), 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06271-6
Chen, Chin-Lin, Aymanns, Florian, Minegishi, Ryo, Matsuda, Victor D. V., Talabot, Nicolas, Günel, Semih, Dickson, Barry J. and Ramdya, Pavan (2023). Ascending neurons convey behavioral state to integrative sensory and action selection brain regions. Nature Neuroscience, 26 (4), 682-695. doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01281-z
Meissner, Geoffrey Wilson, Nern, Aljoscha, Dorman, Zachary, DePasquale, Gina M., Forster, Kaitlyn, Gibney, Theresa, Hausenfluck, Joanna H., He, Yisheng, Iyer, Nirmala A., Jeter, Jennifer, Johnson, Lauren, Johnston, Rebecca M., Lee, Kelley, Melton, Brian, Yarbrough, Brianna, Zugates, Christopher T., Clements, Jody, Goina, Cristian, Otsuna, Hideo, Rokicki, Konrad, Svirskas, Robert R., Aso, Yoshinori, Card, Gwyneth M., Dickson, Barry J., Ehrhardt, Erica, Goldammer, Jens, Ito, Masayoshi, Kainmueller, Dagmar, Korff, Wyatt ... Malkesman, Oz (2023). A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4-driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution. eLife, 12 80660, 1-20. doi: 10.7554/elife.80660
Lillvis, Joshua L., Otsuna, Hideo, Ding, Xiaoyu, Pisarev, Igor, Kawase, Takashi, Colonell, Jennifer, Rokicki, Konrad, Goina, Cristian, Gao, Ruixuan, Hu, Amy, Wang, Kaiyu, Bogovic, John, Milkie, Daniel E., Meienberg, Linus, Mensh, Brett D., Boyden, Edward S., Saalfeld, Stephan, Tillberg, Paul W. and Dickson, Barry J. (2022). Rapid reconstruction of neural circuits using tissue expansion and light sheet microscopy. eLife, 11 e81248, 1-36. doi: 10.7554/elife.81248
Baker, Christa A., McKellar, Claire, Pang, Rich, Nern, Aljoscha, Dorkenwald, Sven, Pacheco, Diego A., Eckstein, Nils, Funke, Jan, Dickson, Barry J. and Murthy, Mala (2022). Neural network organization for courtship-song feature detection in Drosophila. Current Biology, 32 (15), 3317-3333.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.019
Shiu, Philip K., Sterne, Gabriella R., Engert, Stefanie, Dickson, Barry J. and Scott, Kristin (2022). Taste quality and hunger interactions in a feeding sensorimotor circuit. eLife, 11 e79887, 1-24. doi: 10.7554/elife.79887
Chen, Chenghao, Agrawal, Sweta, Mark, Brandon, Mamiya, Akira, Sustar, Anne, Phelps, Jasper S., Lee, Wei-Chung Allen, Dickson, Barry J., Card, Gwyneth M. and Tuthill, John C. (2021). Functional architecture of neural circuits for leg proprioception in Drosophila. Current Biology, 31 (23), 5163-5175.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.035
Sterne, Gabriella R., Otsuna, Hideo, Dickson, Barry J. and Scott, Kristin (2021). Classification and genetic targeting of cell types in the primary taste and premotor center of the adult Drosophila brain. eLife, 10 e71679. doi: 10.7554/elife.71679
Feng, Kai, Sen, Rajyashree, Minegishi, Ryo, Dübbert, Michael, Bockemühl, Till, Büschges, Ansgar and Dickson, Barry J. (2020). Distributed control of motor circuits for backward walking in Drosophila. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 6166, 6166. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19936-x
Wang, Kaiyu, Wang, Fei, Forknall, Nora, Yang, Tansy, Patrick, Christopher, Parekh, Ruchi and Dickson, Barry J. (2020). Neural circuit mechanisms of sexual receptivity in Drosophila females. Nature, 589 (7843), 577-581. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2972-7
McKellar, Claire E., Siwanowicz, Igor, Dickson, Barry J. and Simpson, Julie H. (2020). Controlling motor neurons of every muscle for fly proboscis reaching. eLife, 9 e54978, 1-34. doi: 10.7554/elife.54978
Wang, Fei, Wang, Kaiyu, Forknall, Nora, Patrick, Christopher, Yang, Tansy, Parekh, Ruchi, Bock, Davi and Dickson, Barry J. (2020). Neural circuitry linking mating and egg laying in Drosophila females. Nature, 579 (7797), 101-105. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2055-9
Wang, Fei, Wang, Kaiyu, Forknall, Nora, Parekh, Ruchi and Dickson, Barry J. (2020). Circuit and behavioral mechanisms of sexual rejection by Drosophila females. Current Biology, 30 (19), 3749-3760.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.083
Sen, Rajyashree, Wang, Kaiyu and Dickson, Barry J. (2019). TwoLumps ascending neurons mediate touch-evoked reversal of walking direction in Drosophila. Current Biology, 29 (24), 4337-4344.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.004
Riabinina, Olena, Vernon, Samuel W., Dickson, Barry J. and Baines, Richard A. (2019). Split-QF system for fine-tuned transgene expression in. Genetics, 212 (1), 53-63. doi: 10.1534/genetics.119.302034
Ding, Yun, Lillvis, Joshua L., Cande, Jessica, Berman, Gordon J., Arthur, Benjamin J., Long, Xi, Xu, Min, Dickson, Barry J. and Stern, David L. (2019). Neural evolution of context-dependent fly song. Current Biology, 29 (7), 1089-1099.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.019
McKellar, Claire E., Lillvis, Joshua L., Bath, Daniel E., Fitzgerald, James E., Cannon, John G., Simpson, Julie H. and Dickson, Barry J. (2019). Threshold-based ordering of sequential actions during Drosophila courtship. Current Biology, 29 (3), 426-434.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.019
Ribeiro, Inês M. A., Drews, Michael, Bahl, Armin, Machacek, Christian, Borst, Alexander and Dickson, Barry J. (2018). Visual projection neurons mediating directed courtship in Drosophila. Cell, 174 (3), 607-621. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.020
Clemens, Jan, Girardin, Cyrille C, Coen, Philip, Guan, Xiao-Juan, Dickson, Barry J. and Murthy, Mala (2018). Connecting Neural Codes with Behavior in the Auditory System of Drosophila. Neuron, 97 (2), 475-475. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.033
Zhao, Xiaoliang, Lenek, Daniela, Dag, Ugur, Dickson, Barry J. and Keleman, Krystyna (2018). Persistent activity in a recurrent circuit underlies courtship memory in Drosophila. eLife, 7 e31425. doi: 10.7554/eLife.31425
Sen, Rajyashree, Wu, Ming, Branson, Kristin, Robie, Alice, Rubin, Gerald M. and Dickson, Barry J. (2017). Moonwalker descending neurons mediate visually evoked retreat in Drosophila. Current Biology, 27 (5), 766-771. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.008
Dickson, Benjamin J., Gatie, Mohamed I., Spice, Danielle M. and Kelly, Gregory M. (2017). NOX1 and NOX4 are required for the differentiation of mouse F9 cells into extraembryonic endoderm. PLoS One, 12 (2), e0170812. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170812
Swoboda, N., Moosburner, J., Bruckner, S., Yu, J. Y., Dickson, B. J. and Buhler, K. (2017). Visualization and quantification for interactive analysis of neural connectivity in Drosophila. Computer Graphics Forum, 36 (1), 160-171. doi: 10.1111/cgf.12792
Dulac, Catherine and Dickson, Barry J. (2016). Editorial overview: neurobiology of sex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 38, A1-A3. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.06.001
Trapp, Martin, Schulze, Florian, Novikov, Alexey A., Tirian, Laszlo, Dickson, Barry J. and Buhler, Kayja (2016). Adaptive and background-aware GAL4 expression enhancement of co-registered confocal microscopy images. Neuroinformatics, 14 (2), 221-233. doi: 10.1007/s12021-015-9289-y
Clemens, Jan, Girardin, Cyrille C., Coen, Philip, Guan, Xiao-Juan, Dickson, Barry J. and Murthy, Mala (2015). Connecting neural codes with behavior in the auditory system of Drosophila. Neuron, 87 (6), 1332-1343. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.014
Ammer, Georg, Leonhardt, Aljoscha, Bahl, Armin, Dickson, Barry J. and Borst, Alexander (2015). Functional specialization of neural input elements to the Drosophila ON motion detector. Current Biology, 25 (17), 2247-2253. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.014
Ordan, Elly, Brankatschk, Marko, Dickson, Barry, Schnorrer, Frank and Volk, Talila (2015). Slit cleavage is essential for producing an active, stable, non-diffusible short-range signal that guides muscle migration. Development , 142 (8), 1431-1436. doi: 10.1242/dev.119131
Chin, An-Lun, Lin, Chih-Yung, Fu, Tsai-Feng, Dickson, Barry J. and Chiang, Ann-Shyn (2014). Diversity and wiring variability of visual local neurons in the Drosophila medulla M6 stratum. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 522 (17), 3795-3816. doi: 10.1002/cne.23622
Feng, Kai, Palfreyman, Mark T., Häsemeyer, Martin, Talsma, Aaron and Dickson, Barry J. (2014). Ascending SAG neurons control sexual receptivity of Drosophila females. Neuron, 83 (1), 135-148. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.05.017
Bussell, Jennifer J., Yapici, Nilay, Zhang, Stephen X., Dickson, Barry J. and Vosshall, Leslie B. (2014). Abdominal-B neurons control Drosophila virgin female receptivity. Current Biology, 24 (14), 1584-1595. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.011
Bath, Daniel E., Stowers, John R., Hoermann, Dorothea, Poehlmann, Andreas, Dickson, Barry J. and Straw, Andrew D. (2014). FlyMAD: Rapid thermogenetic control of neuronal activity in freely walking Drosophila. Nature Methods, 11 (7), 756-762. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2973
Ganglberger, Florian, Schulze, Florian, Tirian, Laszlo, Novikov, Alexey, Dickson, Barry, Bühler, Katja and Langs, Georg (2014). Structure-based neuron retrieval across Drosophila brains. Neuroinformatics, 12 (3), 423-34. doi: 10.1007/s12021-014-9219-4
Bidaye, Salil S., Machacek, Christian, Wu, Yang and Dickson, Barry J. (2014). Neuronal control of Drosophila walking direction. Science, 344 (6179), 97-101. doi: 10.1126/science.1249964
Meier, Matthias, Serbe, Etienne, Maisak, Matthew S., Haag, Juergen, Dickson, Barry J. and Borst, Alexander (2014). Neural circuit components of the drosophila off motion vision pathway. Current Biology, 24 (4), 385-392. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.006
von Philipsborn, Anne C., Joerchel, Sabrina, Tirian, Laszlo, Demir, Ebru, Morita, Tomoko, Stern, David L. and Dickson, Barry J. (2014). Cellular and behavioral functions of fruitless isoforms in Drosophila courtship. Current Biology, 24 (3), 242-251. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.12.015
Kvon, Evgeny Z., Kazmar, Tomas, Stampfel, Gerald, Yanez-Cuna, J. Omar, Pagani, Michaela, Schernhuber, Katharina, Dickson, Barry J. and Stark, Alexander (2014). Genome-scale functional characterization of Drosophila developmental enhancers in vivo. Nature, 512 (1), 91-95. doi: 10.1038/nature13395
Lin, Hui-Hao, Chu, Li-An, Fu, Tsai-Feng, Dickson, Barry J. and Chiang, Ann-Shyn (2013). Parallel neural pathways mediate CO2 avoidance responses in Drosophila. Science, 340 (6138), 1338-1341. doi: 10.1126/science.1236693
Lin, Chih-Yung, Chuang, Chao-Chun, Hua, Tzu-En, Chen, Chun-Chao, Dickson, Barry J., Greenspan, Ralph J. and Chiang, Ann-Shyn (2013). A comprehensive wiring diagram of the protocerebral bridge for visual information processing in the Drosophila brain. Cell Reports, 3 (5), 1739-1753. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.04.022
Maisak, Matthew S., Haag, Juergen, Ammer, Georg, Serbe, Etienne, Meier, Matthias, Leonhardt, Aljoscha, Schilling, Tabea, Bahl, Armin, Rubin, Gerald M., Nern, Aljoscha, Dickson, Barry J., Reiff, Dierk F., Hopp, Elisabeth and Borst, Alexander (2013). A directional tuning map of Drosophila elementary motion detectors. Nature, 500 (7461), 212-216. doi: 10.1038/nature12320
Kruettner, Sebastian, Stepien, Barbara, Noordermeer, Jasprina N., Mommaas, Mieke A., Mechtler, Karl, Dickson, Barry J. and Keleman, Krystyna (2012). Drosophila CPEB Orb2A mediates memory independent of its RNA-binding domain. Neuron, 76 (2), 383-395. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.08.028
Keleman, Krystyna, Vrontou, Eleftheria, Kruettner, Sebastian, Yu, Jai Y., Kurtovic-Kozaric, Amina and Dickson, Barry J. (2012). Dopamine neurons modulate pheromone responses in Drosophila courtship learning. Nature, 489 (7414), 145-149. doi: 10.1038/nature11345
Toda, Hirofumi, Zhao, Xiaoliang and Dickson, Barry J. (2012). The Drosophila female aphrodisiac pheromone activates ppk23+ sensory neurons to elicit male courtship behavior. Cell Reports, 1 (6), 599-607. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.05.007
Kvon, Evgeny Z., Stampfel, Gerald, Yanez-Cuna, J. Omar, Dickson, Barry J. and Stark, Alexander (2012). HOT regions function as patterned developmental enhancers and have a distinct cis-regulatory signature. Genes and Development, 26 (9), 908-913. doi: 10.1101/gad.188052.112
Lai, Jason Sih-Yu, Lo, Shih-Jie, Dickson, Barry J. and Chiang, Ann-Shyn (2012). Auditory circuit in the Drosophila brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (7), 2607-2612. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1117307109
Pappu, Kartik S., Morey, Marta, Nern, Aljoscha, Spitzweck, Bettina, Dickson, Barry J. and Zipursky, S. L. (2011). Robo-3-mediated repulsive interactions guide R8 axons during Drosophila visual system development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (18), 7571-7576. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1103419108
Hadjieconomou, Dafni, Rotkopf, Shay, Alexandre, Cyrille, Bell, Donald M., Dickson, Barry J. and Salecker, Iris (2011). Flybow: Genetic multicolor cell labeling for neural circuit analysis in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Methods, 8 (3), 260-266. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1567
von Philipsborn, Anne C., Liu, Tianxiao, Yu, Jai Y., Masser, Christopher, Bidaye, Salil S. and Dickson, Barry J. (2011). Neuronal control of Drosophila courtship song. Neuron, 69 (3), 509-522. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.011
Yu, Jai Y, Kanai, Makoto I, Demir, Ebru, Jefferis, Gregory S X E and Dickson, Barry J (2010). Cellular organization of the neural circuit that drives Drosophila courtship behavior. Current biology : CB, 20 (18), 1602-14. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.025
Cachero, Sebastian, Ostrovsky, Aaron D., Yu, Jai Y, Dickson, Barry J. and Jefferis, Gregory S. X. E. (2010). Sexual dimorphism in the fly brain. Current Biology, 20 (18), 1589-601. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.07.045
Dickson, Barry J and Zou, Yimin (2010). Navigating intermediate targets: the nervous system midline. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2 (8), a002055. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a002055
Ribeiro, Carlos and Dickson, Barry J (2010). Sex peptide receptor and neuronal TOR/S6K signaling modulate nutrient balancing in Drosophila. Current Biology, 20 (11), 1000-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.061
Kim, Young-Joon, Bartalska, Katarina, Audsley, Neil, Yamanaka, Naoki, Yapici, Nilay, Lee, Ju-Youn, Kim, Yong-Chul, Markovic, Milica, Isaac, Elwyn, Tanaka, Yoshiaki and Dickson, Barry J. (2010). MIPs are ancestral ligands for the sex peptide receptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (14), 6520-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0914764107
Schnorrer, Frank, Schönbauer, Cornelia, Langer, Christoph C. H., Dietzl, Georg, Novatchkova, Maria, Schernhuber, Katharina, Fellner, Michaela, Azaryan, Anna, Radolf, Martin, Stark, Alexander, Keleman, Krystyna and Dickson, Barry J. (2010). Systematic genetic analysis of muscle morphogenesis and function in Drosophila. Nature, 464 (7286), 287-291. doi: 10.1038/nature08799
Spitzweck, Bettina, Brankatschk, Marko and Dickson, Barry J. (2010). Distinct protein domains and expression patterns confer divergent axon guidance functions for Drosophila Robo receptors. Cell, 140 (3), 409-20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.01.002
Bruckner, Stefan, Soltészová, Veronika, Gröller, M Eduard, Hladůvka, Jirí, Bühler, Katja, Yu, Jai Y. and Dickson, Barry J. (2009). BrainGazer--visual queries for neurobiology research. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15 (6), 1497-1504. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.121
Mummery-Widmer, Jennifer L, Yamazaki, Masakazu, Stoeger, Thomas, Novatchkova, Maria, Bhalerao, Sheetal, Chen, Doris, Dietzl, Georg, Dickson, Barry J. and Knoblich, Juergen A (2009). Genome-wide analysis of Notch signalling in Drosophila by transgenic RNAi. Nature, 458 (7241), 987-92. doi: 10.1038/nature07936
Häsemeyer, Martin, Yapici, Nilay, Heberlein, Ulrike and Dickson, Barry J. (2009). Sensory neurons in the Drosophila genital tract regulate female reproductive behavior. Neuron, 61 (4), 511-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.01.009
Dickson, Barry J (2008). Wired for sex: the neurobiology of Drosophila mating decisions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322 (5903), 904-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1159276
Berger, Jürg, Senti, Kirsten-André, Senti, Gabriele, Newsome, Timothy P., Asling, Bengt, Dickson, Barry J. and Suzuki, Takashi (2008). Systematic identification of genes that regulate neuronal wiring in the Drosophila visual system. PLoS Genetics, 4 (5) e1000085, 1-14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000085
Yu, Jai Y and Dickson, Barry J (2008). Neuroscience: hidden female talent. Nature, 453 (7191), 41-2. doi: 10.1038/453041a
Chen, Doris, Ahlford, Annika, Schnorrer, Frank, Kalchhauser, Irene, Fellner, Michaela, Viràgh, Erika, Kiss, Istvàn, Syvänen, Ann-Christine and Dickson, Barry J. (2008). High-resolution, high-throughput SNP mapping in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Methods, 5 (4), 323-9. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1191
Datta, Sandeep Robert, Vasconcelos, Maria Luisa, Ruta, Vanessa, Luo, Sean, Wong, Allan, Demir, Ebru, Flores, Jorge, Balonze, Karen, Dickson, Barry J. and Axel, Richard (2008). The Drosophila pheromone cVA activates a sexually dimorphic neural circuit. Nature, 452 (7186), 473-477. doi: 10.1038/nature06808
Pauli, Andrea, Althoff, Friederike, Oliveira, Raquel A., Heidmann, Stefan, Schuldiner, Oren, Lehner, Christian F., Dickson, Barry J. and Nasmyth, Kim (2008). Cell-type-specific TEV protease cleavage reveals cohesin functions in Drosophila neurons. Developmental Cell, 14 (2), 239-251. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.12.009
Yapici, Nilay, Kim, Young-Joon, Ribeiro, Carlos and Dickson, Barry J. (2008). A receptor that mediates the post-mating switch in Drosophila reproductive behaviour. Nature, 451 (7174), 33-7. doi: 10.1038/nature06483
Barkus, Rosemarie V, Klyachko, Olga, Horiuchi, Dai, Dickson, Barry J and Saxton, William M (2008). Identification of an axonal kinesin-3 motor for fast anterograde vesicle transport that facilitates retrograde transport of neuropeptides. Molecular biology of the cell, 19 (1), 274-83. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e07-03-0261
Dickson, Barry J and Moser, Edvard I (2007). Neurobiology of behaviour. Current opinion in neurobiology, 17 (6), 672-4. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2008.02.001
Keleman, Krystyna, Krüttner, Sebastian, Alenius, Mattias and Dickson, Barry J. (2007). Function of the Drosophila CPEB protein Orb2 in long-term courtship memory. Nature Neuroscience, 10 (12), 1587-93. doi: 10.1038/nn1996
Hattori, Daisuke, Demir, Ebru, Kim, Ho Won, Viragh, Erika, Zipursky, S. Lawrence and Dickson, Barry J. (2007). Dscam diversity is essential for neuronal wiring and self-recognition. Nature, 449 (7159), 223-7. doi: 10.1038/nature06099
Dietzl, Georg, Chen, Doris, Schnorrer, Frank, Su, Kuan-Chung, Barinova, Yulia, Fellner, Michaela, Gasser, Beate, Kinsey, Kaolin, Oppel, Silvia, Scheiblauer, Susanne, Couto, Africa, Marra, Vincent, Keleman, Krystyna and Dickson, Barry J (2007). A genome-wide transgenic RNAi library for conditional gene inactivation in Drosophila. Nature, 448 (7150), 151-6. doi: 10.1038/nature05954
Schnorrer, Frank, Kalchhauser, Irene and Dickson, Barry J. (2007). The transmembrane protein Kon-tiki couples to Dgrip to mediate myotube targeting in Drosophila. Developmental Cell, 12 (5), 751-66. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.02.017
Kurtovic, Amina, Widmer, Alexandre and Dickson, Barry J (2007). A single class of olfactory neurons mediates behavioural responses to a Drosophila sex pheromone. Nature, 446 (7135), 542-6. doi: 10.1038/nature05672
Sweeney, Lora B, Couto, Africa, Chou, Ya-Hui, Berdnik, Daniela, Dickson, Barry J, Luo, Liqun and Komiyama, Takaki (2007). Temporal target restriction of olfactory receptor neurons by Semaphorin-1a/PlexinA-mediated axon-axon interactions. Neuron, 53 (2), 185-200. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.12.022
Vrontou, Eleftheria, Nilsen, Steven P., Demir, Ebru, Kravitz, Edward A. and Dickson, Barry J. (2006). fruitless regulates aggression and dominance in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience, 9 (12), 1469-1471. doi: 10.1038/nn1809
Kvitsiani, Duda and Dickson, Barry J (2006). Shared neural circuitry for female and male sexual behaviours in Drosophila. Current biology : CB, 16 (10), R355-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.04.025
Brankatschk, Marko and Dickson, Barry J. (2006). Netrins guide Drosophila commissural axons at short range. Nature Neuroscience, 9 (2), 188-94. doi: 10.1038/nn1625
Yu, Jai Y and Dickson, Barry J (2006). Sexual behaviour: do a few dead neurons make the difference?. Current biology : CB, 16 (1), R23-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.12.009
Dickson, Barry J. and Gilestro, Giorgio F. (2006). Regulation of commissural axon pathfinding by slit and its Robo receptors. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 22, 651-675. doi: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.090704.151234
Couto, Africa, Alenius, Mattias and Dickson, Barry J (2005). Molecular, anatomical, and functional organization of the Drosophila olfactory system. Current biology : CB, 15 (17), 1535-47. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.07.034
Dickson, Barry J. (2005). Wnts send axons up and down the spinal cord. Nature Neuroscience, 8 (9), 1130-1132. doi: 10.1038/nn0905-1130
Demir, Ebru and Dickson, Barry J (2005). fruitless splicing specifies male courtship behavior in Drosophila. Cell, 121 (5), 785-94. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.04.027
Stockinger, Petra, Kvitsiani, Duda, Rotkopf, Shay, Tirián, László and Dickson, Barry J. (2005). Neural circuitry that governs Drosophila male courtship behavior. Cell, 121 (5), 795-807. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.04.026
Holt, Christine E and Dickson, Barry J (2005). Sugar codes for axons?. Neuron, 46 (2), 169-72. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.03.021
Keleman, Krystyna, Ribeiro, Carlos and Dickson, Barry J (2005). Comm function in commissural axon guidance: cell-autonomous sorting of Robo in vivo. Nature neuroscience, 8 (2), 156-63. doi: 10.1038/nn1388
Lundström, Annika, Gallio, Marco, Englund, Camilla, Steneberg, Pär, Hemphälä, Johanna, Aspenström, Pontus, Keleman, Krystyna, Falileeva, Ludmilla, Dickson, Barry J. and Samakovlis, Christos (2004). Vilse, a conserved Rac/Cdc42 GAP mediating Robo repulsion in tracheal cells and axons. Genes and Development, 18 (17), 2161-71. doi: 10.1101/gad.310204
Schnorrer, Frank and Dickson, Barry J. (2004). Muscle building mechanisms of myotube guidance and attachment site selection. Developmental Cell, 7 (1), 9-20. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2004.06.010
Ryder, Edward, Blows, Fiona, Ashburner, Michael, Bautista-Llacer, Rosa, Coulson, Darin, Drummond, Jenny, Webster, Jane, Gubb, David, Gunton, Nicola, Johnson, Glynnis, O'Kane, Cahir J, Huen, David, Sharma, Punita, Asztalos, Zoltan, Baisch, Heiko, Schulze, Janet, Kube, Maria, Kittlaus, Kathrin, Reuter, Gunter, Maroy, Peter, Szidonya, Janos, Rasmuson-Lestander, Asa, Ekström, Karin, Dickson, Barry, Hugentobler, Christoph, Stocker, Hugo, Hafen, Ernst, Lepesant, Jean Antoine, Pflugfelder, Gert ... Russell, Steven (2004). The DrosDel collection: a set of P-element insertions for generating custom chromosomal aberrations in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics, 167 (2), 797-813. doi: 10.1534/genetics.104.026658
Schnorrer, Frank and Dickson, Barry J (2004). Axon guidance: morphogens show the way. Current biology : CB, 14 (1), R19-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.12.016
Dickson, Barry and Walsh, Christopher A. (2004). Development. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14 (1), 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.01.016
Senti, Kirsten-André, Usui, Tadao, Boucke, Karin, Greber, Urs, Uemura, Tadashi and Dickson, Barry J (2003). Flamingo regulates R8 axon-axon and axon-target interactions in the Drosophila visual system. Current biology : CB, 13 (10), 828-32. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00291-4
Dickson, Barry J. (2003). Wiring the brain with insulin. Science, 300 (5618), 440-441. doi: 10.1126/science.1084513
Dickson, Barry J (2002). Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298 (5600), 1959-64. doi: 10.1126/science.1072165
Keleman, Krystyna, Rajagopalan, Srikanth, Cleppien, Diana, Teis, David, Paiha, Karin, Huber, Lukas A, Technau, Gerhard M and Dickson, Barry J (2002). Comm sorts robo to control axon guidance at the Drosophila midline. Cell, 110 (4), 415-27. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(02)00901-7
Hakeda-Suzuki, Satoko, Ng, Julian, Tzu, Julia, Dietzl, Georg, Sun, Yan, Harms, Matthew, Nardine, Tim, Luo, Liqun and Dickson, Barry J. (2002). Rac function and regulation during Drosophila development. Nature, 416 (6879), 438-442. doi: 10.1038/416438a
Ng, Julian, Nardine, Timothy, Harms, Matthew, Tzu, Julia, Goldstein, Ann, Sun, Yan, Dietzl, Georg, Dickson, Barry J. and Luo, Liqun (2002). Rac GTPases control axon growth, guidance and branching. Nature, 416 (6879), 442-7. doi: 10.1038/416442a
Dickson, Barry J and Senti, Kirsten-André (2002). Axon guidance: growth cones make an unexpected turn. Current biology : CB, 12 (6), R218-20. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00755-8
Dickson, Barry J and Keleman, Krystyna (2002). Netrins. Current biology : CB, 12 (5), R154-5. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00728-5
Bellotto, Manolo, Bopp, Daniel, Senti, Kirsten A, Burke, Richard, Deak, Peter, Maroy, Peter, Dickson, Barry, Basler, Konrad and Hafen, Ernst (2002). Maternal-effect loci involved in Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis: P element-induced mutations on the third chromosome. The International journal of developmental biology, 46 (1), 149-57.
Berger, J., Suzuki, T., Senti, K. A., Stubbs, J., Schaffner, G. and Dickson, B. J. (2001). Genetic mapping with SNP markers in Drosophila. Nature Genetics, 29 (4), 475-481. doi: 10.1038/ng773
Keleman, K and Dickson, B J (2001). Short- and long-range repulsion by the Drosophila Unc5 netrin receptor. Neuron, 32 (4), 605-17. doi: 10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00505-0
Maurel-Zaffran, C, Suzuki, T, Gahmon, G, Treisman, J E and Dickson, B J (2001). Cell-autonomous and -nonautonomous functions of LAR in R7 photoreceptor axon targeting. Neuron, 32 (2), 225-35. doi: 10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00471-8
Tapon, N, Ito, N, Dickson, B J, Treisman, J E and Hariharan, I K (2001). The Drosophila tuberous sclerosis complex gene homologs restrict cell growth and cell proliferation. Cell, 105 (3), 345-55. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(01)00332-4
Dickson, Barry J., Cline, Hollis, Polleux, Franck and Ghosh, Anirvan (2001). Making connections. EMBO Reports, 2 (3), 182-186. doi: 10.1093/embo-reports/kve051
Dickson, B. J. (2001). Moving on. Science, 291 (5510), 1910-1911. doi: 10.1126/science.1059938
Wittwer, F, van der Straten, A, Keleman, K, Dickson, B J and Hafen, E (2001). Lilliputian: an AF4/FMR2-related protein that controls cell identity and cell growth. Development (Cambridge, England), 128 (5), 791-800. doi: 10.1242/dev.128.5.791
Dickson, B J (2001). Rho GTPases in growth cone guidance. Current opinion in neurobiology, 11 (1), 103-10. doi: 10.1016/s0959-4388(00)00180-x
Rajagopalan, S, Vivancos, V, Nicolas, E and Dickson, B J (2000). Selecting a longitudinal pathway: Robo receptors specify the lateral position of axons in the Drosophila CNS. Cell, 103 (7), 1033-45. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)00207-5
Rajagopalan, S, Nicolas, E, Vivancos, V, Berger, J and Dickson, B J (2000). Crossing the midline: roles and regulation of Robo receptors. Neuron, 28 (3), 767-77. doi: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)00152-5
Dickson, B. J. (2000). Reverse gear for Drosophila. Nature, 405 (6789), 896-7. doi: 10.1038/35016186
Senti, K, Keleman, K, Eisenhaber, F and Dickson, B J (2000). brakeless is required for lamina targeting of R1-R6 axons in the Drosophila visual system. Development (Cambridge, England), 127 (11), 2291-301. doi: 10.1242/dev.127.11.2291
Newsome, T P, Schmidt, S, Dietzl, G, Keleman, K, Asling, B, Debant, A and Dickson, B J (2000). Trio combines with dock to regulate Pak activity during photoreceptor axon pathfinding in Drosophila. Cell, 101 (3), 283-94. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80838-7
Newsome, T P, Asling, B and Dickson, B J (2000). Analysis of Drosophila photoreceptor axon guidance in eye-specific mosaics. Development (Cambridge, England), 127 (4), 851-60. doi: 10.1242/dev.127.4.851
Burke, R, Nellen, D, Bellotto, M, Hafen, E, Senti, K A, Dickson, B J and Basler, K (1999). Dispatched, a novel sterol-sensing domain protein dedicated to the release of cholesterol-modified hedgehog from signaling cells. Cell, 99 (7), 803-15. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81677-3
Dickson, B. J. (1998). Photoreceptor development: breaking down the barriers. Current Biology, 8 (3), R90-R92. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70054-5
Dickson, Barry (1998). A Roundabout way of avoiding the midline. Nature, 391 (6666), 442-443. doi: 10.1038/35039
Van Der Straten, Alexandra, Rommel, Christian, Dickson, Barry and Hafen, Ernst (1997). The heat shock protein 83 (Hsp83) is required for Raf-mediated signalling in Drosophila. EMBO Journal, 16 (8), 1961-1969. doi: 10.1093/emboj/16.8.1961
Dickson, B J, van der Straten, A, Dominguez, M and Hafen, E (1996). Mutations Modulating Raf signaling in Drosophila eye development. Genetics, 142 (1), 163-71. doi: 10.1093/genetics/142.1.163
Mitchell, Kevin J., Doyle L., Jennifer, Serafini, Tito, Kennedy, Timothy E., Tessier-Lavigne, Marc, Goodman, Corey S. and Dickson, Barry J. (1996). Genetic analysis of Netrin genes in Drosophila: Netrins guide CNS commissural axons and peripheral motor axons. Neuron, 17 (2), 203-215. doi: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80153-1
Dickson, B. J., Domínguez, M., van der Straten, A. and Hafen, E. (1995). Control of Drosophila photoreceptor cell fates by phyllopod, a novel nuclear protein acting downstream of the Raf kinase. Cell, 80 (3), 453-462. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90496-4
Raabe, Thomas, Olivier, Jean Paul, Dickson, Barry, Liu, Xiangdong, Gish, Gerald D., Pawson, Tony and Hafen, Ernst (1995). Biochemical and genetic analysis of the Drk SH2/SH3 adaptor protein of Drosophila. EMBO Journal, 14 (11), 2509-2518. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1995.tb07248.x
Dickson, Barry (1995). Nuclear factors in sevenless signalling. Trends in Genetics, 11 (3), 106-111. doi: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)89011-3
Biggs III, William H., Zavitz, Kenton H., Dickson, Barry, Van Der Straten, Alexandra, Brunner, Damian, Hafen, Ernst and Zipursky, S. Lawrence (1994). The Drosophila rolled locus encodes a MAP kinase required in the sevenless signal transduction pathway. EMBO Journal, 13 (7), 1628-1635. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1994.tb06426.x
Reichman-Fried, Michal, Dickson, Barry, Hafen, Ernst and Shilo, Ben-Zion (1994). Elucidation of the role of breathless, a Drosophila FGF receptor homolog, in tracheal cell migration. Genes and Development, 8 (4), 428-439. doi: 10.1101/gad.8.4.428
Hafen, E., Dickson, B., Brunner, D. and Raabe, T. (1994). Genetic dissection of signal transduction mediated by the sevenless receptor tyrosine kinase in Drosophila. Progress in Neurobiology, 42 (2), 287-292. doi: 10.1016/0301-0082(94)90067-1
Dickson, Barry and Hafen, Ernst (1994). Genetics of signal transduction in invertebrates. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 4 (1), 64-70. doi: 10.1016/0959-437X(94)90092-2
Olivier, Jean Paul, Raabe, Thomas, Henkemeyer, Mark, Dickson, Barry, Mbamalu, Geraldine, Margolis, Ben, Schlessinger, Joseph, Hafen, Ernst and Pawson, Tony (1993). A Drosophila SH2-SH3 adaptor protein implicated in coupling the sevenless tyrosine kinase to an activator of Ras guanine nucleotide exchange, Sos. Cell, 73 (1), 179-191. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90170-U
Hafen, E., Dickson, B., Brunner, T. and Raabe, T. (1993). Genetic dissection of signal transduction mediated by the sevenless receptor tyrosine kinase in Drosophila. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 340 (1293), 273-278. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1993.0068
Dickson, B., Sprenger, F. and Hafen, E. (1992). Prepattern in the developing Drosophila eye revealed by an activated torso-sevenless chimeric receptor. Genes and Development, 6 (12 A), 2327-2339. doi: 10.1101/gad.6.12a.2327
Dickson, Barry, Sprenger, Frank, Morrison, Deborah and Hafen, Ernst (1992). Raf functions downstream of Rasl in the Sevenless signal transduction pathway. Nature, 360 (6404), 600-603. doi: 10.1038/360600a0
Andrews, A. E., Dickson, B., Lawley, B., Cobbett, C. and Pittard, A. J. (1991). Importance of the position of TYR R boxes for repression and activation of the tyrP and aroF genes in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology, 173 (16), 5079-5085. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.16.5079-5085.1991
Cobbett, Christopher, Dickson, Barry and Farmer, Lisa (1989). The role of a static bend in the DNA of the aroF regulatory region of Escherichia coli. Gene, 75 (1), 185-191. doi: 10.1016/0378-1119(89)90395-8
Janardhana, V., Propert, D. N., Cooper, I., Wolf, M., Garson, O. M., Hopper, J. L. and Dickson, B. J. (1988). Immunoglobulin allotypes Gm and Km in hematologic malignancies. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, 31 (2), 179-86. doi: 10.1016/0165-4608(88)90215-4
Conference Papers
Motevalli, Dorsa, Fogleman, Sydney, Alfredson, Robert, Stern, Ulrich, Silander, Will, Wang, Kaiyu, Dickson, Barry, Hige, Toshihide and Yang, Rebecca Chung-Hui (2024). Neural Circuitry Underlying Negative Valuation Of Sweetness In Drosophila. XLVI Annual Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Bonita Springs, FL United States, 17-20 April 2024. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Minegishi, Ryo, Feng, Kai and Dickson, Barry (2019). Cellular level analysis of the locomotor neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster. Living Machines, Nara, Japan, 9-12 July 2019. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-24741-6_32
Swoboda, N., Moosburner, J., Bruckner, S., Yu, J. Y., Dickson, B. J. and Bühler, K. (2014). Visual and quantitative analysis of higher order arborization overlaps for neural circuit research. Eurographics Association. doi: 10.2312/vcbm.20141189
Trapp, M., Schulze, F., Bühler, K., Liu, T. and Dickson, B. J. (2013). 3D object retrieval in an atlas of neuronal structures. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/s00371-013-0871-8
Schulze, F., Trapp, M., Bühler, K., Liu, T. and Dickson, B. (2012). Similarity based object retrieval of composite neuronal structures. doi: 10.2312/3DOR/3DOR12/001-008