Professor Barry Dickson

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

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

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.e18. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yu, Jai Y and Dickson, Barry J (2008). Neuroscience: hidden female talent. Nature, 453 (7191), 41-2. doi: 10.1038/453041a

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

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

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

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

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

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). Axon guidance: morphogens show the way. Current biology : CB, 14 (1), R19-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.12.016

Dickson, Barry J (2002). Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298 (5600), 1959-64. doi: 10.1126/science.1072165

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

Dickson, B. J. (2000). Reverse gear for Drosophila. Nature, 405 (6789), 896-7. doi: 10.1038/35016186

Dickson, B. J. (1998). Photoreceptor development: breaking down the barriers. Current Biology, 8 (3), R90-R92. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70054-5

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

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