Maarten Zwart
Neuroscientist at University of St Andrews, UK. Previously at Cambridge Zoology, HHMI Janelia
- Reposted by Maarten ZwartExcited to share a preprint of my PhD work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We identified a class of segmental interneurons in the Drosophila larval VNC (the analog of the spinal cord) that gate motor output via tonic inhibition.
- Reposted by Maarten ZwartVery grateful to co-first author Jamie MacLeod, my usual suspects @maartenzwart.bsky.social and Stefan Pulver, and all the input we got at the recent Motor Control Meeting. Link to paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Now also covered by #FarmingToday on BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Beetles on the radio!
- Out today! A lovely story on how the larva of the red flour beetle moves - and infests stored food @jexpbiol.bsky.social
- Out today! A lovely story on how the larva of the red flour beetle moves - and infests stored food @jexpbiol.bsky.social
- Stellar undergraduate Bella @bellaxuying.bsky.social spearheaded the project, looking at how these animals move on different surfaces. They found that these larvae use their legs in metachronal waves from back to front to walk on surfaces they run fastest on, like paper (not flour!)
- However, when things get more challenging, they start deploying the spiky structures on their posterior ends called pygopods
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View full threadRead more about this project at JEB: shorturl.at/3VSzU, and thanks to project co-supervisor (socials-less) Stefan Pulver
