Recent lab publications
Active antennal movements in Drosophila can tune wind encoding
Suver, M.P., Medina, A.M., and Nagel, K.I., 2022. Active antennal movements in Drosophila can tune wind encoding. Current Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.020.
A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation
Matheson, A.M., Lanz, A.J., Medina, A.M., Licata, A.M., Currier, T.A., Syed, M.H. and Nagel, K.I., 2022. A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation. Nature Communications, 13(1), pp.1-21.
Imp specifies olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila.
Hamid, A., Gattuso, H., Caglar, A.N., Pillai, M., Steele, T., Gonzalez, A., Nagel, K.I. and Syed, M.H., 2024. The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila. Current Biology, 34(3), pp. 473-488.
Recent Research Publications
Currier, T.A., Matheson, A.M. and Nagel, K.I., 2020. Encoding and control of airflow orientation by a set of Drosophila fan-shaped body neurons. eLife 2020;9:e61510 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61510
Suver, M.P., Matheson, A.M., Sarkar, S., Damiata, M., Schoppik, D. and Nagel, K.I., 2019. Encoding of wind direction by central neurons in Drosophila. Neuron, 102(4), pp.828-842.
Victor, J.D., Boie, S.D., Connor, E.G., Crimaldi, J.P., Ermentrout, G.B., and Nagel, K.I., 2019. Olfactory navigation and the receptor nonlinearity. J. Neurosci. 2512-18
Currier, T. and Nagel K.I., 2018 Multisensory control of orientation in tethered flying Drosophila. Current Biology. 28(22):3533-3546 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.020
Álvarez-Salvado, E., Licata, A.M., Connor, E.G., McHugh, M.K., King, B.M., Stavropoulos, N., Victor, J.D., Crimaldi, J.P. and Nagel, K.I., 2018. Elementary sensory-motor transformations underlying olfactory navigation in walking fruit-flies. Elife, 7, p.e37815.
Boie, S.D., Connor, E.G., McHugh, M., Nagel, K.I., Ermentrout, G.B., Crimaldi, J.P., Victor, J.D., 2018. Information-theoretic analysis of realistic odor plumes: What cues are useful for determining location? PLoS Comp Bio, 14(7), e1006275.
Fulterer A, Andlauer, T.F.M., Ender A., Maglione M., Eyring K., Woitkuhn J., Lehmann M., Matkovic-Rachid T., Geiger J.R.P., Walter A.M., Nagel K.I., Sigrist S.J., 2018. Active Zone Scaffold Protein Ratios Tune Functional Diversity across Brain Synapses. Cell Rep. May 23(5):1259-1274
Reviews
Steele, T.J., Lanz, A.J., and Nagel K.I., 2023. Olfactory Navigation in Arthropods. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. doi: 10.1007/s00359-022-01611-9
Currier, T.A., and Nagel, K.I., 2020. Multisensory control of navigation in the fruit fly. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 64, pp.10-16.
Baker K.L., Dickinson M., Findley T.M., Gire D.H., Louis M., Suver M.P., Verhagen J.V., Nagel K.I., Smear M.C., 2018. Algorithms for olfactory search across species. J Neurosci. 2018 Oct 31;38(44):9383-9389. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1668-18.2018.
Gaudry, Q., Nagel, K.I., and R.I. Wilson, 2012. “Smelling on the fly: sensory cues and strategies for olfactory navigation in Drosophila.” Curr. Op. Neurobiol. 22(2):216-22.