{"id":4242,"date":"2015-08-15T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2015-08-17T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:19:10","slug":"filming-the-brain-activity-of-a-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/filming-the-brain-activity-of-a-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming the brain activity of a fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4243\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pasted-image-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4243\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4243\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pasted-image-0-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The images shows timing maps of neural activity throughout the entire central nervous system of a Drosophila larva during fictive backward (left) and forward (right) crawling. (Credit: Kristin Branson, William Lemon and Philipp Keller, HHMIJanelia Research Campus.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pasted-image-0-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pasted-image-0-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pasted-image-0-268x268.jpg 268w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pasted-image-0.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The images shows timing maps of neural activity throughout the entire central nervous system of a Drosophila larva during fictive backward (left) and forward (right) crawling. (Credit: Kristin Branson, William Lemon and Philipp Keller, HHMIJanelia Research Campus.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using imaging technology together with technology for detecting neuronal activity from specific groups of cells, a team of researchers has been able to \u201cfilm\u201d the activity of the entire central nervous system of a developing fly, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drosophila melanogaster.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This type of methodology is expected to help advance the understanding of the neuronal networks that dictate animal behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2015\/150811\/ncomms8924\/full\/ncomms8924.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philipp Keller, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using imaging technology together with technology for detecting neuronal activity from specific groups of cells, a team of researchers has been able to \u201cfilm\u201d the activity of the entire central nervous system of a developing fly, Drosophila melanogaster. This type of methodology is expected to help advance the understanding of the neuronal networks that dictate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,200],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-neurology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pasted-image-0.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}