The RobustCircuit Consortium has started into its new funding period (2026-2030) with a series of new findings on the roles of noisy mechanisms that aid robustness from molecular to cellular…

Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster. Andriatsilavo M, Barata C, Reifenstein E, Dumoulin A, Tao Griffin T, Dutta SB, Stoeckli ET, von…

Impact of developmental temperature on neural growth, connectivity and function Pascal Züfle, Leticia L. Batista, Sofia C. Brandão, Giovanni D’Uva, Christian Daniel and Carlotta Martelli Environmental temperature dictates the developmental…

2025 Jan 2;16(1):271. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55382-9. Blobby is a synaptic active zone assembly protein required for memory in Drosophila J Lützkendorf , T Matkovic-Rachid , S Liu, T Götz , L Gao, O Turrel, M Maglione, M Grieger  S Putignano, N Ramesh, T Ghelani , A…

Nature. 2024 Oct;634(8032):181-190. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07967-z. Connectomic reconstruction predicts visual features used for navigation. Garner D, Kind E, Lai JYH, Nern A, Zhao A, Houghton L, Sancer G, Wolff T, Rubin…

The labs of Susanne Schreiber and Carsten Duch just reported their progress in figuring out the role of noisy electrical coupling for robust flight pattern generation in Drosophila. The work…