This federal Project Grant award of $278,200.00 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (CFDA 93.372) program supports research to elucidate the neural basis and functional role of rapid turns, known as "body saccades", during olfactory search behavior in flies. The primary awardee, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is conducting...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) a $722,625 Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372) program. The grant supports a 2-year research project to explore the neural circuits and mechanisms of internal state-dependent modulation of taste-temperature sensory integration in the fruit fly Drosophila. By leveraging...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173), provides $102,528 to Yale University to investigate how temperature impacts olfactory processing in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The award aims to uncover the cellular, synaptic, and circuit-level mechanisms through which dedicated thermosensory processing interacts...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $345,702 to Vanderbilt University to study the cellular and circuit bases of motor control for active sensation. The goal is to reveal mechanisms of motor control for sensation at the cellular and circuit levels, using fruit flies as a model system. Key objectives include...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), supports research to uncover principles of sensory processing in the olfactory system. The $502,742 award to Duke University will leverage innovative techniques like optogenetics to record from hundreds of neurons in the piriform cortex of awake, head-fixed mice. The research aims to test...
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $708,327 Project Grant (CFDA 93.213 - Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health) to the University of Illinois. The grant, titled "CRCNS: MULTIMODAL NETWORK INTERACTIONS FOR INTERNAL STATE DYNAMICS OF RESILIENCY", will fund research to unravel the complex mechanisms underlying individual resilience to stress. The research will utilize a...
This federal Project Grant award of $579,101 was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The funding will support research at the University of Washington to investigate the role of specialized proprioceptive organs called "hair plates" in limb sensorimotor control in fruit flies. The goal is to leverage tools available in fruit flies...
This $1,836,842 Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will support research into sensory-motor strategies for odor-guided navigation. Funded under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program, the Trustees of Boston University will conduct research to better understand how spatial information is encoded in the olfactory bulb during odor-guided search behaviors in mice. Researchers will use new imaging tools to...
This three-year, $4.93 million project grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse will fund research into odor trail tracking behavior in mice. The grant supports three principal investigators at Harvard University who will study the algorithms and neural circuits underlying active sensation and continuous decision-making during this olfactory navigation behavior. The researchers will use behavioral, physiological, molecular and computational methods across three aims. In Aim 1, they will...
This $1,414,816 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the functional stratification of sensory encoding in the biological gyroscope of flying insects. Specifically, the grant funds work at Princeton University from January 2022 through July 2024 to reveal the principles of sensory encoding and sensorimotor processing that flies use to control their halteres and aerial maneuvers. The research will combine in vivo imaging and analysis approaches from computational...