Sterne Lab
Welcome to the Sterne Lab
The overarching goal of the Sterne Lab is to understand the neural circuit mechanisms that generate and shape complex feeding behaviors. To survive, animals must successfully derive energy from their environments. Moment to moment control of feeding requires the synthesis of diverse and sometimes conflicting inputs, including external sensory information, internal state, and experience. The most salient features of these diverse inputs must be translated into neural activity and processed by circuits that select and shape sequenced and rhythmic feeding motor programs. Furthermore, feeding experiences must be remembered to instruct future behavior. While disordered feeding is the cause of many human health conditions, the circuit mechanisms that give rise properly timed, coordinated, and rhythmic feeding behaviors and translate feeding experiences into memory are not well understood.
Gabriella R. Sterne, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Publications
View All Publications- A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing.; Nature; Vol 634(8032), pp. 210-219. 2024 Oct 02.
- Neural circuit mechanisms underlying context-specific halting in Drosophila.; Nature; Vol 634(8032), pp. 191-200. 2024 Oct 02.
- The Drosophila homolog of APP promotes Dscam expression to drive axon terminal growth, revealing interaction between Down syndrome genes.; Disease models & mechanisms; Vol 16(9). 2023 Sep 15.
- Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing quantifies circuit stereotypy in Drosophila.; bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2023 Jul 15.
News
Affiliations
December 4, 2024
Jonathan Williams Receives a Neuroscience Poster Award
October 11, 2024
How a map of a fruit fly’s brain could help unlock the mysteries of our own
October 2, 2024
A revolutionary map of the fly brain could change how we study our brains
January 27, 2023
Wiggles & wings: The model systems transforming neuroscience
Contact Us
Sterne Lab
601 Elmwood Ave.
KMRB 2-9639
Rochester, NY 14642