Exploring the dynamics and structure of the auditory system in fruit flies

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25710001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Neurophysiology / General neuroscience
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Kamikouchi Azusa 名古屋大学, 理学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (00525264)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 聴覚情報処理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To explore the neural mechanism how the brain discriminates acoustic information, we have been using the fruit fly as an excellent model animal. To further develop the research of the auditory system using fruit flies, we mapped the auditory neural circuit in the fly brain at the single-cell level. By doing so we established a comprehensive map of the central auditory neural circuits, which would serve a basic knowledge to analyze the mechanism of auditory information processing in the brain in general.

Free Research Field

neuroscience