Gaby Maimon named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant Ten”
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 11:50
in Biology & Nature
The honor recognizes Maimon’s development of a technique to monitor electrical activity in individual neurons as fruit flies navigate a virtual world in “tethered flight.” Maimon’s platform provides a bridge to link genes, through the electrical activity of neurons, to fly behavior. In his system, flies are attached to a small plate where they can flap their wings in “tethered flight.” More »