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Image of reward DANs in the fly brain stained green (created from data in the FlyLight database). https://devinenilab.org/news/trinity-defense-halloween monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1762031859347-STJVKKEN4FSY4R6LHARN/1.jpeg News - Trinity’s defense and lab Halloween party - Trinity's thesis defense https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1762031859568-CS6D76HY4TBJEC7RWPYA/2.jpeg News - Trinity’s defense and lab Halloween party - pumpkin painting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1762031862906-9E8N670ZNVDG88NIBBAV/3.jpeg News - Trinity’s defense and lab Halloween party - our array of (mostly fly-themed) pumpkins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1762031863329-UHOXTIPINBTVJ5MEI7WG/4.jpeg News - Trinity’s defense and lab Halloween party - finished pumpkins https://devinenilab.org/news/cshl-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1762030983465-TYX5VVT27IHHOSLMQUSC/1.jpeg News - CSHL Dros Neuro meeting - at Yuzhen's poster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1762030983558-KLK24MRPXLB3D4TQM6QQ/2.jpeg News - CSHL Dros Neuro meeting - lobster banquet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1762030987447-XT66XVH3WN6K9GUWM4US/3.jpeg News - CSHL Dros Neuro meeting - CSHL swag https://devinenilab.org/news/elle-f31 monthly 0.5 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/9b93e829-dbd3-46d7-b840-890960ac750e/elle+mccall.jpeg News - Elle gets an F31! https://devinenilab.org/news/bootcamp-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1756572681804-QGHJWY6O6LBZ6EFY9WLD/IMG_1086.jpg News - First year bootcamp - learning the calcium imaging prep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1756572752420-WG03S13SCJHMSYMNY1HA/IMG_1085.jpg News - First year bootcamp - checking out the two-photon setup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1756572645383-EDJLBPRV80Z8TD0E0VOA/IMG_9480.jpg News - First year bootcamp - GCaMP responses! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1756572673557-1323XYBR6AK54MYIHK1T/IMG_1081.jpg News - First year bootcamp - learning about feeding circuits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1756572686067-ZHGFPLLAD1FAMB1CCFD9/IMG_1091.jpg News - First year bootcamp - prepping flies for optogenetics and behavior https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1756572681748-EB358SO1NEP7AUYL4I95/IMG_1088.jpg News - First year bootcamp - setting up optogenetic experiments https://devinenilab.org/news/new-preprint-may-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/a9c40d03-1120-472e-a8a7-cfe90fbad0db/PAM+DANs+58E02.png News - New preprint on the function of dopamine reward neurons Image of reward DANs in the fly brain stained green (created from data in the FlyLight database). https://devinenilab.org/news/end-of-school-year-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1747184474072-317LPJQ75COMYY6D5AU6/end%2Bof%2Byear%2Bparty%2Bapril%2B2025.jpg News - End of the year celebrations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1747184010506-42GM3GH64CSHH05JRGC8/honors%2Bceremony.jpg News - End of the year celebrations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1747184075721-DPHSW06AP25DGSJQ4EHW/graduation.jpg News - End of the year celebrations https://devinenilab.org/news/undergrad-honors-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/a5aa965a-9584-4de1-a5c4-b1665c4b4617/anna+honors.jpeg News - Undergraduate honors defenses (2025) - Anna’s thesis project investigated which neurons in the sugar taste pathway are involved in modulating future feeding responses to water. She has a great set of data that we hope to include in a paper soon. In the meantime, she will be starting her PhD at UNC this fall!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/e4672dd8-256c-4330-a0a4-ed37c4b3533c/alex+honors.jpeg News - Undergraduate honors defenses (2025) - Alex’s thesis project examined foraging behavior as a model for decision-making. He has been mentored by Marco Peña Garcia, a PhD student in the lab. Alex will be staying in the lab for about 6 months to finish collecting data for this project while he applies for medical school. https://devinenilab.org/news/stand-up-for-science-march-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://devinenilab.org/news/diversity-jan-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://devinenilab.org/news/connectome-paper-feb-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/c798365f-b3f6-421f-adc7-cc05d974f78f/taste+connectome News - Our taste connectome paper is published! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://devinenilab.org/news/third-year monthly 0.5 2024-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/b4fdfcb8-c708-471f-b343-06473b1d93e6/Screen+Shot+2024-12-31+at+10.26.38+AM.png News - Highlights from our third year - Make it stand out Newly identified taste circuits from our connectome paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1735658352543-C0YZYEGBWELNA9YJKQ4O/summer+party+2024.jpg News - Highlights from our third year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1735658363429-E7WNY49YV5Z9ZMPHZUFU/maia+and+crystal.jpeg News - Highlights from our third year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1735658351106-AOB2Y33WT735MJHMZRBH/pumpkin+party.jpg News - Highlights from our third year https://devinenilab.org/news/flood-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/9384384f-42ea-4722-ac74-0193689bfb4b/IMG-1059.jpg News - Lab flood - Make it stand out Elle came prepared with rain boots! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/0e73e5e3-8f36-49ef-9c7f-d39c86a9c028/IMG-1074.jpg News - Lab flood - Make it stand out Current state of the lab https://devinenilab.org/news/holiday-party-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1734147696377-7JKZ09TGRFRUAO46IMV4/IMG-1047.jpg News - Holiday party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1734147697068-Q20HI7XZYZNWG8TIFI8Z/IMG-1048.jpg News - Holiday party https://devinenilab.org/news/halloween-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1730163950076-HED92147YWWO2LY8WLK6/IMG-0838.jpg News - Halloween pumpkin party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1730163950048-CYSMZYVJFQ0LT1RJXCS4/IMG-0844.jpg News - Halloween pumpkin party https://devinenilab.org/news/connectome-news-and-views monthly 0.5 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/bb0826f5-1009-40b5-95a7-d31a27602578/connectome+brain+pic+2.png News - Nature News and Views on the connectome Image showing some of the neurons in the connectome, courtesy of FlyWire. https://devinenilab.org/news/cell-rep-sept-2024 monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/a9e421fd-4c77-4de2-aa67-02741331eb9f/cell+reports+graphical+abstract.png News - Our paper on the sugar circuit is published in Cell Reports! - Our main takeaways are: 1) neural circuits mediating different innate responses to sugar are partially overlapping and diverge at the second and third layers, 2) neurons in the sugar circuit likely act synergistically to promote downstream activity, and 3) different modulatory factors act at different nodes of the sugar circuit to modulate behavior. We think this study not only provides new insight into sweet taste processing, but also reveals more general principles of how neural circuits are organized. https://devinenilab.org/news/new-preprint-sept-2024 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/dafa5542-2bdc-4f08-a0a5-1c588342f7ca/GRNs+and+2Ns.png News - New preprint on connectomic analysis of taste circuits - We then asked at what point the sweet taste circuit diverges into different pathways that drive distinct behaviors. By individually manipulating interneurons in the sugar circuit, we show that circuits mediating different innate responses to sugar begin to diverge at the level of second- and third-order neurons, whereas circuits for innate versus learned behaviors likely diverge at the first synapse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/d7351da8-58dc-49d2-8e1b-83cb44ee00d6/3Ns.png News - New preprint on connectomic analysis of taste circuits - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://devinenilab.org/news/summer-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/6ca741a8-36ea-4d0b-a00a-ca045a18d7ae/SOAR+poster.jpg News - Summer happenings - Our LGS-SOAR summer student, Joyce Yeo, presented a great poster on her summer project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/939cf1e2-e97b-409a-8e93-35335562a13c/summer+party.jpeg News - Summer happenings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://devinenilab.org/news/lab-party-april-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1713319322218-WDZ3RU8UAFX3E0JBP0GM/IMG-8122.jpeg News - End of the year party - semi-group photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1713319321465-IA9FCVSKPF1UDADEPGUR/IMG-8121.jpeg News - End of the year party - decorating fly cookies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1713319321368-W11DBHJZXN7UZXZG2ODX/IMG-8116.jpeg News - End of the year party - goodbye gifts for Crystal and Maia https://devinenilab.org/news/undergrad-honors-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/b68a5913-2de6-40e1-bfdd-0f1df8f70f3f/IMG_8043.jpeg News - Undergraduate honors defenses - Crystal’s thesis project investigated which neurons in the sugar taste pathway are involved in modulating future feeding responses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/9e64a893-4151-43f7-9fa0-b1bf46ea96b8/IMG_8049.jpeg News - Undergraduate honors defenses - Maia’s thesis work characterized how aversive taste experiences modulate future feeding behaviors. https://devinenilab.org/news/spring-2024-meetings monthly 0.5 2024-03-02 https://devinenilab.org/news/second-year monthly 0.5 2024-03-02 https://devinenilab.org/news/holiday-party-2023 monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1702222581093-EGUSL226JI8SSRC8GS29/group.jpeg News - Lab holiday party - Group photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1702222581095-CG8BJ6DHCR9BXV3TWHRV/silly+group.jpeg News - Lab holiday party - Silly group photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1702221434659-6R8HGRZT2K12F6HJ8MFL/flipping+prelims.jpeg News - Lab holiday party - First round of the fly flipping contest! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1702221434660-WFUGM54AXTF25QWTGBH7/flipping+finals.jpeg News - Lab holiday party - Fly flipping championship round! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1702221435796-L6PXNOLB6K7UK5NZTKQS/jeopardy.jpeg News - Lab holiday party - Lab jeopardy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1702221436528-860BO6W4I1UWSUCA2B7P/mug.jpeg News - Lab holiday party - White elephant gifting https://devinenilab.org/news/first-nih-funding monthly 0.5 2025-01-21 https://devinenilab.org/news/new-preprint-oct-2023 monthly 0.5 2024-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/73cbb41a-b56c-43cf-828d-3bccf62affe6/circuit.png News - New preprint on the sugar taste circuit - We then asked at what point the sweet taste circuit diverges into different pathways that drive distinct behaviors. By individually manipulating interneurons in the sugar circuit, we show that circuits mediating different innate responses to sugar begin to diverge at the level of second- and third-order neurons, whereas circuits for innate versus learned behaviors likely diverge at the first synapse. https://devinenilab.org/news/starting-fall-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/e1fae9b4-713f-4dea-a726-e42dcf04880b/IMG_7796.jpg News - Starting the new school year Photo from our end of the summer lunch party. Much sushi was consumed. https://devinenilab.org/news/crystal-yedvobnick-award monthly 0.5 2023-09-23 https://devinenilab.org/news/undergrad-symposium-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/db0b0927-18d0-4ac1-8f00-01ff8ea4c6df/IMG-4946.jpg News - Undergraduate research symposium - Lam Nguyen (Biology, class of 2025) gave a short talk on her project. She got lots of questions! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/899e8b9a-11d7-42cc-8d35-ef7c64a86287/IMG-4949.jpg News - Undergraduate research symposium - Crystal Wang (Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, class of 2024) had a very popular poster at the symposium poster session. She held her own even when bombarded with questions by our department chair! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/16f46279-a0a6-4001-a965-e671edc4d76b/IMG-4950.jpg News - Undergraduate research symposium - Maia Yang (Biology, class of 2024) also had a popular poster with a constant stream of attendees. https://devinenilab.org/news/elife-paper-jan2023 monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/ee702d5e-332d-4ea5-acdd-96c0a81544fa/connectome.png News - eLife paper published - If you’re not ready to read the whole thing, check out this summary that we wrote back when the preprint was first posted. But since then we added a bunch of new data, from new behavioral experiments to connectomic analyses of taste pathways in the higher brain (shown in the picture). We also removed a bunch of data from the original preprint, including everything about the sugar pathway and hunger-dependent modulation. We hope to incorporate this into a future paper, but in the meantime, don’t throw out the first preprint! https://devinenilab.org/news/first-year monthly 0.5 2023-01-25 https://devinenilab.org/news/first-grant monthly 0.5 2022-12-09 https://devinenilab.org/news/taste-modulation-preprint monthly 0.5 2022-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/22fc2d86-c4eb-408c-8cf6-a73e775f94af/plasticity+model++new.png News - New preprint on prolonged taste modulation https://devinenilab.org/news/first-lab-party monthly 0.5 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/75ed90d5-17dc-4886-931c-7ffc089252dc/lab+party.jpeg News - First lab party - From left: Rowan (PAC lab), Eden (PAC lab), Kaushiki, Megan (PAC lab), Crystal, Anita, Chris (PAC lab), Michael, Taylor. Not pictured: Arvin (photographer) and Deepti https://devinenilab.org/news/first-lab-members monthly 0.5 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/74b0a18b-1bb2-4889-a596-a15edc9400d9/arena.jpg News - First lab members and data! - Our first behavioral setup is up and running! We use this setup to film flies’ locomotor patterns and spatial preference as we optogenetically activate different types of neurons with red light. See our recent preprint to learn more. Crystal and Kaushiki ran our very first experiments last week, which fortunately replicated the results in the manuscript collected in Anita’s postdoc lab (phew!). https://devinenilab.org/news/new-preprint-feb2022 monthly 0.5 2022-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/5546c188-c653-46dc-9222-e98d32eb6ec3/trans+tango.jpg News - New preprint on bioRxiv - Make it stand out Labeling of neurons that are postsynaptic to different types of bitter-sensing cells, termed “second-order” bitter neurons. https://devinenilab.org/news/moved-in monthly 0.5 2022-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/e108281e-653a-4488-adf3-673d308e7bf1/IMG-2593.jpg News - We’ve moved in! - The Devineni lab now exists in physical space! We’ve moved into a temporary location on the first floor of the Rollins Research Center while our permanent lab space is being renovated. We have lots of boxes to unpack and new colleagues to meet! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/619949b7-e313-425e-ad47-3c7c165b7fb1/IMG-2590.jpg News - We’ve moved in! - Currently “we” is just Anita and the lab’s 607 fly stocks, who all survived a 2 day drive from New York in a Penske rental truck. The flies got VIP treatment as they got to ride up front and sleep overnight in the hotel (so they wouldn’t freeze). We hope to have some new lab members joining soon! If you’re interested in working with us, learn more here about open positions. https://devinenilab.org/news/off-response-paper-published-in-current-biology monthly 0.5 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1635899882233-3M9GMJ8MSUPR6NOR5UAT/Devineni+Curr+Biol.jpg News - OFF response paper published in Current Biology - Dr. Devineni’s postdoctoral study on temporal dynamics in the fly taste system was published today in Current Biology! This work was conducted at Columbia University with the help of two awesome former technicians, Julia Deere (now a PhD student at Rockefeller) and Christina Sun (now a medical student in the Sackler / Tel Aviv medical program). Update: you can read a nice summary of the paper here by Marco Gallio and colleagues. https://devinenilab.org/news/presenting-at-sfn-virtual monthly 0.5 2021-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1635561296561-NWB016BNWNPIHAML1PVR/SFN+graphic.jpg News - Presenting at Virtual SFN - Dr. Devineni will be presenting a virtual poster at the SFN meeting (November 8-11) entitled “Integration and segregated processing in the Drosophila taste circuit”. https://devinenilab.org/news/presenting-at-neurobiology-of-drosophila-conference monthly 0.5 2021-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6133c4bd8fadf32ab07feea8/1632612784150-DVOYDZY3CIILF4P8K3JE/neurobiology+of+drosophila.jpg News - Presenting at Neurobiology of Drosophila conference - Dr. Devineni will be presenting new, never-before-seen data on Drosophila taste processing at the virtual Neurobiology of Drosophila conference. 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