3D Behavior Recording for Free-Behaving Fruit Fly
A fruit fly displays special standing
Project Overview
The project aims for the development of equipment for adaptive recording and analysis of 3D behavior in the free-behaving fruit fly.
Motivation
How to improve the resolution for behavior recording is an important problem in systems neuroscience. To address this question, we plan to build equipment to track the free-behaving animals. This could be used for behavioral analysis and optical stimulation in brain areas.
Key Findings
Compared to the head-injured or restricted state under which many behavior experiments are performed, fruit fly display lots of behaviors that are not even observed when they are head-fixed, such as special standing and rolling. The existing results have shown that our equipment is valuable.
Technical Details
The system enables high-resolution 3D tracking of free-behaving fruit flies, capturing behaviors that cannot be observed in head-fixed preparations. This opens new possibilities for studying natural behaviors and their neural correlates.