Scientists have traced distinct circuits of neurons through the fly brain, shown here in different colors. (Photo: Tyler Sloan and Amy Sterling for FlyWire Princeton University)

(OCTOBER 3, 2024) The Washington Post reported on the successful mapping of the entire brain of Drosophila melanogaster, more commonly known as the fruit fly, by a team of scientists that included Davi Bock, Ph.D., associate professor of neurological sciences at UVM’s Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine. The mapping began in 2013, when Bock was a neuroscientist at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia; he joined UVM as a research associate professor in 2019.

Science Alert titled its article about this research “This Map of Every Neuron in an Adult Fly Brain Could Be Nobel Prize worthy.”

Other media outlets that have covered this work to date include:

AZoLifeSciences
Biotenicka
Daily Mail
Discover Magazine
EurekAlert
Health Reporter News
IFLScience
India Network News
Lab Manager
MedicalXpress
Mirage News
Nature
NeuroscienceNews
New York Times
Phys.org (10/6/24)
Phys.org (10/2/24)
Princeton University News
Rutland Herald
ScienceAlert – “This Map of Every Neuron in an Adult Fly Brain Could Be Nobel Prize Worthy”
ScienceDaily
Scientific American
SciTechDaily (10/2/24)
SciTechDaily (10/5/24)
Sky News
(Barre-Montpelier) Times Argus
Top Buzz Times
UC Berkeley News
UK Research and Innovation
UKRI MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom
VermontBiz
Washington Post
WCAX-TV