Victor Lobato Rios

I'm thrilled to share this story! Flies tend to aggregate, as I’m sure you have experienced in your kitchen. They lay eggs around the same places and form clusters even in the absence of food. But, what happens when they meet other flies for the first time? ...

Conspecific sociability is regulated by associative learning circuits biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Being raised alone makes flies afraid of one another! But exposure to other flies makes them become sociable. @VLobatoRios found and recorded specific learning circuits in the brain that regulate this transition. Read more in our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The lab of @Brainmind_EPFL professor Pavan Ramdya @ramdya reveal how the #Drosophila brain can transform relatively simple neuronal patterns into complex behavioral actions - actu.epfl.ch/news/fruit-fly…

Our study by @jonasfbraun @femke_hurtak @wangchensibo revealing that brain descending neurons form interconnected networks to coordinate motor control is now out in @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158… @EPFL_en @epflSV @Brainmind_EPFL @EDNE_EPFL @EPFL_BioE

If you are headed to @CSHL Neuronal Circuits this week, be sure to check out two exciting projects from the lab: First, on Thursday, Session 1, Poster 76 @MatthiasHenryD will talk about object learning in flies

Second, on Saturday morning, Session 7, 9AM @VLobatoRios will talk about the neural mechanisms of learned sociability. He discovered that animals' default state toward one another is fear. They learn to suppress this fearful response through experience

The Couzin-Fuchs lab is recruiting a PhD student/ PostDoc to join our research on the neural basis of social plasticity in swarm-forming locusts, with @CBehav, @KonstanzNeuro, More details at: couzin-fuchs-lab.com/new-positions

I'm excited to share our (me, @femke_hurtak,@wangchensibo, @ramdya) latest work uncovering how networks of descending neurons transform command-like signals into population-based behavioral control. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/n)

I am looking for an enthusiastic Ph.D. student for a legged robot and manipulation project at my group at KU Leuven, Belgium. Research at the intersection of control and mechanical design. The Ph.D. position is fully funded. Interested? Apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Our latest study illustrates the encoding of dozens of Descending Neurons driving walking and grooming. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

And we are on Twitter! The Doctoral School in Neuroscience @EPFL_en is constantly looking for the brightest young minds interested in studying all things #neuroscience! #PhDposition Check out our website:epfl.ch/education/phd/…

Investigación sobre mosca demuestra la notable utilidad del “Deep Learning” para reconstruir digitalmente a seres vivos facebook.com/aproximacional…

EPFL scientists have developed a digital model of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which realistically simulates the movements of the animal. @epflSV @Brainmind_EPFL  go.epfl.ch/e1700e