Insect sensory ecology, sensorimotor integration and neural basis of decision making.

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Insect neuroscience and VR - studying the behavioural, neural and molecular basis of collective marching and gregarious locust behaviour. 

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Mechanisms of swarm initiation in marching locusts. I combine classic behavioural assays with VR to investigate how solitary individuals become gregarious and initiate swarming. Website: danielecarlesso.com

Motion vision, collective movement, multiunit ephys and VR  

Spatial foraging and social phenotypes in locusts and RATS!

Behavioural plasticity, variation and neurobiology, focusing on individual and population-level traits across phenotypic states

Environmental drivers of locust collective behaviour, linking ecological context to molecular processes underlying swarming.

Locust olfaction: linking starvation and social behaviour and a graphic designer

Locust behaviour and 2 photon functional imaging

Locust neuroscience, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization for activity mapping