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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Locusts neuroscience and decision making models. Combining neural recordings with automated behavioural assays to study decision making in neurons, individual animals and groups

Insect olfaction, calcium imaging of the antennal lobe, behaviour and GIS 

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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!

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

Locust behaviour and 2 photon functional imaging

Nutritional state and social behaviour in locusts, olfactory-guided assays