• Neuroscience

Publications:

Huang Y, Dulanjana M. Perera, Lizzy Olsen, Ankura Sitaula, Parinita Mitchelle Mandhyan, Sara Arredondo-Miramontes, Nathan Byrd, Xuan Tung Le, Isuru S. Godage, Zarin AA (2024). A dedicated premotor circuit drives forward locomotion-specific protopodium movement in Drosophila larvae. Under review in Nature Communications

Sitaula, A., Huang, Y. and Zarin, A. (2024). Application of a Dual Optogenetic Silencing-Activation Protocol to Map Motor Neurons Driving Rolling Escape Behavior in Drosophila Larvae. Bio-protocol 14(23): e5131. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.5131.

Cooney, Patricia C., et al. “Neuromuscular basis of Drosophila larval rolling escape behavior.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120.51 (2023): e2303641120.

Presentations:

SPRC 2025 12 min oral presentation

Oral presentation, Neural control of swing and stance phases of foot-like structures during Drosophila larval locomotion. Texas A&M Biology Department Seminar Series, 2024

Poster presentation, “Neural control of swing and stance phases of foot-like structures during Drosophila
larval locomotion”, Student and Postdoc Research Conference (SPRC) of Biology Department, Texas A&M University, 2024. 2nd place poster award ($500)