Drosophila facility researchers
The Drosophila/fly research community in Sheffield comprises over thirty researchers across seven research groups and is supported by a team of three technical staff.
Research groups
Working on: Cell plasticity in Development and Disease
Working on: Using Drosophila to study macrophage behaviour.
Working on: Neural processing, particularly in the visual system of Drosophila. Efficient codes and circuitry, form-function relationships, attention, learning and memory.
Working on: Sensory coding, synaptic plasticity, learning and memory in the Drosophila olfactory system.
Working on: Why and how all life slowly deteriorates to eventually cause death.
We focus on the mortality response to dietary restriction and how mortality risk increases with age.
Working on: Drosophila Cell Polarity.
Working on: Molecular Mechanisms of Frontotemporal Dementia, Motor Neuron Disease and Parkinson’s