On smelling your way to the fruit with ring models - with Katherine Nagel - #40

Fruit flies need a short-term (working) memory to keep their direction when they navigate their way to the fruit by smelling.

Mean-field ring models was theoretically suggested to encode stimulus orientations 30 years and was observed in fruit-fly compass neurons 10 years ago. But how does odor input come into the picture to set the compass course?  

The group of the guest has studied the question with a host of different experimental and theoretical methods.