MBON screen progress 19.06.2026

on Monday, June 22nd, 2026 12:15 | by Fridrik Kjartansson

MBON screen of MB399 for MBON02, MB050B for MBON15, MB027B for MBON17 all crossed with TnTe and WTB x TnTe for the negative control. Flies are tethered in torque meter and one turning domain is punished with a hot laser invisible to the fly. Each turning domain is also associated with an arena color. The lights are turned off at the last two periods. Wild type flies fail to learn to avoid the punished domain after the training periods in these conditions. A positive PI-score in the 12th period indicates that the fly learned.

Category: flight, Habit formation, MBON, MBON, Memory, Mushroom Body, Operant learning, Operant reinforcment, operant self-learning, World learning

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