The Crickmore lab

The most important discoveries from our lab (I think):

• Eruptions are like action potentials for networks. (webpage) (Thornquist, Pitsch; Molecular Cell 2021)

• Motivation biases outcomes of all-to-all competition between behaviors. (Thornquist; bioRxiv)

• In juveniles, mating circuitry is functional but motivation is suppressed. (webpage) (Zhang; Science Advances 2021)

• Time itself is used to organize behavior over minutes. CaMKII is the first interval timer. (webpage) (Thornquist; Neuron 2020)

• Why prior motivation is required for enduring satiety. (webpage) (Zhang; Current Biology 2019)

• Motivational signals bias chance neuronal events to promote behavior. (webpage) (Zhang; Neuron 2018)

• A dopaminergic motivational cue transforms perception into conception. (webpage) (Zhang; Neuron 2016)

• Sexual behaviors in the fly are under motivational control. (webpage) (Crickmore; Cell 2013)