Remote olfactory memories in Drosophila

ALEMAN MATIAS; LOCATELLI, FERNANDO FEDERICO; NICOLAS PIREZ

Congreso; Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Neurociencias; 2022

Sociendad Argentina de Neurociencias

Insects rely on olfaction to find food and mates. The olfactory cues that drive different behaviors are expected to have been determined by evolution and thus the neurobiological mechanisms involved in detectingand encoding relevant odorants are assumed to depend on hardwired circuits. However, it is well established, that learning and memory have a large impact in tuning olfactory guided behaviors. The fly Drosophilamelanogaster is one of the animal models in which the link between olfactory circuits and behavior is best understood. In order to unveil the neural bases of odor guided behavior, big efforts are made to identifyattractive, aversive and neutral odorants. The goals of this project are to establish a simple method that would allow us to measure innate and acquired odor attractiveness and to evaluate how exposure to anodorant during development alters the preference for that odorant during adulthood.