Susana Lima

Fellow

Research Interests

Research in my laboratory will focus on the neural mechanism underlying mate preference an sexual selection.To address this question, we use rodents as model system and we will investigate the properties of candidate brain regions by measuring and perturbing their activity in behaving animals, using behavioral, electrophysiological and molecular tools.

Publications

Ng M, Roorda RD, Lima SQ, Zemelman BV, Morcillo P, Miesenbock G.
(2002) Transmission of olfactory information between three populations of neurons in the antennal lobe of the fly.
Neuron 36:463 – 74

Lima SQ and Miesenbock G.
(2005) Remote control of fly behavior through genetically targeted photostimulation of neurons.
Cell 121 (1): 141 – 52

Lima SQ, Hromadka T, Zador AM.
In vivo electrophysiological identification of Channelrhodopsin2-tagged neuronal subpopulations.
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