Neuronal circuits and behavior

Image de titre : Chant de parade nuptiale du mâle (courbe bleue) et chant d’accouplement de la femelle (courbe magenta) chez la Drosophila. Les neurones reconstitués du cordon nerveux ventral de la mouche, impliqués dans le comportement de signalisation acoustique, sont représentés ci-dessous.

Les animaux et leur système nerveux ont évolué pour assurer la reproduction. Bien que chaque espèce ait des modes de parade nuptiale et d’accouplement différents, certains mécanismes communs sont conservés : la manière dont le système nerveux met en œuvre les différences entre les sexes au cours du développement, organise les séquences d’actions, code l’approche et la récompense, et communique lors des interactions sociales. Nous utilisons la mouche à fruits Drosophila melanogaster, chez laquelle nous pouvons manipuler l’action des gènes ainsi que le développement et l’activité des neurones à l’aide d’outils génétiques avancés, afin d’aborder des questions fondamentales concernant les circuits neuronaux orchestrant le comportement reproductif.

Nous nous concentrons sur les circuits responsables de la génération des schémas moteurs et sur l’architecture des réseaux neuromusculaires, ainsi que sur les mécanismes de coordination d’ordre supérieur des comportements moteurs complexes et des séquences comportementales. De plus, nous nous intéressons à la communication entre le système nerveux et le reste du corps. Nous étudions la signalisation inter-organes dans le contexte du comportement sexuel pendant l’accouplement et cherchons à comprendre comment la détection du liquide séminal influence le comportement sexuel des femelles et comment les signaux émis par les femelles affectent la distribution du liquide séminal chez les mâles.

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Projets

Acoustic communication during Drosophila reproduction

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Behavioral hierarchy and coordination- state dependent action selection

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Communication between the nervous system and reproductive organs: genes, pathways and circuits for sensing and allocating ejaculate components

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Mechanisms of sex specific motor pattern generation during acoustic communication

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Publications

Abdominal-B regulates the male seminal fluid transferome and new female fecundity factors required for sperm sex peptide binding
Kathrin Steck, Lina Verbakel, Peter Kerwin, Vladimir Trajanovikj, Katarzyna Kjoege, Katarzyna Kjøge, Jan J Enghild, Jan J. Enghild, Anne C. von Philipsborn, (2026) | Prépublication

Correlated Gene Copy Number Changes in a Seminal Fluid Protein Network in Drosophila
J.A. Carlisle, B.K. McCormick, L. Verbakel, A.C. von Philipsborn, M.F. Wolfner, A.G. Clark, (2025) | Prépublication

Dual-color optical activation and suppression of neurons with high temporal precision
Noëmie Mermet-Joret, Andrea Moreno, Agnieszka Zbela, Milad Nazari, Bárður Eyjólfsson Ellendersen, Raquel Comaposada Baro, Nathalie Krauth, Anne von Philipsborn, Andreas Toft Sørensen, Joaquin Piriz, John Yu-luen Lin, Sadegh Nabavi, eLife (2025) | Article

Dual-color optical activation and suppression of neurons with high temporal precision
Noëmie Mermet-Joret, Andrea Moreno, Agnieszka Zbela, Milad Nazari, Bárður Eyjólfsson Ellendersen, Raquel Comaposada Baro, Nathalie Krauth, Anne von Philipsborn, Andreas Toft Sørensen, Joaquin Piriz, John Yu-luen Lin, Sadegh Nabavi, eLife (2025) | Article

Titin-dependent biomechanical feedback tailors sarcomeres to specialized muscle functions in insects
Jean-Francois Rupprecht, Bianca Habermann, Wouter Koolhaas, Aditya Aniruddha Sane, Stefanie Reiter, Pierre Mangeol, Nicolas Brouilly, Sabina Avosani, Frank Schnorrer, Pitaval, Anne C. von Philipsborn, Paul DE BOISSIER, Eunice Ho-Yee Chan, Dirk Görlich, Nuno Miguel Luis, Vincent Loreau, Science Advances (2025) | Article

Reproductive behavior: Decrypting cryptic female choice
Anne C. von Philipsborn, Current Biology (2024) | Article

Titin-dependent biomechanical feedback tailors sarcomeres to specialised muscle functions in insects
Vincent Loreau, Wouter Koolhaas, Eunice HoYee Chan, Paul De Boissier, Nicolas Brouilly, Sabina Avosani, Aditya Aniruddha Sane, Christophe Pitaval, Stefanie Reiter, Nuno Miguel Luis, Pierre Mangeol, Anne C. von Philipsborn, Jean-Francois Rupprecht, Dirk Görlich, Bianca Habermann, Frank Schnorrer, (2024) | Prépublication

GABAergic signaling shapes multiple aspects of Drosophila courtship motor behavior
Hoger Amin, Stella S. Nolte, Bijayalaxmi Swain, Anne C. von Philipsborn, iScience (2023) | Article

Dual-color optical activation and suppression of neurons with high temporal precision
Noëmie Mermet-Joret, Andrea Moreno, Agnieszka Zbela, Bárður Eyjólfsson Ellendersen, Nathalie Krauth, Anne von Philipsborn, Joaquin Piriz, John Y. Lin, Sadegh Nabavi, (2023) | Article

Courtship Conditioning/Suppression Assays in Drosophila
von Philipsborn AC, Shohat-Ophir G, Rezaval C, Cold Spring Harbor protocols (2023) | Article

Female Fly Postmating Behaviors
von Philipsborn AC, Shohat-Ophir G, Rezaval C, Cold Spring Harbor protocols (2023) | Article

Measurement of Drosophila Reproductive Behaviors
von Philipsborn AC, Shohat-Ophir G, Rezaval C, Cold Spring Harbor protocols (2023) | Article

Probing Acoustic Communication during Fly Reproductive Behaviors
von Philipsborn AC, Shohat-Ophir G, Rezaval C, Cold Spring Harbor protocols (2023) | Article

Single-Pair Courtship and Competition Assays in Drosophila
von Philipsborn AC, Shohat-Ophir G, Rezaval C, Cold Spring Harbor protocols (2023) | Article

GABAergic signaling shapes multiple aspects ofDrosophilacourtship motor behavior
Hoger Amin, Stella S. Nolte, Bijayalaxmi Swain, Anne C. von Philipsborn, (2023) | Prépublication

Dual-color optical activation and suppression of neurons with high temporal precision
Mermet-Joret, Noëmie and Moreno, Andrea and Zbela, Agnieszka and Ellendersen, Bárur Eyjólfsson and Krauth, Nathalie and von Philipsborn, Anne and Piriz, Joaquin and Lin, John Y. and Nabavi, Sadegh, bioRxiv (2021) | Article

Sound production in Drosophila melanogaster: Behaviour and neurobiology , in Advances in Insect Physiology
Bijayalaxmi Swain and Anne C. von Philipsborn (Elsevier, 2021) | Chapitre de livre

Copulation Song in Drosophila: Do Females Sing to Change Male Ejaculate Allocation and Incite Postcopulatory Mate Choice?
Peter Kerwin, Anne C. Philipsborn, Anne C. von Philipsborn, BioEssays (2020) | Article

Female copulation song is modulated by seminal fluid
Peter Kerwin, Jiasheng Yuan, Anne C. von Philipsborn, Nature Communications (2020) | Article

Neuroscience: The Female Art of Saying No
von Philipsborn, A.C., Current Biology (2020) | Article

Reward foraging task and model-based analysis reveal how fruit flies learn value of available options
Seidenbecher, S.E. and Sanders, J.I. and von Philipsborn, A.C. and Kvitsiani, D., PLoS ONE (2020) | Article

Foraging fruit flies mix navigational and learning-based decision-making strategies
Sophie E. Seidenbecher and Joshua I. Sanders and Anne C. von Philipsborn and Duda Kvitsiani, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2019) | Autre

Multifunctional Wing Motor Control of Song and Flight
Angela O’Sullivan and Theodore Lindsay and Anna Prudnikova and Balazs Erdi and Michael Dickinson and Anne C. von Philipsborn, Current Biology (2018) | Article

Neurobiology , in Insect behavior From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences
(2018) | Chapitre de livre

Ephrin-A/EphA specific co-adaptation as a novel mechanism in topographic axon guidance
Felix Fiederling and Markus Weschenfelder and Martin Fritz and Anne von Philipsborn and Martin Bastmeyer and Franco Weth, eLife (2017) | Article

Editorial overview: Recent advances in insect neuroethology: from sensory processing to circuits controlling internal states
Heinze, S. and von Philipsborn, A.C., Current Opinion in Insect Science (2017) | Article

Neuronal modulation of D. melanogaster sexual behaviour
Ellendersen, B.E. and von Philipsborn, A.C., Current Opinion in Insect Science (2017) | Article

Cellular and Behavioral Functions of fruitless Isoforms in Drosophila Courtship
von Philipsborn, A. C. and Jörchel, S. and Tirian, L. and Demir, E. and Morita, T. and Stern, D. L. and Dickson, B. J., Curr Biol (2014) | Article

Neuronal Control of Drosophila Courtship Song
von Philipsborn, Anne C. and Liu, Tianxiao and Yu, Jai Y. and Masser, Christopher and Bidaye, Salil S. and Dickson, Barry J., Neuron (2011) | Article

Structure and functional relevance of the Slit2 homodimerization domain
Seiradake, Elena and von Philipsborn, Anne C. and Henry, Maud and Fritz, Martin and Lortat-Jacob, Hugues and Jamin, Marc and Hemrika, Wieger and Bastmeyer, Martin and Cusack, Stephen and McCarthy, AndrewA., Embo Reports (2009) | Article

Growth cone response to ephrin gradients produced by microfluidic networks
Lang, Susanne and von Philipsborn, Anne C. and Bernard, Andre and Bonhoeffer, Friedrich and Bastmeyer, Martin, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2008) | Article

Mechanisms of gradient detection: A comparison of axon pathfinding with eukaryotic cell migration
von Philipsborn, Anne and Bastmeyer, Martin and Jeon, KW, International Review of Cytology - a Survey of Cell Biology, Vol 263 (2007) | Article

Substrate-bound protein gradients for cell culture fabricated by microfluidic networks and microcontact printing
von Philipsborn, A. C. and Lang, S. and Jiang, Z. and Bonhoeffer, F. and Bastmeyer, M., Sci STKE (2007) | Article

Growth cone navigation in substrate-bound ephrin gradients
von Philipsborn, AC and Lang, S and Loeschinger, J and Bernard, A and David, C and Lehnert, D and Bonhoeffer, F and Bastmeyer, M, Development (2006) | Article

Microcontact printing of axon guidance molecules for generation of graded patterns
Von Philipsborn, Anne C. and Lang, Susanne and Bernard, Andre and Loeschinger, Juergen and David, Christian and Lehnert, Dirk and Bastmeyer, Martin and Bonhoeffer, Friedrich, Nature Protocols (2006) | Article

Restricted expression of Reggie genes and proteins during early zebrafish development
von Philipsborn, AC and Ferrer-Vaquer, A and Rivera-Milla, E and Stuermer, CAO and Malaga-Trillo, E, Journal of Comparative Neurology (2005) | Article