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Bruno van Swinderen

Bruno van Swinderen

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6052
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National Ranking
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Overview

Bruno van Swinderen is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia, specializing in Neuroscience with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and the endocrine and autonomic systems. Their research spans a variety of subfields including genetics and developmental neuroscience.

The main topics of their work cover neurobiology and insect physiology, circadian rhythms and melatonin, sleep and wakefulness, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as insect and arachnid ecology and behavior.

Van Swinderen has contributed extensively to academic literature, with a significant number of publications appearing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Current Biology, PLoS Biology, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Cold Spring Harbor Protocols.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by van Swinderen include:

  • A deep sleep stage in Drosophila with a functional role in waste clearance, 2021, Science Advances
  • A Paradoxical Kind of Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster, 2020, Current Biology
  • Integrated information structure collapses with anesthetic loss of conscious arousal in Drosophila melanogaster, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Down-regulation of a cytokine secreted from peripheral fat bodies improves visual attention while reducing sleep in Drosophila, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • Perceptual rivalry across animal species, 2020, The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Frequent collaborators in van Swinderen's work include Matthew N. Van De Poll, Paul J. Shaw, Lucy A.L. Tainton-Heap, Adam Hines, and Leonie Kirszenblat.

Best Publications

  • Dopaminergic Modulation of Arousal in Drosophila

    Rozi Andretic;Bruno van Swinderen;Ralph J. Greenspan

  • Electrophysiological correlates of rest and activity in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Douglas A Nitz;Bruno van Swinderen;Giulio Tononi;Ralph J Greenspan

  • A dynamic deep sleep stage in Drosophila.

    Bart van Alphen;Melvyn H.W. Yap;Leonie Kirszenblat;Benjamin Kottler

  • Salience modulates 20–30 Hz brain activity in Drosophila

    Bruno van Swinderen;Ralph J Greenspan

  • Sleep Restores Behavioral Plasticity to Drosophila Mutants

    Stephane Dissel;Veena Angadi;Leonie Kirszenblat;Yasuko Suzuki

  • FicTrac: a visual method for tracking spherical motion and generating fictive animal paths.

    Richard J.D. Moore;Gavin J. Taylor;Angelique C. Paulk;Thomas Pearson

  • Dopamine in Drosophila: setting arousal thresholds in a miniature brain

    Bruno Van Swinderen;Rozi Andretic

  • Oscillatory brain activity in spontaneous and induced sleep stages in flies

    Melvyn H. W. Yap;Martyna J. Grabowska;Chelsie Rohrscheib;Rhiannon Jeans

  • Attention-like processes in Drosophila require short-term memory genes.

    Bruno van Swinderen

  • A Neomorphic Syntaxin Mutation Blocks Volatile-Anesthetic Action in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Bruno van Swinderen;Owais Saifee;Laynie Shebester;Russell Roberson

  • Selective attention in the honeybee optic lobes precedes behavioral choices

    Angelique C. Paulk;Jacqueline A. Stacey;Thomas W. J. Pearson;Gavin J. Taylor

  • The Yin and Yang of Sleep and Attention

    Leonie Kirszenblat;Bruno van Swinderen

  • The remote roots of consciousness in fruit-fly selective attention?

    Bruno van Swinderen

  • Shared visual attention and memory systems in the Drosophila brain

    Bruno van Swinderen;Bruno van Swinderen;Amber McCartney;Sarah Kauffman;Kris Flores

  • Vision in Drosophila: seeing the world through a model's eyes

    Angelique Paulk;S. Sean Millard;Bruno van Swinderen

  • Cognitive consonance: complex brain functions in the fruit fly and its relatives

    Ralph J. Greenspan;Bruno van Swinderen

  • A deep sleep stage in Drosophila with a functional role in waste clearance.

    Bart van Alphen;Evan R. Semenza;Melvyn Yap;Bruno van Swinderen

  • Drosophila strategies to study psychiatric disorders

    Bart van Alphen;Bruno van Swinderen

  • A Paradoxical Kind of Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Lucy A.L. Tainton-Heap;Leonie C. Kirszenblat;Eleni T. Notaras;Martyna J. Grabowska

  • Flux of signalling endosomes undergoing axonal retrograde transport is encoded by presynaptic activity and TrkB.

    Tong Wang;Sally Martin;Tam H. Nguyen;Callista B. Harper

  • Attention-Like Deficit and Hyperactivity in a Drosophila Memory Mutant

    Bruno van Swinderen;Bjoern Brembs

  • Closed-loop behavioral control increases coherence in the fly brain

    Angelique C. Paulk;Leonie Kirszenblat;Yanqiong Zhou;Bruno van Swinderen

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Shaw
Paul J. Shaw Washington University in St. Louis
Justin J. Cooper-White
Justin J. Cooper-White University of Queensland
Darryl W. Eyles
Darryl W. Eyles University of Queensland
Shaun P. Collin
Shaun P. Collin La Trobe University
Geoffrey J. Goodhill
Geoffrey J. Goodhill Washington University in St. Louis
David A. Leopold
David A. Leopold National Institutes of Health
James M. Cheverud
James M. Cheverud Loyola University Chicago
Douglas A. Nitz
Douglas A. Nitz University of California, San Diego
Harold L. Atwood
Harold L. Atwood University of Toronto
Thomas E. Johnson
Thomas E. Johnson University of Colorado Boulder

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