Lab Publications

Behavioral Analysis of Drosophila

  • Overman, K.E., Choi, D.M., Leung, K., Shaevitz, J.W., and Berman, G.J., "Measuring the repertoire of age-related behavioral changes in Drosophila melanogaster " (In Press at eLife). [Link]
  • Hernandez, D.G., Rivera, C., Cande, J., Zhou, B., Stern, D.L., and Berman, G.J., "A framework for studying behavioral evolution by reconstructing ancestral repertoires" (Under revision, preprint here).
  • Alba, V., Berman, G.J., Bialek, W., and Shaevitz, J.W., "Exploring a strongly non-Markovian animal behavior" (Under revision, preprint here).
  • Ding, Y., Lillvis, J.L., Cande, J., Berman, G.J., Arthur, B.J., Xu, M., Dickson, B.J., and Stern, D.L., "Neural evolution of context-dependent fly song " Current Biology, 7, 2019, 1089-1099 [Link] (preprint here).
  • Cande, J., Namiki, S., Qiu, J., Korff, W., Card, G., Shaevitz, J.W., and Stern, D.L., and Berman, G.J., "Optogenetic dissection of descending behavioral control in Drosophila " eLife, 7, 2018, e34275 [Link]
  • Berman, G.J., Bialek, W., and Shaevitz, J.W., "Predictability and hierarchy in Drosophila behavior" PNAS, 113, 2016, 11943-11948 [Link] (preprint here).
  • Klibaite, U., Berman, G.J., Cande J., Stern, D.L., and Shaevitz, J.W., "An unsupervised method for quantifying the behavior of paired individuals" Physical Biology, 14, 2017, 015006 [Link] (preprint here).
  • LaRue, K., Clemens, J., Berman, G.J., and Murthy, M., "Acoustic duetting relies on the integration of auditory and tactile signals in Drosophila virilis" eLife, 4, 2015, 07277. [Link]
  • Berman, G.J., Choi, D. M., Bialek, W., and Shaevitz, J.W., "Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies" J. Royal Soc. Interface, 11, 2014, 20140672. [Link]

    • Neural and Behavioral Analysis

  • Nande, A., Dubinkina, V., Ravasio, R., Zhang, G.H., and Berman, G.J., "Modeling bottlenecks, modularity, and context-dependency in behavioral control" (Under review, preprint here).
  • Borie, A.M., Agezo, S., Lunsford, P., Boender, A., Guo, J., Berman, G.J., Young, L.J., and Liu, R.C., "Social experience alters oxytocinergic modulation in the nucleus accumbens of female prairie voles" (Under revision, preprint here).
  • Saravanan, V., Berman, G.J., and Sober, S., "Application of the hierarchical bootstrap to multi-level data in neuroscience" Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory, 2020, [Link]
  • Saravanan, V., Hoffman, L.A., Jacobs, A., Berman, G.J., and Sober, S., "Dopamine depletion affects vocal acoustics and disrupts sensorimotor adaptation in songbirds" eNeuro, 6, 2019, [Link]
  • Jain, K. and Berman, G.J. "Opening the black box of social behavior" Nature Neuroscience, 22, 2019, 1947–1948 (Preview of this article). [Link]
  • Berman, G.J. "Measuring behavior across scales" BMC Biology, 16, 2018, 23. [Link] (preprint here)
  • Berman, G.J. "How to build a behavior" Neuron, 100, 2018, 1275-1277 (Preview of this article). [Link]
  • Tabler, J.M., Mitchell, M.M., Berman, G.J., Gopalakrishna, S., Fitch, R., Carter, C., Vokes, S., Tajbakhsh, S., Egnor, S.E.R., and Wallingford, J., "Cilia-mediated Hedgehog signaling controls form and function in the mammalian larynx" eLife, 6, 2017, e19153. [Link]

    • Dynamical Analysis of Human Brain Data

  • Billings, J.C., Medda, A., Shakil, S., Shen, X., Kashyap, A., Chen, S., Abbas, A., Zhang, X., Nezafati, M., Pan, W., Berman, G.J., and Keilholz, S.D., "Instantaneous Brain Dynamics Mapped to a Continuous State Space" NeuroImage, 162, 2017, 344-352. [Link] (preprint here).
  • Billings, J.C., Medda, A., Berman, G.J., and Keilholz, S.D., "Functional connectivity metrics for wavelet clustering of rs-fMRI data" 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 1295-1299, 2016. [Link]

    • Insect Flight

  • Ristroph, L., Bergou, A.J., Berman, G.J., Guckenheimer, J., Wang, Z.J., and Cohen, I., "Dynamics, Control, and Stabilization of Turning Flight in Fruit Flies" In: Childress, S., Hosoi, A., Schultz, W.W., and Wang, Z.J., eds. Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces, Springer, New York, NY, 2012, 83-100. [Link]
  • Ristroph, L., Bergou, A.J., Ristroph, G., Coumes, K., Berman, G.J., Guckenheimer, J., Wang, Z.J., and Cohen, I., ”Discovering the flight autostabilizer of fruit flies by inducing aerial stumbles” PNAS, 107, 2010, 4820-4824. [Link]
  • Berman, G.J. "Optimization, Control and Flies: Quantitative Studies of Insect Flight" Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 2009. [Link]
  • Ristroph, L., Berman, G.J., Bergou, A.J., Wang, Z.J., and Cohen, I., ”Automated hull reconstruction motion tracking (HRMT) applied to sideways maneuvers of free-flying insects” Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, 2009, 1324-1335. [Link]
  • Berman, G.J. and Wang, Z.J., ”Energy-minimizing kinematics in hovering insect flight,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 582, 2007, 153-167. [Link]