Organic light-emitting diodes for optogenetic stimulation of Drosophila larvae

Optogenetics is an emerging method in biology that enables controlling neurons with light. We use organic light-emitting diodes to stimulate neurons in Drosophila larvae and investigate subsequent behavioral changes at different light intensities.

Citation

Murawski , C , Morton , A , Samuel , I D W , Pulver , S & Gather , M C 2016 , Organic light-emitting diodes for optogenetic stimulation of Drosophila larvae . in Proceedings, Light, Energy and the Environment . , JW4A.9 , Fourier Transform Spectroscopy , Optical Society of American (OSA) , OSA Light, Energy and the Environment Congress , Leipzig , Germany , 14/11/16 . https://doi.org/10.1364/FTS.2016.JW4A.9

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Proceedings, Light, Energy and the Environment

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1364/FTS.2016.JW4A.9

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© 2016, the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at www.osapublishing.org / https://doi.org/10.1364/FTS.2016.JW4A.9

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We are grateful for financial support from the Scottish Funding Council (through SUPA), Human Frontier Science Program (RGY0074/2013), Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund St Andrews, the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust, and EPSRC via grant EP/J01771X/1. CM acknowledges funding by the European Commission through a Marie Skłodowska Curie individual fellowship (703387).

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https://hdl.handle.net/10023/9861