"Emotion" in the Hungry Fly Brain: Hidehiko Inagaki and Ketaki Panse at TEDxCaltech

Hidehiko Inagaki is a graduate student in biology at the Caltech. His main interest is in how the emotions are represented in the brain. As a model system, he studies the neural circuitry basis of hunger in flies. In addition, his thesis is focused on developing novel methods to visualize and control chemical circuits in the brains, which have important roles in the control of emotions. As an undergraduate researcher at the University of Tokyo, Hidehiko worked in various research areas including cancer, bioinformatics, development neuroscience, and fly behaviors. At Caltech, he works with Professor David J. Anderson. He also used to work in a scuba diving shop, where he was fascinated and interested in variety of innate behaviors animals exhibit under the sea.

Ketaki Panse is a third year undergraduate majoring in neurobiology at Caltech. Ketaki is working in the lab of Professor David Anderson, studying which neuromodulators are responsible for feeding and searching behavior in fruit flies. Interested in both the sciences and the humanities, Ketaki also plans to major in English. Her interests include epigenetics and surrealist art.

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[Mahesh Nandurkar]

Wonderful and ell studied presentation

[goddessmaat0107]

A scientist should be willing to experience personally any experiment he inflicts on other sentient beings.

[stinkyrider199]

We should all just try to be a little bit more like the great Ketaki.. but maybe without the starving of innocent fruit flies.

[Jaren0117]

Lol!

[Xenogene Gray]

This is an essential video for people like Sarah Palin to watch, so she can learn the importance of the humble fruit fly to science :)