Orla Hardiman

Biography

In trying to map brain activity to innate and learned behaviours, the greatest advances have been made by "sizing down" the problem: probing simple model animals such as the tiny fruit-fly, Drosophila. One of Drosophila's most informative behaviours has been, surprisingly, olfaction. Smell is detected by frontline olfactory neurons, which connect to brain centres that process olfactory signals. The early olfactory system has an exquisitely precise and broadly conserved architecture,

Research Interest

healthcare