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Lab website

insectneurolab.com

 

 

 

• Black soldier flies
• mosquitoes
• Drosophila
• development of genetic tools
• bumblebees
• sensory neuroscience
• neuroethology
• olfaction
• sensory ecology

• Animal Cells and Systems
• Ecology, Evolution & Environment

Chapter in book

• Fölsz, Orsolya, Lin, Chun-Chieh, Task, Darya, Riabinina, Olena & Potter, Christopher J. (2022). The Q-system: A Versatile Repressible Binary Expression System. In Drosophila: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2540: 35.
• Riabinina, O. & Potter, C. J. (2016). The Q-System: A Versatile Expression System for Drosophila. In Drosophila. Methods in Molecular Biology. 1478: 53.

Journal Article

• Gomez Ramirez, Wendy Carolina, Thomas, Nyasha KT, Muktar, Iman J & Riabinina, Olena (2023). The neuroecology of olfaction in bees. Current Opinion in Insect Science 56: 101018.
• Riabinina, Olena Quinn, Matthew & Whitehead, Joe (2022). Genetic Toolbox Approaches in Mosquitoes. Cold Spring Harbour Protocols
• Langridge, Keri V., Wilke, Claudia, Riabinina, Olena, Vorobyev, Misha & Hempel de Ibarra, Natalie (2021). Approach Direction Prior to Landing Explains Patterns of Colour Learning in Bees. Frontiers in Physiology 12: 697886.
• Wheelwright, M., Whittle, C.R. & Riabinina, O. (2021). Olfactory systems across mosquito species. Cell and Tissue Research
• Redhai, S., Pilgrim, C., Gaspar, P., Giesen, L. van, Lopes, T., Riabinina, O., Grenier, T., Milona, A., Chanana, B., Swadling, J.B., Wang, Y.-F., Dahalan, F., Yuan, M., Wilsch-Brauninger, M., Lin, W.-H., Dennison, N., Capriotti, P., Lawniczak, M. K. N., Baines, R. A., Warnecke, T., Windbichler, N., Leulier, F., Bellono, N. W. & Miguel-Aliaga, I. (2020). An intestinal zinc sensor regulates food intake and developmental growth. Nature 580(7802): 263-268.
• Afify, A., Betz, J. F., Riabinina, O., Lahondere, C. & Potter, C. J. (2019). Commonly Used Insect Repellents Hide Human Odors from Anopheles Mosquitoes. Current Biology 29(21): 3669-3680.
• Mansourian, S., Fandino, R.A. & Riabinina, O. (2019). Progress in the use of genetic methods to study insect behavior outside Drosophila. Current Opinion in Insect Science 36: 45-56.
• Riabinina, O., Vernon, S. W., Dickson, B. J. & Baines, R. A. (2019). Split-QF System for Fine-Tuned Transgene Expression in Drosophila. Genetics 212(1): 53-63.
• Riabinina, O., Task, D., Marr, E., Lin, C.-C., Alford, R., O'Brochta, D. A. & Potter, C. J. (2016). Organization of olfactory centres in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Nature Communications 7: 13010.
• Lin, C.-C., Riabinina, O. & Potter, C. J. (2016). Olfactory Behaviors Assayed by Computer Tracking Of Drosophila in a Four-quadrant Olfactometer. Journal of Visualized Experiments (114): e54346.
• Gao, X.J., Riabinina, O., Li, J., Potter, C. J., Clandinin, T. R. & Luo, L. (2015). A transcriptional reporter of intracellular Ca2+ in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience 18(6): 917-925.
• Riabinina, O., Luginbuhl, D., Marr, E., Liu, S., Wu, M. N., Luo, L. & Potter, C. J. (2015). Improved and expanded Q-system reagents for genetic manipulations. Nature Methods 12(3): 219-222.
• Riabinina, O., de Ibarra, N. H., Philippides, A. & Collett, T. S. (2014). Head movements and the optic flow generated during the learning flights of bumblebees. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(15): 2633-2642.
• Collett, T. S., de Ibarra, N. H., Riabinina, O. & Philippides, A. (2013). Coordinating compass-based and nest-based flight directions during bumblebee learning and return flights. Journal of Experimental Biology 216(6): 1105.
• Philippides, A., de Ibarra, N. H., Riabinina, O. & Collett, T. S. (2013). Bumblebee calligraphy: the design and control of flight motifs in the learning and return flights of Bombus terrestris. Journal of Experimental Biology 216(6): 1093.
• Riabinina, O., Dai, M., Duke, T. & Albert, J. T. (2011). Active Process Mediates Species-Specific Tuning of Drosophila Ears. Current Biology 21(8): 658.
• Riabinina, O., de Ibarra, N. H., Howard, L. & Collett, T. S. (2011). Do wood ants learn sequences of visual stimuli? Journal of Experimental Biology 214(16): 2739.
• de Ibarra, N. H., Philippides, A., Riabinina, O. & Collett, T. S. (2009). Preferred viewing directions of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris L.) when learning and approaching their nest site. Journal of Experimental Biology 212(20): 3193.
• Riabinina, O. & Philippides, A. O. (2009). A model of visual detection of angular speed for bees. Journal of Theoretical Biology 257(1): 61.