Dr Tamara Boto
BSc, MScR (ASD), PhD
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Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
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Research interests
We are interested in how sensory information affects behavioural decisions, with special focus on studying dopamine modulation of memory, sleep, and neuroinflammatory responses. We use the incredibly powerful model of Drosophila melanogaster to tackle this questions with mechanistic detail, using genetic, imaging and behavioural approaches.
Publications
Selected publications
14/03/2022Associative learning drives longitudinally graded presynaptic plasticity of neurotransmitter release along axonal compartments
eLife
Functional Imaging of Learning-Induced Plasticity in the Central Nervous System with Genetically Encoded Reporters inDrosophila
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Learning and memory: Clashing engrams in the fly brain
Current Biology
Recent publications
15/05/2025The Ataxin-2 protein is required in Kenyon cells for RNP-granule assembly and appetitive long-term memory formation
Ex Vivo Brain Imaging inDrosophila
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Functional Imaging of Learning-Induced Plasticity in the Central Nervous System with Genetically Encoded Reporters inDrosophila
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Imaging Olfactory Learning-Induced Plasticity in Vivo in theDrosophilaBrain
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Sleep benefits different stages of memory in Drosophila
Frontiers in Physiology
