Throughout my scientific career, I have focused on investigating fundamental mechanisms underlying how sensory and motor systems interact to guide behavioral decisions. My approach has emphasized experimentation in awake, behaving animals, allowing for the precise examination of the interplay between neurons and motor action in real time.
My publications:
Flexible neural control of transition points within the egg-laying behavioral sequence in Drosophila
Kevin M. Cury & Richard Axel
Nature Neuroscience (2023), doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01332-5
A short guide to insect oviposition: when, where and how to lay an egg
Kevin M. Cury, Benjamin Prud’homme & Nicolas Gompel
Journal of Neurogenetics (2019), doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2019.1586898
DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning
Alexander Mathis, Pranav Mamidanna, Kevin M. Cury, Taiga Abe, Venkatesh N. Murthy, Mackenzie W. Mathis & Matthias Bethge
Nature Neuroscience (2018), doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0209-y
Robust odor coding via inhalation-coupled transient activity in the mammalian olfactory bulb
Kevin M. Cury & Naoshige Uchida
Neuron (2010), doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.040
2021 Emerging Neuroscientist Seminar Series winner:
I was honored to be selected as one of four winners for the 2021 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. Check out my seminar, titled “Decisions in an Innate Behavioral Sequence”, where I delve into my research on the neural mechanisms underlying goal-directed behavioral sequences.
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Q&A: “Enabling flexibility in innate behavioural sequences”