Videos

see Howard et al for details!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)31382-X.pdf

Fly Racing

see Howard et al for details!
 

The Mann Lab loves Strandbeests!

The awesome Strandbeests by the brilliant Theo Jansen!

Typical hexapods like flies walk by alternating three legs on the ground and three legs swinging. This is referred to as the tripod gait.

How flies walk: the tripod gait.

A lineage A clone in the adult Ventral Nerve Cord

 

How we track fly walking in real time

 

Total Internal Reflection to study how flies walk

 

The Acrobatic Fly (1910)

 

Vikram Ranade's farewell video

 

A lineage B clone in the adult Ventral Nerve Cord

 

Virtual fly walking in place

 

Side view of walking fly

 

The BIG FLY (a.k.a. Jon's Farewell Video)

 

Mouse footprints, tracked using Total Internal Reflection