Professor Jessica Fox, Kris Lea, and Maddie Ang were recently featured in The Daily, speaking about their research into “how an insect’s nervous system converts sensory information about the body’s position and movement into neural information to produce adaptive behavior”, hoping to spark development of new technologies to help humans.

The team studied more than 130 crane flies caught on the main Case Western Reserve campus quad or at the university’s 400-acre Squire Valleevue Farm, which includes a biology research field station. Using high-speed cameras, they observed how the flies’ legs, wings and modified hindwings—called halteres—reacted when subjected to different body movements.

You can read the full Daily article HERE.