Research areas
We investigate how the brain produces behaviour by looking at how movements are generated and adjusted to meet animals’ needs. See zwartlab.com for more information and ways to join the lab!
PhD supervision
- Cameron Burton
- Sarah Suber
Selected publications
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Open access
PoseR: a deep learning toolbox for classifying animal behavior
Mullen, P., Bowlby, B., Armstrong, H. C., Gray, A. & Zwart, M., 21 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Open Biology. 16, 1, 250322.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tonically active interneurons gate motor output in Drosophila larvae
Date, T., Liu, Y., Yamaguchi, A., McNulty, P., Wu, R., Gershow, M., Nose, A., Zwart, M. & Kohsaka, H., 21 Jan 2026, Online: bioRxiv, p. 1-64, 64 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Open access
Context-dependent coordination of movement in Tribolium castaneum larvae
Xu Ying, B., Zwart, M. F. & Pulver, S. R., 10 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 228, 7, jeb250015.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dopamine promotes motor programs underlying substrate tunneling in larval Drosophila
MacLeod, J., Xu Ying, B., Zwart, M. & Pulver, S., 17 Sept 2025, bioRxiv.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Open access
Rethinking sensorimotor circuits
Zwart, M. F., 13 Nov 2024, In: eLife. 13, 3 p., e104111.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Open access
Sidelobe suppressed Bessel beams for one-photon light-sheet microscopy
Taneja, C., George, J. G., Corsetti, S., Wijesinghe, P., Bruce, G. D., Zwart, M. F., Bhattacharya, S. & Dholakia, K., 1 Nov 2024, In: Biomedical Optics Express. 15, 11, p. 6183-6197 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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PoseR: a deep learning toolbox for decoding animal behavior
Mullen, P., Bowlby, B., Armstrong, H. C. & Zwart, M. F., 8 Apr 2023, bioRxiv, 28 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Open access
Synchronous multi-segmental activity between metachronal waves controls locomotion speed in Drosophila larvae
Liu, Y., Hasegawa, E., Nose, A., Zwart, M. F. & Kohsaka, H., 8 Aug 2023, In: eLife. 12, 26 p., e83328.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A brainstem integrator for self-location memory and positional homeostasis in zebrafish
Yang, E., Zwart, M. F., James, B., Rubinov, M., Wei, Z., Narayan, S., Vladimirov, N., Mensh, B. D., Fitzgerald, J. E. & Ahrens, M. B., 22 Dec 2022, In: Cell. 185, 26, p. 5011-5027 e20.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
A GABAergic Maf-expressing interneuron subset regulates the speed of locomotion in Drosophila
Babski, H., Jovanic, T., Surel, C., Yoshikawa, S., Zwart, M. F., Valmier, J., Thomas, J. B., Enriquez, J., Carroll, P. & Garcès, A., 22 Oct 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 17 p., 4796.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review