Publications

Easy Behavior technology is built on peer-reviewed science. Our products have contributed to research published in leading journals and cited thousands of times.

3,100+ total citations 77+ institutions worldwide Top-tier journals

Key publications

The foundational flyPAD and optoPAD methods papers, plus key work from our founder.

Studies using flyPAD & optoPAD

74 peer-reviewed papers and preprints that used flyPAD or optoPAD in their methods. Each entry links to the source.

2026

2025

Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference

Bertolini E, Münch D, Pascual J, Sgammeglia N, Bruzzone M, Ribeiro C, Auer TO

Nature (2025) flyPAD 2 citations DOI

“We next analysed taste-driven noni preference in three binary choice assays, a 72-well plate assay, a petri dish group assay and the fly-PAD (on single flies), comparing grape and noni juice.”

2024

The caloric value of food intake structurally adjusts a neuronal mushroom body circuit mediating olfactory learning inDrosophila

Çoban B, Poppinga H, Rachad EY, Geurten BRH, Vasmer D, Jimenez FJR, Gadgil YV, Deimel SH, Alyagor I, Schuldiner O, et al.

Learning & Memory (2024) flyPADoptoPAD 11 citations DOI

“Five microliters of 1 M sucrose...were placed in wells of the FlyPad...to detect the capacitance change when the flies physically interacted with the food. The flies were transferred to the FlyPad individually using a pump.”

2023

Selective integration of diverse taste inputs within a single taste modality

Deere JU, Sarkissian AA, Yang M, Uttley H, Santana NM, Nguyen L, Ravi K, Devineni AV

eLife (2023) optoPAD 26 citations DOI

“To examine more naturalistic feeding behavior in freely moving flies over a longer time period, we used the optoPAD assay (Moreira et al., 2019). The optoPAD was purchased from Pavel Itskov at Easy Behavior.”

2022

marmite defines a novel conserved neuropeptide family mediating nutritional homeostasis

Francisco AP, Tastekin I, Fernandes AB, Ezra-Nevo G, Deplancke B, Oliveira‐Maia AJ, Gontijo AM, Ribeiro C

bioRxiv (preprint) (2022) flyPAD 2 citations DOI

“we decided to test for phenotypes in feeding behavior and food choice using the flyPAD technology, a capacitance-based setup for testing independent changes in protein and carbohydrate feeding (Itskov et al., 2014).”

2021

Modulation of taste sensitivity by the olfactory system in Drosophila

Junca P, Stanley M, Musso P, Gordon MD

bioRxiv (preprint) (2021) flyPAD 5 citations DOI

“FlyPAD assays were performed similarly to those previously described. Flies were individually transferred to flyPAD arenas by mouth aspiration and allowed to feed for one hour at 25C, 70% RH. FlyPAD data were acquired using the Bonsai framework.”

2020

Enteric neurons increase maternal food intake during reproduction

Hadjieconomou D, King GA, Gaspar P, Mineo A, Blackie L, Ameku T, Studd C, Mendoza AD, Diao F, White BH, et al.

Nature (2020) flyPAD 124 citations DOI

“Food intake and feeding behaviour assays - FlyPAD: FlyPAD assays were performed as described in ref. 37. ... flies were individually transferred to flyPAD arenas by mouth aspiration and allowed to feed for 1h.”

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