Posts by Giulia Paci
A three-dimensional digital atlas for the imaginal wing disc of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
- 07 October 2025
Building on the team’s experience making neuroanatomical atlases from scratch, BrainGlobe core developer Alessandro Felder teamed up with Dr Giulia Paci from the UCL Tissue Mechanics Lab, to explore the use of atlases (in the neuroanatomical sense) outside of neuroscience. Giulia is an expert in developmental mechanobiology of the fly. She uses the imaginal wing disc, a part of the fly larva that will later develop into the adult wing and notum, as a model organism for her research on how organisms develop robustly in noisy environments.