STATE-DEPENDENT DECISION MAKING

WE ARE WORKING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE BRAIN INTEGRATES INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS TO GENERATE ADAPTIVE BEHAVIORAL OUTPUTS.

research

We use the fruit fly, Drosophila, to examine how well-defined sensory circuits demonstrate both robustness and flexibility required to generate appropriate behavior in the face of changing internal and external environments.

To read more about how we use 'virtual-reality' flight simulators, shown in the videos below,
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what's the buzz?

NEWS

May 2020: Rachel Frazer ('20) is elected into the scientific research honor society, Sigma Xi  and is featured on the Wellesley Spotlight!

April 2020: Isabel D'Alessandro ('18) will begin a PhD program in Neuroscience at Caltech in the fall!

April 2020: Rachel Frazer ('20) will begin a PhD program  at Columbia University - Department of Neuroscience in the fall!

April 2020: Isabel D'Alessandro ('18) is awarded a NSF GRFP to support graduate studies in Neuroscience!
Proposal Title: "Integration of polarized light into the Drosophila heading compass"

January  2020: Crystal Zhu is accepted to attend the Collaborative Experimental Design and Analytics Course (CEDA 2020) at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology!

January  2020: Rachel Frazer presented her work in a poster session at The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference in Austin, TX!

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lab photos

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