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STATE-DEPENDENT DECISION MAKING

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


meet the team

​Sara Wasserman
PrincipAL
​investigator
Grace Turner

​CLASS OF 2020​
Rachel Frazer

​Class of 2020
Fatima Irfan

​Class of 2021
Lucinda Li

CLASS OF 2022​

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,
​to answer these questions, please visit our research page. Want to learn more about all the research being done in the Neuroscience Program at Wellesley? Click here.

what's the buzz?

NEWS

​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!

November  2019: Rachel Frazer presented her work at The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) where she won a presenter award! 

​October  2019: Rachel Frazer presented a talk on her research at a regional SICB meeting in Boston, MA.

​October  2019: Crystal Zhu presented her work at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Chicago, IL.

​August  2019: Emily Park started her Md/Phd at Baylor University.

​August 2019: Rachel Frazer has been selected to be a McNair Scholar, congratulations! 

To read about past news from the lab, please click here.
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lab photos

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