Neurobiology Student Seminar

Thomas Ray is a member of the Kay lab. They study how neural circuits devoted to specific visual processing tasks arise during development of the retina, and the consequences for circuit function when development goes wrong. The tools of mouse genetics are central to our approach, and we draw on a wide range of molecular, genetic, and imaging methods.

Charlene Chen works in the Yang lab, which is is interested in understanding the circuit mechanisms by which animal brains decode the biological value (e.g., attractiveness) of sensory stimuli to guide simple decisions. They use Drosophila egg-laying site selection as our model system.