"Sensory processing in a small brain"
Sponsor(s): Neurobiology
Rachel Wilson studies how simple circuits extract information about specific behaviorally relevant features of sensory stimuli. Her work focuses on the fruit fly Drosophila, with a special emphasis on the olfactory and auditory systems. Many of the basic building blocks of neural circuit connectivity and neural computation are likely to be conserved throughout evolutionary history; therefore, understanding how these elemental units function and work together is fundamental to understanding all neural circuit function. In 2008 she won a MacArthur Fellowship.
Contact: Irene Lofstrom