I am a neuroscientist, and postdoctoral fellow at Yale University.

I received my PhD at West Virginia University, and double majored in Neuroscience and Philosophy at the University of Scranton.

Throughout my career, I have used the numerically simple, and physiologically robust brains of insects to determine the cellular, molecular, synaptic and circuit basis of flexible olfactory coding. My work focuses on linking anatomical circuit connectivity, fine scale morphological properties of neurons, neuromodulator receptor expression profiles and their molecular pathways, and neurophysiology to understand how olfactory networks perform flexible computations. Using parallel molecular, genetic, physiological, and behavioral techniques in the Drosophila brain, I test causal links between the activity of defined neural populations, sensory processing, and perception.

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