Positions available
We are looking for technicians, graduate students, and postdocs interested in using patch clamp electrophysiology, quantitative behavior, neurogenetics , and anatomy to study how vision and proprioception are integrated to produce adaptive motor commands. Send informal enquiries to Stephen Huston. Please include a CV, list of your references and a short summary of your research interests.
Research
We study the fly brain to uncover the fundamental principles by which brains generate behavior.
To generate behavior the brain must transform its sensory inputs into the appropriate motor outputs.
To determine how the brain achieves this, we study a behavior where it is feasible to understand the entire neural circuit from end-to-end: visually driven head movements of the fly.
We use electrophysiology to record from visual and motor neurons as they interact and also perturb the same neurons genetically to measure their impact on behavior. See Research Projects for more information.
Featured publication
Motor neurons generate pose-targeted movements via proprioceptive sculpting
Nature
Gorko et al.