Lab members
Join the lab! We are actively looking for Postdocs, Students and Technicians to use patch clamp electrophysiology, behavior, fly genetics and anatomy to study how the brain combines visual and proprioceptive inputs to guide movement. Send informal enquiries to Stephen Huston. Please include a CV, list of references and short summary of your research interests.
Stephen Huston's research explores how the interaction of sensory and motor systems generates complex behavior. His work has traced this fundamental interest from his Ph.D. studies at Cambridge in Holger Krapp’s lab, where he investigated how visual information is encoded and decoded by the motor system, to his postdoctoral research at Caltech in Gilles Laurent’s lab on how active sampling movements structure the brain’s representation of odors in locusts. He was a Junior Fellow at Janelia Research Campus and is now an Assistant Professor in Neuroscience at the Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University. Today, his lab leverages the genetic toolkit of the fly Drosophila, combined with electrophysiology and behavior analysis, to understand how visual and proprioceptive inputs are integrated to control movement.
Sophia Feng is an undergraduate at Barnard College and joined the lab in 2026. Sophia is using behavioral experiments to study how the nervous system integrates visual and proprioceptive sensory inputs.