Stephen Huston

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.