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Laboratories
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Hanchuan Peng, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
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Hanchuan Peng develops bioimage analysis and informatics techniques. He uses these techniques to mine and fuse knowledge from three-dimensional animal brain images, at both micrometer and nanometer scales. More
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Michael B. Reiser, Ph.D.
Fellow
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Michael Reiser uses experimental and theoretical approaches to unravel the processing of multisensory information in the flight control system of Drosophila. More
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Lynn M. Riddiford, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
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Lynn Riddiford studies the hormonal control of insect growth, molting and metamorphosis, particularly the roles of juvenile hormone and insulin. She is also interested in the hormonal basis of the evolution of metamorphosis and of metamorphic and reproductive behaviors. More
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Dmitry Rinberg, Ph.D.
Fellow
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Dmitry Rinberg has proposed a new framework for studying sensory processing that centers around behaving animals. More
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Elena Rivas, Ph.D.
Fellow
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Elena Rivas searches bacterial genomes for undiscovered genes, using a kind of computer method first developed by linguists to try to describe language in formal mathematical terms.
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Gerald M. Rubin, Ph.D.
Group Leader, VP and Director of Janelia Farm Research Campus
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The overall goal of Gerald Rubin's laboratory is to generate, and eventually apply, new tools to study the structure and function of the Drosophila melanogaster nervous system. More
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Charles V. Shank, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
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Charles Shank has played a major role in shaping how scientists approach basic questions about how our world works. Under his direction, the Berkeley Lab emerged as a leader in the field of supercomputing and joined with two other national labs to form the Joint Genome Institute, a major contributor to the decoding of the human genome.
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Julie H. Simpson, Ph.D.
Group Leader
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To understand general principles of brain function and organization, Julie Simpson maps neural circuits in the adult fly brain that govern distinct motor behaviors. Her lab uses a range of genetic, neurobiological, and histological techniques to attack this problem at several levels—from genes and neurons to circuits and behavior. More
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Scott M. Sternson, Ph.D.
Group Leader
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Scott Sternson is reverse engineering the mouse brain in order to understand how neural circuits control innate behaviors. He combines synthetic chemistry with genetics to deliver molecular switches to small groups of neurons in mice. By "flipping" these switches with chemicals or light, he maps neural circuits and measures the contribution of neurons to behaviors such as feeding and aggression. More
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Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.
Group Leader
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Karel Svoboda's lab is searching for the substrates of experience-dependent plasticity in the developing and adult neocortex. The functional properties of the brain must change in response to salient sensory experiences, but the nature of these changes at the level of synapses, neurons, and their networks (also known as the engram) is unknown. More
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James W. Truman, Ph.D.
Group Leader
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James Truman is developing stem cell-based approaches for analyzing the construction, function, and evolution of behavioral circuits in Drosophila and other insects. More
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