I am a Leon Levy Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Neuroscience Institute in the laboratory of
Dr. Kathy Nagel. Previously, I earned my Ph.D. at Caltech working in
Dr. Michael Dickinson’s lab. All moving animals experience a myriad of sensory signals, some originating from the external world and some produced by their own movements. To understand how the brain discriminates between these signals and uses them to guide coordinated behavior, I study the fruit fly,
Drosophila melanogaster, as a model. My goal is to obtain a mechanistic understanding of fundamental principles of neural function by studying behaving animals in an integrative fashion, from synapses and circuits to muscles and behavior.