April, 2026: Meagan won an award!

Huge congratulations to Meagan for winning the UAlbany Outstanding Senior Award and the Jonathan Whyte-Dixon Memorial Scholarship. We assume this was in recognition of making this amazing rendering of her experiments:

January, 2026: New review article out in Trends in Neurosciences

Chloe has just published a review article in Trends in Neurosciences about the role of neural feedback in shaping visual processing in fruit flies. Congratulations to Chloe on the nice paper!

You can find it here

April, 2025: Jessica won some awards!

Our undergraduate researcher, Jessica, is graduating this Spring. Jessica won UAlbany’s Outstanding Senior Award and the Robert Osuna Award for Best Research Talk at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations Jessica!

September, 2024: Welcome Jessica, Josh and Bryce!

We are happy to have some new lab members for the start of the academic year.

We have two new undergraduate student researchers: Jessica Airhienbuwa and Josh Tu.

Bryce Chong is a MCDN PhD student rotating in the lab for a couple of months.

Welcome Bryce, Jessica & Josh!

March, 2024: First few months of the lab

The lab opened in January of 2024. We have been focusing on building the behavior rig to measure locomotor responses while presenting visual stimuli.

The rig has come together nicely, thanks to wonderful existing tools and resources like stimpack, jackfish, Michael Reiser’s fantastic open source behavior rig resources, Damon Clark’s flexible yet unfussy panoramic visual display design, as well as amazing support from folks at UAlbany, from our great CAS machinist to my colleague Greg Lnenicka who gifted the lab some gently used equipment.