MCDB Spotlights

A cross-disciplinary foundation in biological science, while allowing students the flexibility to choose their own path of inquiry.
We use light-switchable molecules to control and engineer natural cell behaviors.
How do neural circuits control the complex motor sequences that constitute fly grooming behavior?
Annalise is a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara in the Morrissey Lab. She was awarded the Karl Storz Imaging fellowship in her second year, and her research was recently featured on the NIH Director’s Blog.