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.

Studies the role of septins in collective border cell migration in the Drosophila ovary.

Although the Graduate Division ceremony has been canceled, we look forward to celebrating in person with these accomplished scientists in the future. Congratulations and best wishes to all.

Dissecting how macrophages count and measure to design new cancer therapies.

The Goard lab is focused on understanding the neural circuits that allow us to perceive, remember, and navigate through our spatial environment.

How do neural circuits control the complex motor sequences that constitute fly grooming behavior?

Surenna Pecchia is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Max Wilson’s lab at UC Santa Barbara. She is from Chelmsford, Massachusetts and received her B.S. in Biology from UMass Lowell.