신경유전학 연구실

All animals are born with a set of instincts, or innate behaviors, and our main questions are how complex behaviors are organized in the nervous system and how they are programmed during development. For this, the chemosensory system would be one of the most excellent models. Smell and taste are known to be important for sensing predators, selecting mates, as well as finding food. We are interested in tracing the neuronal pathways that mediate complex instinctive behaviors such as feeding, from sensory input to motor output. We use the fruit fly as a model system to study chemosensation.