Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior Banner
Credit: Craig Montell Lab

Complex behaviors, including decision making and motor sequences are controlled by sensory input, the internal state, past experience and social interactions. Research in this area exploit model organisms from flies to mice to unravel the mechanisms underlying animal behavior.

 Affiliated Faculty

Assistant Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
The Goard lab focuses on how the mammalian neocortex processes and stores incoming sensory information.
Associate Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Spatial and temporal organization of stochastic axon systems in the brain.
Assistant Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Neural circuits of associative learning, motivation, and decision-making.
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Neural circuit dynamics and behavior; navigation; neural mechanisms of stimulus selection and decision-making.
Associate Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Combining theory and experimentation to understand how navigational decisions arise from neural-circuit computation.
Distinguished Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Molecular and cellular basis of animal behavior in flies and mosquitoes.
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Systems neuroscience, neuroethology, genetics. Dissecting neural circuits that control a motor sequence in fruit flies.
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Psychological & Brain Sciences
The role of active dendrites in nonlinear modes of synaptic integration.
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Exploring neural circuitry and illuminating its function, using new neurotechnology.
Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Primary areas: The mechanisms of neural tube closure in Xenopus and Ciona; Behavior and neural circuity in Ciona.