When:
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM CT
Where: Pancoe-NSUHS Life Sciences Pavilion, Pancoe Auditorium (1101), 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Department of Neurobiology
(847) 491-5521
Group: Neurobiology
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Professor Gallio's long term goal is to contribute to our understanding of how sensory stimuli are used to build an internal representation of the physical world, and how this representation is in turn processed into our actions and behaviors. Toward this goal, his laboratory studies how simple sensory stimuli (such as temperature, humidity, and “pain” signals), are represented and processed in the relatively simple brain of the fruit fly Drosophila. Using the fly as a model system is allowing them to study the basic principles of sensory processing, decision making and motivated behavior in an animal with only 100 thousand neurons, and taking advantage of a highly sophisticated experimental toolkit.