University of California

Department of Physiological Science

621 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Box 951606

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606

2800 wing

Life Sciences Bldg

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lab phone (310) 206-4467

Mark A. Frye

(frye at physci dot ucla dot edu)

Assistant Professor

PhD U. Washington

(310) 825-5360

FAX (310) 206-9184

CV

Neuroscience; Brain Research Institute;

Molec., Cell., Integrative Physiology;

ACCESS; Neurobehavioral Genetics;

Neuroengineering;

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow;

faculty MBL Neural Systems and Behavior; Associate Editor FLY

PhySci 165 Comparative Animal Physiology

Postdoctoral Fellow (co-advised by Larry Zipursky)

Yan is currently studying structure-function relationships of neuronal circuits within the peripheral visual system of Drosophila. He uses standard neurogenetic approaches to manipulate neural circuits, then quantifies functional deficits for visuo-motor responses during walking in a novel "virtual treadmill". He is also studying mechanisms by which the salience of sensory stimuli are enhanced by cross-modal input. CV

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jamie is investigating the electrophysiological mechanisms of mathematically optimal early motion processing, and also how flies detect 2nd order motion that is invisible to the standard theoretical construct of elementary motion detection. CV

Postdoctoral Fellow

Partha is using quantatative behavior and neurogenetics to examine the temporal aspects of plume tracking during flight. He is also studying how sensory adaptation influences the sensory-motor control of active odor search. CV

Brian Duistermars BS University of California Riverside (bduist at ucla dot edu)

PhD Candidate (Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology)

Brian is examining how visual cues enable robust and accurate olfactory orientation during flight in magnetically tethered flies free to steer into and out of odor plumes. He also combines neurogenetics to understand how the distribution of olfactory sensory neuron activity is mapped onto behavioral odor plume tracking during flight. Brian is an NIH graduate training fellow and in 2008 was the recipient of both the Young Graduate Award and the Gresser Doctorate Fellowship. CV

Dawnis Chow BS Stanford University (dmchow at ucla dot edu)

PhD Student (Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology)

Dawnis is studying how olfactory cues influence optomotor responses within specific visual contexts in Drosophila. He is also interested in the mathematical analysis of sensory-independent exploratory and sensory-dependent active search strategies. Dawnis is an NIH graduate training fellow. CV

Undergraduate Researcher

Jasmin is conducting a behavioral screen of select Gal-4 driver lines to isolate functional optomotor and phototaxis microcircuits. She is investigating a peculiar social influence on walking optomotor dynamics. She also helps care for our fly colonies. Jasmin is the recepient of the Stone Research Award, and the College of Letters and Science Undegraduate Research Fellowship for her research.

Ivan Rodriguez-Pinto Neuroscience major (irodriguezpinto at ucla dot edu)

Undergraduate Researcher

Ivan is quantifying the time course of odor search initiation for large groups of freely behaving flies. He is also examining how this time course is altered in genetic mutants that were classically screened for learning and memory defecits. Ivan won a scholarship from the UCLA Center for Academic Research Excellence CARE Scholar and won Outstanding Poster Presentation at the California Alliance for Minority Participation in Science in Irvine CA CAMP program.