Hi. I'm Ryan D'Onofrio.
I am a second year neuroscience PhD student at UCSB, I work in Dr. Craig Montell's lab studying sensory perception in Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti
Learn about what I do
I am a second year neuroscience PhD student at UCSB, I work in Dr. Craig Montell's lab studying sensory perception in Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti
Learn about what I doI am interested in taking a modern approach to classic problems in neuroscience
Redesigning assays to better quantify behavior
Optimizing DeepLabCut to track positions in space
Using the latest gene editing technology to generate transgenic lines
Harnessing confocal and 2P microscopy to locate expression patterns
Generating viable mutant lines to study sensory perception
Probing Drosophila labellums to measure response to tastants
Creating Python scripts to make asssays more high throughput
Designing elegant fly crosses to produce experimentally needed progeny
All this while looking out at the beautiful Pacific Ocean!