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Ph.D. StudentIn 2005 I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with degrees in neuroscience and philosophy. While there, I had the good fortune to work in the lab of Bill Yates, where I studied how the vestibular system influences the control of cardiovascular and respiratory homeostasis. Now working in the Katz lab, I am doing my best to combine my older fondness for basic physiology with my newfound interest in computation and decision making into a reasonably cohesive thesis project. Right now, that project looks like it will be on how the brain processes the intensity of salt solutions, how that processing is structured, and how all this shapes an animal’s decision to either consume a particular solution or explore other potential options in its environment (and potentially how all this is dependent on the animal’s salt and water balance). more information, links, etc. | |||||||
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