Informal NB-CNS Seminar- Speaker: Cory Root | Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 4 pm
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Time: 4 pm
Location: Chen 100
Speaker: Cory Root
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
UC San Diego
Faculty Host: Yuki Oka
Title: "Olfactory circuits for innate motivational valence."
About the speaker: Cory received his B.A. in Biology and Chemistry combined major from Whitman College. Before graduate school, Cory worked with Nicholas Spitzer at UCSD for nearly 5 years studying activity-dependent neurotrasmitter expression in Xenopus spinal neurons, where he developed an interest in neurobiology. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in Biology from UCSD working with Jing Wang studying neuromodulation and olfactory processing in Drosophila. Cory did postdoctoral research with Richard Axel at Columbia University, before coming home to UCSD in the summer of 2016.