Our lab is interested in mechanisms that allow innate behaviors to be encoded by genomes.  Many behaviors are innate, from the courtship ritual of fruitflies to the suckling of a newborn human infant.    We work at many different levels,  from the molecule to the behavior.  

We are located in the Snyderman Genome Science Research Building at the Duke University Medical Center.  

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Photo caption:  The green cells are the multidendritic pain sensing neurons of the Drosophila larvae.  The nociceptors in Drosophila morphologically resemble vertebrate nociceptors (shown in red  (from Ramon y Cajal)).