BRAD DICKERSON

Principal Investigator

I conducted my graduate work at the University of Washington and was a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow and California Alliance AGEP Fellow at Caltech. As of January 2022, I am an Assistant Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.

Join us! 

Highly motivated students and postdocs that are interested in any aspect our work and a collaborative environment are more than welcome in the lab. We are also currently looking for postdoctoral researchers, funded either on lab grants or through independent grants/fellowships. If you are a recent Ph.D. or finishing grad student thinking about what comes next, contact Brad so that we can discuss potential projects and funding. The lab also has room for and invites inquiries from undergraduate researchers in various capacities.

PAYEL CHATTERJEE

Postdoctoral Scholar

Fascinated by the physiological mechanisms of biological systems, Payel joined the laboratory of Prof. Sanjay Sane at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, where she was introduced to the exciting world of insect flight. During her Ph.D., Payel investigated the gaze stabilization system of hawkmoths. As a post-doc, she will look at how behavioral contexts affect haltere central inputs and downstream neck muscle activity using 2-photon calcium imaging.

SERENE DHAWAN

Graduate student

As an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, Serene first developed her interest in neuroscience, behaviour and all things creepy-crawly. Since then, she’s pursued a Master’s in Zoology and worked as a research assistant at the Francis Crick Institute. Having determined to spend the rest of her adult years dismembering fruit flies, as a PhD student Serene studies the functional organization of the haltere sensory system and its relationship to the wing. When she’s not busy doing science, Serene’s free time is divided between karaoke, gym and plotting her next Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

ZIJIN HUANG

Graduate student

Zijin is a first-year PhD student in Biophysics studying haltere kinematics as a rotation student. Prior to Princeton, she completed her B.A. in Physics and Environment & Sustainability at Cornell University, spending summers characterizing insect vision at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Zijin's research interests comprise mechanistic bases for behavior and the functional characterization of sensory encoding, more broadly speaking, elucidating how physical properties confer unique signals, morphology, and physiology.

Alumni

ANNA VERBE 
Postdoctoral Scholar

SEAN JOHNSEN
Graduate Rotation Student

SOONYOUNG KWON 
Undergraduate Researcher

ANNELISE MARSH
Undergraduate Researcher

FIONA SHAW
Undergraduate Researcher

MORGAN KLEIN
Undergraduate Lab Technician

KEMPER LUDLOW
Visiting graduate student

LILLY PRICE
Lab Manager / Technician

LIZA WHITMIRE
Undergraduate Researcher

SUSAN ZUSMAN 
Lab manager/geneticist