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.

 

 

ANNA VERBE

Postdoctoral Scholar

Anna received her Ph.D. from Aix Marseille University working with the Biorobotic team of the Institute of Movement Sciences. Her work focused on the aerial righting reflex of hoverflies. She is particularly interested in the link between environmental stimuli, neurobiology, and animals’ locomotion and behavior. Her current work concerns the uncovering the functional divisions of haltere sensing.

 

 

SUSAN ZUSMAN

Lab manager/geneticist

Susan received her Ph.D. at Princeton University in the laboratory of Eric Wieschaus and was an HHMI postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Richard Hynes at MIT. During her career she has held various positions in academia, big pharma, biotech and education.

 

 

 

 

SERENE DHAWAN

Graduate student

 

 

 

 

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

SEAN JOHNSEN
Graduate Rotation Student

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