Yun Zhang
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS
Animals in their natural environment interact with different ecological cues and modify their behaviors based on their experiences. A central goal of neurobiology is to understand the function of neural circuits that regulate these dynamic behaviors. Our research focuses on olfactory learning and chemical signaling among different species, and we employ the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a genetic and genomic model system to address these questions.