Chiara Cimarusti

Chiara Cimarusti is currently a 2nd-year undergraduate student in the Biological Science major at UCSB. She is interested in learning more about how the Drosophila larva brain works. She hopes to gain a better understanding of how different neurons are activated in the Drosophila larva brain to encode olfactory sensory environment and to help determine their actions. Chiara joined the lab in Fall of 2022, where she is currently working on the neural circuit underlying head casting behavior. She focuses on molecular genetics techniques such as performing immunohistochemistry and fly pushing. Eventually she hopes she will also gain more skills in conducting behavioral experiments and coding for data analysis.