Sophie Dickinson

Biography

Sophie received her BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the fall of 2019 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was incredibly interested in the way mathematical models can be applied to biological systems and was enthralled to learn about the powerful techniques of optogenetics and behavioral tracking. She began studying an uncharacterized neural pathway in the Louis lab in the summer of 2018. The purpose of this research is to understand the behavioral responses in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster on the level of individual neurons and neural circuits, and to ultimately apply this knowledge to higher organisms.