Feeling the Heat: How fruit flies and blood-sucking mosquitoes sense temperature (and you)

Speaker

Prof. Paul Garrity

Location

BioE 1001

Info

We study how animals sense the world around and within them. In particular, we focus on how insects sense temperature and humidity, and how the detection of these stimuli drives their behavior and alters their physiology. The seminar will examine the current understanding of how thermo- and hygro-sensory input is detected at the molecular and cell biological levels and how neural circuits process this sensory input. The seminar will discuss foundational studies in fruit flies, where these systems are critical for organismal homeostasis, as well as work in vector mosquitoes, which also use these systems to seek human hosts for blood feeding and water for egg laying.

Host

Craig Montell

Research Area

Neuroscience and Behavior

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