Steve Flavell stands near a window
July 23, 2018

Flavell earns School of Science named professorship

Steven Flavell, assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, has been named the Lister Brothers Career Development Professor. He is one of eight professors to be awarded named professorships in the School of Science, the school announced.

Flavell uses Caenorhabditis elegans worms to examine how neuromodulators coordinate activity in neural circuits to generate locomotion behaviors linked to the feeding or satiety states of an animal. His long-term goal is to understand how neural circuits generate sustained behavioral states, and how physiological and environmental information is integrated into these circuits. Gaining a mechanistic understanding of how these circuits function will be essential to decipher the neural bases of sleep and mood disorders.

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