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Congratulations to Matt Smith (de Bivort Lab alum), who is launching his own laboratory as an assistant professor at Illinois Tech! Matt studied individuality in neural coding and individual differences in learning in our lab. In his postdoc with James Crall at the University of Wisconsin, he developed machine vision methods for tracking individual bee behavior. In his group, he will study the intersection of individuality, learning and collective behavior.

Thank you Stellate Communications for putting together a lovely new website, and accommodating all our quirks and large data files.

Carolyn Elya, assistant professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology was interviewed by The Transmitter, a neuroscience research magazine about her work studying how parasites alter the behavior of their hosts. She studied the host neural circutis that are targeted by the fungus Entomophthora muscae as a postdoc in the de Bivort lab through December 2023. Nice interview, Carolyn!