Explore how honey bees integrate day length and temperature cues in the nervous system to adapt their behavior

Sponsored by Kavli Prize Laureate Prof. Eve Marder at Brandeis University, Rodriguez-Casariego studies neural epigenetic mechanisms for inherited responses to environmental factors, like hypoxia, in aplasia

Uncover the neural basis of how Clytia larvae sense and use environmental cues to explore their environment and decide upon a settlement location

Examine how rising temperatures and low-level pollutants like dioxin interact in the brain to influence reproductive behavior and success in zebrafish

Implement comparative approaches to investigate how auditory neural specializations in species like bats and mice confer resilience to anthropogenic noise

Establish a behavioral and cellular toolkit for studying environmental impacts on the nervous system of sea slugs

Explore sensory-neural contributions to molluscan shell patterning and production, and assess how these are impacted by environmental factors

Investigate the effects of atmospheric pollutants on plant-pollinator interactions and the processing of floral scents

Determine the role of astrocytes in heat resilience, to better understand how the brain builds resilience to temperature challenges at the cell and molecular level

Investigate the neuronal and circuit principles that underlie functional resilience to temperature in the nematode C. elegans

Assess the ability of invertebrate species to maintain neuron development and function in response to temperature flux, to address a gap between known ecological impacts and physiological adaptation

Investigate how cephalopods cope with environmental changes, such as low oxygen availability (hypoxia), to advance studies in RNA editing and neural adaptation

Develop new tools to study biophysical perturbations in neuronal cell properties, to explore adaptability of neural systems

Investigate the influence of environmental context and valence on neural responses in the basolateral amygdala