Aspirating flies on a collecting trip in the Huntington Gardens orange orchard in Pasadena, CA.
Research
I am interested in how nervous systems generate complex behavior. For my dissertation I examined behavioral responses to polarized light in the laboratory and in a field arena. I have also begun a series of experiments probing neural activity in the Central Complex during flight and other behaviors.
Publications
Weir, P. T. and Dickinson, M. H. (2012). Flying Drosophila orient to sky polarization. Current Biology 22, 12-20.
Education
Ph.D. Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech, [defended 2012, to be awarded June, 2013]
B.A. Physics and Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 2004