Hi! I'm Isabel D'Alessandro, a second-year PhD student in the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard. Previously, I worked as a research assistant in the lab of Rachel Wilson at Harvard studying sensory-guided navigation in Drosophila. I'm interested in studying how the brain integrates sensory information to drive complex behaviors.
Specialized in computational neuroanatomy. Collaborated on projects studying the integration of sensory cues in the Drosophila heading compass.
Investigated the integration of visual and thermal stimuli by Drosophila in flight, and the effects of hydration state on behavioral responses to water and visual stimuli.
Functionally and pharmacologically characterized the pore-forming subunits of mechanosensitive ion channels expressed in C.elegans touch receptor neurons using electrophysiology