A previous circus performer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Eugenia Chiappe, PhD, is interested in how animals move through space so effortlessly. Her lab at the Champalimaud Foundation in Portugal, studies the structure and function of visuomotor circuits in the fly brain controlling locomotion flexibly while maintaining stability, two conserved but poorly understood functional principles of motor systems across animal species.
This was selected as a part of the Neuroscience 2023 programming: Theme D – Sensory Systems
