Liangyu Tao, PhD Student and Research Assistant in Drexel's School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, will discuss his postgraduate research and corresponding Open Access article, Mechanisms of Variability Underlying Odor-Guided Locomotion, which was published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

About the speaker:  
Liangyu Tao is a PhD candidate and a NIH Kirschstein-NRSA graduate research fellow in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. Liangyu works in the Bhandawat Lab and is advised by Dr. Vikas Bhandawat. His research focuses on using genetic, behavioral, and computational approaches to understand how the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) nervous system generates variability in natural behaviors such as odor-guided locomotion. He received his BS in biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  

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Celebrate Open Access Week 2022 with the Drexel Libraries' Researcher Table Talks

Join the Drexel University Libraries for a series of Open Access Week Researcher Table Talks! During each event, a different Drexel researcher will talk about their latest research projects and importance of making research opening available, followed by Q/A and lively discussion with the audience. 

Each of the featured OA Week Researcher Table Talk speakers published their articles in Open Access publications using funding provided by the Drexel Libraries’ Open Access Publishing Pilot Fund.