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Education

Harvard University (August 2018 - Present)

University of Chicago (August 2014 - June 2018)


Research Experience

Graduate Student Researcher, de Bivort Lab (Harvard University)

Undergraduate Student Researcher, Dinner & Rust Labs (University of Chicago)


Publications

  1. Churgin, M.*, Lavrentovich, D.*, Smith, M., Gao, R., Boyden, E., & de Bivort, B. (2023). Neural correlates of individual odor preference in Drosophila. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.24.474127
  2. Elya, C., Lavrentovich, D., Lee, E., Pasadyn, C., Duval, J., Basak, M., Saykina, V., & de Bivort, B. (2023). Neural mechanisms of parasite-induced summiting behavior in ‘zombie’ drosophila. eLife, 12. DOI: 10.7554/elife.85410
  3. Cammann, J., Schwarzendahl, F., Ostapenko, T., Lavrentovich, D., Bäumchen, O., & Mazza, M. (2021). Emergent probability fluxes in confined microbial navigation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (39). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024752118
  4. Hong, L., Lavrentovich, D., Chavan, A., Leypunskiy, E., Li, E., Matthews, C., LiWang, A., Rust, M., & Dinner, A. (2020). Bayesian modeling reveals metabolite-dependent ultrasensitivity in the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Molecular Systems Biology, 16 (6). DOI: 10.15252/msb.20199355

  *: equal contributions


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