benjamin de Bivort


Junior fellow, Rowland Institute at Harvard
100 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

Post-doctoral fellow (2007.xi - 2008.vii)
Giribet Laboratory,
Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Graduate student (2002 - 2007)
Kunes Laboratory,
Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Harvard University
Academic interests: I am studying the sensory systems of the insect Drosophila melanogaster, particularly the spatial development of antennal olfactory neurons, and the neural circuitry and genes that facilitate how insects respond to light.

Additional research interests include HIV modeling, arachnid systematics, graph theory, analytic number theory, gene regulation and evolutionary modeling.
Courses taught:
Genetics and Genomics - BS50
Behavioral Ecology: Learning & Memory -OEB174
Systems Biology - MCB195
Calculus (Duke).
Ben de Bivort skiing in Gudauri, Georgia