What do animals do, and how exactly do their actions arise? My lab's research is in biophysics and neuroscience. We use insect model systems to better understand the transformation from sensory input to motor output, a fundamental goal of systems neuroscience. This input-output path travels from the molecular basis of sensing stimuli, to the resulting activity of sensory neurons, to the encoding of sensory information in the brain, to the circuit-level processing of this information in neural networks, and finally to the animal's physical motor output.