Welcome to the Shaevitz Lab at Princeton University
We are interested in how life emerges from collections of molecules, cells, and organisms; asking how bacterial cells grow, divide, and move; how collections of cells form patterns; and how and why discrete animal behaviors are generated by the brain. To answer these questions we combine physics-style experiments, advanced data analysis techniques, and theoretical modeling, and use tools from optics, computer vision, machine learning, and more.
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Congrats to Matt, Grace, Diana, and Endao, who had papers published/accepted in Nature Physics, PLoS Computational Biology, PNAS, and Nature Communications! See our Publications page to read more!!
We are so proud of Grace McKenzie-Smith for landing an Assistant Professorship at Wesleyan University. A great institution to carry out her fascinating work on animal behavior.