Katherine Nagel

Katherine Nagel, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

Keywords
systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Summary

The Nagel lab uses the fruit fly Drosophila to study how the brain transforms sensory stimuli into motor actions, in particular how neural circuits combine stimuli of different modalities to generate purposeful goal-directed movement.  We use a combination of quantitative behavior, whole-cell 
electrophysiology, genetic manipulations, and computational modeling to investigate this question at behavioral, algorithmic, circuit, and synaptic levels.

Phone

646-501-4556

Fax

212-263-9170

Academic office

Science Building, 435 East 30th Street

11th Floor, Room 1102

New York, NY 10016

Lab Website
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Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from University of California, San Francisco

Inhibitory control explains locomotor statistics in walking Drosophila

Gattuso, Hannah C; van Hassel, Karin A; Freed, Jacob D; Nuñez, Kavin M; de la Rea, Beatriz; May, Christina E; Ermentrout, Bard; Victor, Jonathan D; Nagel, Katherine I

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2025 Apr 22; 122(16):e2407626122

Neural circuits for goal-directed navigation across species

Basu, Jayeeta; Nagel, Katherine

Trends in neurosciences. 2024 Nov; 47(11):904-917

Addendum: A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation

Matheson, Andrew M M; Lanz, Aaron J; Medina, Ashley M; Licata, Al M; Currier, Timothy A; Syed, Mubarak H; Nagel, Katherine I

Nature communications. 2024 Mar 01; 15(1):1903

The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila

Hamid, Aisha; Gattuso, Hannah; Caglar, Aysu Nora; Pillai, Midhula; Steele, Theresa; Gonzalez, Alexa; Nagel, Katherine; Syed, Mubarak Hussain

Current biology. CB. 2024 Feb 05; 34(3):473-488.e6

Astrocyte growth is driven by the Tre1/S1pr1 phospholipid-binding G protein-coupled receptor

Chen, Jiakun; Stork, Tobias; Kang, Yunsik; Nardone, Katherine A M; Auer, Franziska; Farrell, Ryan J; Jay, Taylor R; Heo, Dongeun; Sheehan, Amy; Paton, Cameron; Nagel, Katherine I; Schoppik, David; Monk, Kelly R; Freeman, Marc R

Neuron. 2024 Jan 03; 112(1):93-112.e10

Olfactory navigation in arthropods

Steele, Theresa J; Lanz, Aaron J; Nagel, Katherine I

Journal of comparative physiology. A. Neuroethology, sensory, neural, & behavioral physiology. 2023 Jul; 209(4):467-488

SAMPL is a high-throughput solution to study unconstrained vertical behavior in small animals

Zhu, Yunlu; Auer, Franziska; Gelnaw, Hannah; Davis, Samantha N; Hamling, Kyla R; May, Christina E; Ahamed, Hassan; Ringstad, Niels; Nagel, Katherine I; Schoppik, David

Cell reports. 2023 Jun 01; 42(6):112573

Active antennal movements in Drosophila can tune wind encoding

Suver, Marie P; Medina, Ashley M; Nagel, Katherine I

Current biology. CB. 2023 Feb 27; 33(4):780-789.e4

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