Ricoy Lab
Low-cost approaches to Neuroscience
Neuroscience Education
Creating innovative curriculum pedagogy in Neuroscience that is hands-on and low-cost.
Outreach
Broadening Access in Neuroscience to underrepresented populations utilizing low cost approaches (invertebrates).
Quantification of unrestrained animal behavior is set to redefine neuroscience, marrying modern tools with complex ethological behaviors.
Low-cost Neurophysiology
Creative experimental preparations using invertebrates to teach/research Neurophysiology.
Ricoy Lab / Low Cost Approaches in Neuroscience
Current Lab Interests:
How do invertebrates learn their environment?
How do invertebrates move (locomotion) in their environment?
Invertebrates examining models of natural and drug reward.
Examining neural mechanisms involved in these behaviors through videography, electrophysiology, and mathematical modeling approaches.
Low cost approaches to study invertebrate behaviors and physiology.
Low cost approaches to broadening participation in Neuroscience from historically underserved populations.
Specialties:
Diversity, Science Outreach, STEM Education, Minority-Serving Institutions, History of Science, Science Identity
Neuroscience and Ethology (Low Cost Approaches)
Neuroethology: Characterizing Vibration Frequency Sensitivity and Neural Activity in Escaping Earthworms by Andres Romero and Ulises M. Ricoy
