Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera

Lucas received his B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory where he studied ion-channels and developed machine learning-based tools for histology. Lucas also trained at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where he studied locomotor coordination and internal states in the fly, and at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied the role of sodium leak in neuronal hyperexcitability. Lucas is interested in dissecting and interrogating the neural circuits of perception to understand their algorithmic properties.