Leslie Griffith & Jeff Hall

Dr. Hall is a behavioral geneticist and was the first to characterize plasticity in Drosophila courtship behavior. Dr. Griffith, who studies learning and memory, uses this behavior as an end assay for flies with alterations in signal transduction pathways.

Dr. Hall and Dr. Griffith have recently obtained funding from the McKnight Foundation to develop a system to study the activation of signal transduction pathways in real-time in behaving animals. This project uses molecular technology developed in the Griffith lab and imaging technology developed in the Hall lab for use in monitoring individual fly locomotor rhythms.