Thuc To

Biography

Thuc graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience from UCLA in 2017. She first became interested in the brain as a high school student because she thought that the brain spoke a beautiful language that she would love to understand. Her interest was further refined to System and Computational Neuroscience through her undergraduate research experience.

Research

Now as a graduate student in the Dynamical Neuroscience program and Louis Lab at UCSB, Thuc is working on understanding neuronal responses individually and within a circuit, and in turn, how all these intricate interactions influence cognitive processes and behaviors using Drosophila larvae as the study model. Though a pure neuroscientist by training, Thuc is deeply inspired by the interdisciplinary culture in Neuroscience and very happy to bring forth her other loves for equations, foreign languages, and art into this exciting journey.