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Neurobiology
Rasmussen Lab paper accepted at Cell Reports
Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Neural Diversity: From Stem Cells to Neural Circuits
During development, neural stem cells (NSCs) generate diverse cell types that self-assemble to form neural circuits regulating distinct behaviors. How neural cell types are specified and assembled into neural circuits is poorly understood.
Moving and Grooving: Exploring Behavioral Multitasking in Drosophila Courtship
Success in life, for humans and all animals, requires multitasking. Multitasking — the simultaneous execution of two or more behaviors by a single agent — may at times seem effortless and safe, such as walking and talking, or challenging and potentially fatal, such as driving and texting. Performance differences between different multitasking contexts are likely reflected in the cognitive demands of the constituent behaviors, yet the neural substrates that facilitate or constrain multitasking remain unknown.
Humanizing biology to promote equitable classrooms
Recent innovations in biology education research focus on promoting equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by humanizing biology. Research from my lab on this topic can be split into two broad avenues of inquiry, including the impacts of (1) promoting counter-stereotypical role models on student outcomes and (2) contextualizing societal and ethical considerations into biology curricula with ideological awareness.
New research from Riffell Lab on air pollution affecting nighttime pollinator activity in UW News
"Oh, that makes sense!": Metacognitive Regulation in Individual and Collaborative Problem-Solving
Stronger metacognition, or knowledge and regulation of thinking, is linked to increased learning, problem solving, and academic achievement. Metacognition has primarily been studied using retrospective methods, but these methods limit access to students’ in-the-moment thoughts and actions. Using in-the-moment methods of think aloud interviews and discourse analysis, we investigated first year life science students’ individual metacognition while they solved challenging problems and upper-division biology students’ social metacognition during small-group problem solving.
Horacio de la Iglesia co-authored white paper on significance of chronic jet lag on student-athlete health and performance
Horacio de la Iglesia interview on KUOW on topic of Daylight Savings Time [audio]
Rasmussen Lab paper published in Disease Models & Mechanisms
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