Damon Clark

Damon Clark is an Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Physics and of Neuroscience at Yale University. His research focuses on biophysics, specifically investigating how networks of neurons perform computations. Clark's lab uses the fruit fly’s visual system as a model to study neural circuits, employing genetic tools to manipulate and monitor neuronal activity. His work aims to identify the role of individual neurons in circuit computations. Clark holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, awarded in 2007.

Damon A. Clark is a professor at Yale University specializing in Neuroscience, with a focus on Visual processing, Neural circuits, Computational Neuroscience, and Drosophila. His research explores how neural circuits process visual information and mediate behaviors such as motion detection and thermotaxis. Clark's work includes studies on the computational structure of motion detectors in Drosophila and the role of sensory neurons in thermotactic behavior. He also investigates how neural circuits in organisms like C. elegans and Drosophila encode and process sensory information, including olfactory and mechanosensory signals. His research integrates computational models with experimental approaches to understand neural function and behavior.