Vanessa Ruta | |
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![]() Ruta in 2015 | |
Born | |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | |
Spouse | Rickie Mohan |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscience |
Institutions | Rockefeller University |
Doctoral advisor | Roderick MacKinnon |
Other academic advisors | Richard Axel, Robert Barlow Jr. |
Website | www |
Vanessa Julia Ruta is an American neuroscientist known for her work on the structure and function of chemosensory circuits underlying innate and learned behaviors in the fly Drosophila melanogaster. She is the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University[1] and, as of 2021, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[2]
Ruta is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. She was one of the six fellows from New York City.[3]
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