Catherine von Reyn

Catherine R. von Reyn, PhD, received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a postdoctoral associate at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and is currently an associate professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University.

Dr. von Reyn's lab is focused on understanding how neural circuits extract sensory information from the external world and then use this information to select behavioral actions. Her research utilizes diverse, cutting-edge techniques, including cell type-specific genetic engineering, whole-cell patch clamp in behaving animals, computational modeling, and detailed behavioral analyses to identify and characterize sensorimotor circuits. Her lab also applies these techniques to understand how sensorimotor circuits are appropriately wired during development, with the long-term goal of developing technologies for replacing or re-engineering sensorimotor circuits in neurodegenerative and neurophysiological disorders.