Dr. Jack Gray

Biography

Jack Gray is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his Ph.D. in 1995 at Queen's University, focusing on neurophysiological and anatomical changes in locust forewing hinge stretch receptors and the establishment of mature flight motor patterns. Following his Ph.D., he served as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, where his research centered on the neural circuitry underlying novel motor patterns during insect metamorphosis. He then continued his career as a Research Associate at the University of Oregon, utilizing high-contrast confocal microscopy to explore steroid-induced changes in synaptic strength along sensory-motor pathways. In 1999, he joined the University of Arizona's Arizona Research Laboratory Division of Neurobiology, where he worked on sensory-motor control of odour-guided flight in the adult male Manduca. Dr. Gray moved to the University of Saskatchewan in 2001 as an Assistant Professor, where he now directs research on the sensory-motor control of insect flight using flight simulators and wind tunnels.

Research Interests