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Marcella Noorman is an Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago, specializing in neurobiology. Her research focuses on computational neuroscience, specifically the maintenance and updating of accurate internal representations of continuous variables within neural circuits. She has published work on the connectome of the Drosophila central complex, revealing network motifs that facilitate flexible and context-dependent action selection. Her studies also include mathematical modeling of liver metabolism using partial differential equations to understand the effects of compartment dispersion. Her contributions to the field are reflected in multiple publications in prestigious journals, including Nature Neuroscience and eLife, where she explores fundamental questions about how neural systems process information.
Department of Philosophy