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Stephanie Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the genetic, developmental, and neural changes underlying evolution, particularly in the context of butterfly mate preferences. Palmer investigates how populations of neurons collectively encode information, how brains perform computations on signals, and how learning is facilitated through these neural processes. Her lab applies computational techniques to analyze visual coding in nerve populations across different species, including insects and mammals. Palmer has published extensively in various neuroscience journals, contributing to the understanding of neural population coding and its applications in sensory processing. She collaborates closely with experimentalists to validate theoretical models, aiming to refine our knowledge of how neural systems adapt to dynamic environments. Palmer holds a DPhil in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford and has conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University, focusing on Neuroscience, before taking her position at the University of Chicago.
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