Brandon received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2024 working with Dr. Aubrey Kelly on the neural circuits driving social behaviors in the cooperatively breeding spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus).
He is broadly interested in how the activity of individual neurons produce specific, complex, and often stereotyped behaviors.
In the Elya Lab, Brandon is interested in a variety of projects, including how E. muscae manipulates fruit fly neural activity to produce summitting behavior and how circadian rhythms may be perturbed during infection.