Mount Holyoke College
Biological Sciences
Neuroscience and Behavior
We are an enthusiastic group of young scientists using the sophisticated genetic tools in Drosophila to better understand the development and function of the nervous system. Our experiments typically fall into three broad categories: primary neuronal culture, in vivo circuit analysis, and behavioral assays. Together this provides with a powerful toolkit to understand the relationships between the structure and function of the serotonergic system.
 April 2026Congrats to Morgan and Jessie for giving excellent talks at MHC Senior Symposium! |  Jan 2026Our new paper was accepted in microPublication Biology. Congratulations to Jessie and Ava! |  Oct 2025Douglas presented a poster at the Neurobiology of Drosophila meeting at Cold Spring Harbor. This poster was the culmination 6 undergraduate projects, each earning authorship on the presentation! |
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 July 2025The Roossien Lab has officially moved to Mount Holyoke College! |
OUR APPROACH
See the following publications for further details of our methods
MULTISPECTRAL TRACING IN DENSELY LABELED MOUSE BRAIN WITH NTRACER
Roossien DH, Sadis BV*, Yan Y*, Webb JM*, Min LY, Dizaji AS, Bogart LJ, Mazuski C, Huth RS, Stecher JS, Akula S, Shen F, Xiao T, Vandenbrink M, Lichtman JW, Hensch TK, Herzog ED, Cai D Bioinformatics 2019;35:3544-3546
IMAGING NEURAL ARCHITECTURE IN BRAINBOW SAMPLES
Roossien DH, Cai D Methods in Molecular Biology 2017;1642:211-228
DROSOPHILA GROWTH CONES ADVANCE BY FORWARD TRANSLOCATION OF THE NEURONAL CYTOSKELETAL MESHWORK IN VIVO.
DH Roossien, P Lamoureux, D Van Vactor, KE Miller - PLoS One, 2013
Please navigate here to see a full list of publications.
GET IN TOUCH
Contact Roossien Lab to discuss their published work, teaching, collaboration opportunities or for any other inquiries.