Donovan Ventimiglia

Donovan Ventimiglia received his undergraduate degree in biology from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara, and received his PhD at Rockefeller University where he studied synaptic biology, neural circuits and quantitative behavior in C. elegans. He completed a postdoctoral position at the Marine Biology Laboratory where he studied the neurobiology of cuttlefish camouflage and trained as a scientific diver at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. In 2019 he joined the Salk Institute to study social behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Ventimiglia's project seeks to identify and dissect the neural circuits regulating aggression and social dominance in the fly.