Damon Clark, PhD
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Physics and of NeuroscienceDownloadHi-Res Photo
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Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Physics and of Neuroscience
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Neuroscience
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- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Track
- Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Stanford University (2012)
- PhD
- Harvard University, Physics (2007)
- AB
- Princeton University, Physics (2001)
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Behavior; Computational Biology; Drosophila; Motion Perception; Neurobiology; Optogenetics; Sensation; Visual Perception
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0000-0001-8487-700X- View Lab Website
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Ryosuke Tanaka, MS
Gustavo Madeira Santana
Jonathan Demb, PhD
Thierry Emonet
Daniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos, PhD
Samuel David McDougle, PhD
30Publications
1,113Citations
Motion Perception
Drosophila
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2026
Fly navigational responses exploit plume-specific odor motion and gradient cues
Brudner S, Zhou B, Jayaram V, Santana G, Crimaldi J, Clark D, Emonet T. Fly navigational responses exploit plume-specific odor motion and gradient cues. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2026, 123: e2608896123. PMID: 42446985, PMCID: PMC13389596, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2608896123.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricSpatial and morphological organization of mitochondria in neurons across a connectome
Sager G, Pfeiffer P, Wu H, Pallasdies F, Gowers R, Ravikumar S, Wu E, Colón-Ramos D, Schreiber S, Clark D. Spatial and morphological organization of mitochondria in neurons across a connectome. Science 2026, 391: eads6674-eads6674. PMID: 41379939, PMCID: PMC12906887, DOI: 10.1126/science.ads6674.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricHumans can use positive and negative spectrotemporal correlations to detect rising and falling pitch
Vaziri P, McDougle S, Clark D. Humans can use positive and negative spectrotemporal correlations to detect rising and falling pitch. Nature Human Behaviour 2026, 10: 417-433. PMID: 41663716, PMCID: PMC12932110, DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02371-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetric
2025
Visual circuitry for distance estimation in Drosophila
Shomar J, Wu E, Au B, Maier K, Zhou B, Matos N, Sager G, Santana G, Tanaka R, Gish C, Clark D. Visual circuitry for distance estimation in Drosophila. Current Biology 2025, 35: 5136-5149.e8. PMID: 41015039, PMCID: PMC12652897, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.008.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricBroken time-reversal symmetry in visual motion detection
Wu N, Zhou B, Agrochao M, Clark D. Broken time-reversal symmetry in visual motion detection. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2025, 122: e2410768122. PMID: 40048271, PMCID: PMC11912477, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2410768122.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2024
Compartmentalized pooling generates orientation selectivity in wide-field amacrine cells
Lei W, Clark D, Demb J. Compartmentalized pooling generates orientation selectivity in wide-field amacrine cells. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2024, 121: e2411130121. PMID: 39602271, PMCID: PMC11626119, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2411130121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricAdaptation to visual sparsity enhances responses to isolated stimuli
Gou T, Matulis C, Clark D. Adaptation to visual sparsity enhances responses to isolated stimuli. Current Biology 2024, 34: 5697-5713.e8. PMID: 39577424, PMCID: PMC11834764, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.053.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricOptimization in Visual Motion Estimation
Clark D, Fitzgerald J. Optimization in Visual Motion Estimation. Annual Review Of Vision Science 2024, 10: 23-46. PMID: 38663426, PMCID: PMC11998607, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-vision-101623-025432.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsCitations
2023
Neural mechanisms to incorporate visual counterevidence in self-movement estimation
Tanaka R, Zhou B, Agrochao M, Badwan B, Au B, Matos N, Clark D. Neural mechanisms to incorporate visual counterevidence in self-movement estimation. Current Biology 2023, 33: 4960-4979.e7. PMID: 37918398, PMCID: PMC10848174, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricLong-timescale anti-directional rotation in Drosophila optomotor behavior
Mano O, Choi M, Tanaka R, Creamer M, Matos N, Shomar J, Badwan B, Clandinin T, Clark D. Long-timescale anti-directional rotation in Drosophila optomotor behavior. ELife 2023, 12: e86076. PMID: 37751469, PMCID: PMC10522332, DOI: 10.7554/elife.86076.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
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