Trevor Sorrells, PhD
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Biography
Trevor Sorrells received his B.S. in Biology from Stanford University in 2009. He completed his PhD in the lab of Alexander Johnson at the University of California, San Francisco where he pioneered molecular biological and genomic approaches in non-model yeast species to understand how transcription regulatory networks evolve. This work provided a mechanistic understanding of how network architecture and molecular function dictate the ways in which biological systems change over time. As a postdoctoral fellow with Leslie Vosshall at Rockefeller University, Trevor discovered a persistent behavioral state in the mosquito Aedes aegypti that sustains their pursuit of humans over time. To do this, he introduced optogenetics to study the brain of this important vector of disease. The Sorrells lab studies the neural circuits that control the ability of mosquitoes to bite humans and how this behavior evolved from their non-biting ancestors.
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral FellowRockefeller University (2022)
- PhDUniversity of California, San Francisco (2016)
- BSStanford University (2009)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 2023 |
NIAID New Innovator Award | National Institutes of Health | 2023 |
Bohmfalk Scholar | Yale School of Medicine | 2023 |
Polak Young Investigator Award | Association for Chemoreception Sciences | 2022 |
Harold M. Weintraub Award | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | 2016 |