Claude Desplan, Silver Professor and Professor of Biology at NYU, will visit Brandeis the week of March 21-25 as part of the M.R.Bauer Foundation Distinguished Lecturer Series. Desplan’s work focuses on developmental biology in insects, and is particularly concerned with pattern formation. A recent topic of interest is the development of the neural network that supports color vision in the optic lobe of the fruit fly.

Desplan will speak on Monday, March 21 at 4:00 pm in Gerstenzang 121. The title of his talk will be “Processing of Color Information in Drosophilia”. Desplan will speak again at Neurobiology Journal Club on March 22 at 12:05 pm in Gerstenzang 121.

According to a post at ratemyprofessors.com:

Desplan is the funniest, nicest guy ever. At first you may not be able to understand him too too easily due to his french accent but after a few days that’s not a problem. Desplan went pretty slow and went over concepts that people didn’t seem to understand. Even then he held very helpful review sessions. Great professor.