Dr. Pavel Masek is working as Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Binghamton University. He has done BS and MS -Zoology and Entomology from University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, PhD in Neurobiology from University of Wuerzburg, Germany and Postdoc from UC Berkeley, CA. Currently He is working on taste and feeding-driven motivational behavior, molecular basis and neuronal circuits underlying gustatory learning and memory, changes in feeding due to evolutionary selection, and in optogenetics and thermogenetics techniques.

Behavioral neurogenetics, Taste and feeding, Learning and Memory, Optogenetics