Draft:Anita Devineni

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Anita Devineni
Alma mater	Stanford University (B.S.) University of California, San Francisco (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields	Behavioral Neuroscience
Institutions	Columbia University Emory University
Doctoral advisor	Ulrike Heberlein
Other academic advisors	Liqun Luo Richard Axel
Website	https://devinenilab.org/

Anita V. Devineni is an American neuroscientist and an Assistant Professor of Biology at Emory University. She uses the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to understand how neural circuits integrate sensory information create behavioral outputs.

Education and career

Devineni's interest in neuroscience began as an undergraduate student at Stanford University while attending Robert Sapolsky's lectures. Under the supervision of Liqun Luo, she conducted research studying how neuronal connections form during development. Devineni obtained her PhD degree at the University of San Francisco in 2012 under the supervision of Ulrike Heberlein. Her doctoral research focused on the neurocircuitry behind alcohol-seeking behavior in fruit flies. Devineni then joined the lab of Richard Axel as a postdoctoral fellow, where she studied how hunger modulates the sensory paths in the Drosophila gustatory system. After completing her postdoctoral research in 2021, Devineni joined the Emory faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2022.