Doris Ling

Doris was born and raised in New York City. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. After graduation, she worked in the lab of Dr. Hatice Senturk at Massachusetts General Hospital developing hydrogels as scaffolds to tissue engineer cartilage. For her Masters, went to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) where she studied Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in bioelectronics. She is currently doing her pre-doctoral work at WashU under the mentorship of Prof. Yehuda Ben-Shahar and Prof. Barani Raman to study how fruit flies smell. Indeed, they smell bad. In particular, she is interested in how specific voltage-gated ion channels and ionotropic receptors contribute to sensory to sensory encoding.