The Delventhal Lab

Welcome!

This is the website for the Delventhal Lab at Lake Forest College

You can learn about our research, any news and updates, and general information of the lab activities

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Overview

One major goal of research in the Delventhal lab is to uncover molecular mechanisms that underlie the physiological and behavioral changes observed in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. To do this, we use a model of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to induce neurodegenerative phenotypes in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We are interested in measuring the physiological, behavioral, and molecular changes that occur over time following an early-life TBI event. We aim to better understand the kinetics of these TBI-induced changes, and how they interact with aging processes, in the short-, mid- and long-term periods of time following an injury. Furthermore, we hypothesize that brain injury triggers changes that may occur in many common neurodegenerative diseases, and we hope to identify and study how these molecular pathways to the deterioration of the nervous system.

Learn more about our research.

News & Updates

Kamden & Hannah graduate!

Kamden and Hannah have officially graduated Lake Forest College and are moving on to exciting careers in research and medicine! We're going to miss them

Kamden successfully defends his thesis!

Kamden delivers an excellent research seminar to a packed house and completes a thorough, written thesis in April 2023!

Fly Meeting in Chicago

The whole lab went to Fly Meeting in Chicago March 1-5, 2023. Becca, Majo, Kamden, and Daniel presented posters!

https://www.lakeforest.edu/news-and-events/becky-delventhal-and-students-attend-fly-meeting

GLC-ASPET Conference

Majo and Kamden won poster presentation awards at the GLC-ASPET conference on June 17, 2022! 

https://www.lakeforest.edu/news-and-events/foresters-sweep-undergraduate-poster-competition-at-glc-aspet