Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology

Dr. Darya Task received a BS in Psychology and BA in Spanish from the Ohio State University in 2011. She earned her PhD from the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2019, where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher J. Potter studying fly and mosquito olfaction. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Gordus. Her current interests include understanding the neural basis of web-building behavior in the orb-weaving spider Uloborus diversus and developing new genetic tools for neuroscience research in spiders.