Mark Dombrovskiy

Mark Dombrovski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned his M.S. in Biochemistry from Moscow State University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Virginia, followed by postdoctoral training in Larry Zipursky’s laboratory at UCLA. His research investigates how neurons form precise connections during development and how the resulting circuits support behavior. Using the fruit fly visual system, his laboratory combines genetics, imaging, single-cell transcriptomics, and connectomics to uncover how molecular recognition and gene regulation shape neural wiring. His work has been supported by a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship and an NIH K99/R00 award.