Gillian Dohrn

Science Journalist

United States

I'm an aspiring journalist studying science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I grew up in Seattle, WA, and studied molecular and cellular biology at Colorado College. I worked in research publishing for several years after graduating in 2019. As a science journalist, I aspire to share emerging research with the communities impacted by it through personal stories.

Portfolio
Nature
04/18/2024
Why queasiness kills hunger: brain circuit identified

Feelings of hunger, nausea and fullness seem to be governed by separate brain circuits, finds a study in mice. Feelings of hunger, nausea and fullness seem to be governed by separate brain circuits, finds a study in mice.

Mongabay Environmental News
11/30/2023
Ecologists help migratory birds adapt to climate change

A team of scientists drives across northern Europe under the cloak of darkness in a white van full of carefully caged songbirds. They're on their way from the Netherlands to Sweden, where winter weather will linger for two weeks longer. The birds in the van are European pied flycatchers who arrived in the Netherlands earlier [...]

Stanford News
11/08/2023
How mice choose to eat or to drink | Stanford News

A new Stanford study uses behavioral analysis, neural engineering, electrophysiology, and math to explore how mice decide whether to eat or drink when they are both hungry and thirsty.

the Guardian
03/16/2018
Come together: how music is rebuilding bridges in divided Balkans

Back in the days of Yugoslavia, they used to call music "the seventh republic" - a great unifier in a region prone to division. Today, in a small schoolroom in Mostar, it is still bringing people together. Here, the curriculum is rock'n'roll, the pupils are from both sides of a still-divided city, and the professors are stars.