Dr. Benjamin Matthews

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Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology

Dr. Benjamin Matthews received a BS in Biology from the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and completed his graduate research at Columbia University in the Laboratory of Wes Grueber where he worked on the phenomenon of ‘self-avoidance’ during the development of sensory neuron dendritic arbors in Drosophila melanogaster. At UBC, Ben is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Physiology Group of the Department of Zoology where his research group studies the genetic and neurobiological basis of behaviour in animals ranging from mosquitoes to fishes. He is also a member of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, the Biodiversity Research Centre and the Genome Science and Technology training program. He has received a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in the Neurosciences and a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

Website

  • 10th International Symposium on the Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants (ISEPEP 2025)

    July 14-17, 2025

    ISEPEP featured world-leading research in the environmental physiology of ectotherms, including plants, microbes, vertebrates, and invertebrates.

Publications

  • Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans. Morita T., Lyn N.G., von Heynitz R.K., Goldman O.V., Sorrells T.R., DeGennaro M., Matthews B.J., Houri-Zeevi L., Vosshall L.B. bioRxiv (2023).
    2023
  • Non-Canonical Odor Coding in the Mosquito. Herre M., Goldman O.V., Lu T-C., Caballero-Vidal G., Qi Y., Gilbert Z.N., Gong Z., Morita T., Rahiel S., Ghaninia M., Ignell R., Matthews B.J., Li H., Vosshall L.B., Younger M.A. Cell (2022).
    2022
  • Mosquito brains encode unique features of human odour to drive host seeking. Zhao Z., Zung J.L., Hinze A., Kriete A.L., Iqbal A., Younger M.A., Matthews B.J., Merhof D., Thiberge S., Ignell R., Strauch M., and McBride C.S. Nature (2022).
    2022