Timothy W. Schwanitz majored in English and Entomology at Rutgers University, where he completed an English honors thesis on the relationship between science and American Transcendentalist literature. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Neuroscience in the lab of Lindy McBride at Princeton University. His project is to make a partial molecular atlas for the antennal lobe of Aedes aegypti. He is interested in anything insect related, especially insect neurobiology.