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Troy Littleton

… Institute and the MIT Department of Biology in 2000. Synapse Mapping Neural Plasticity Genetic Engineering Autism … Early Life Stress Brain Imaging Activity Sensors Glia synapse formation synaptic transmission glia epilepsy … shown that association of Cpx with SNAREs allows it to function as a facilitator for synaptic vesicle fusion and as …

‘Rewiring’ cortical circuits

… manifest at the connection between two neurons called a synapse and that most of the synapses neurons form to receive … in this screen were used to restore normal plasticity and function in animal models of brain disorders. In a 2011 … processing a different input strengthened a particular synapse on the neuron. When that happened, the team observed …

Fruit fly models of human disease

… has been studying the effects of loss of normal Huntingtin function in Drosophila models since 2009, yielding a series … harmfully misaggregates . They’ve found loss of normal function causes defects in the transport of mitochondria and … the transcription of genes that promote maturation of the synapse as they normally would. To set the stage for …

Young Picower scientists present projects at ‘SfN’

November 12, 2021
… (also see p. 9). Learning & Memory Naturally, a function of particular Picower Institute interest is learning … the fundamentally different activity of two common synapse types. Graduate student Ellen Guss screened for …
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