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June 22, 2023

Study reveals how glial cells may play key epilepsy role

April 30, 2019

MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Betty Hong, PhD, Caltech

… by which olfactory inputs are integrated in the brain. The Drosophila olfactory system shares a similar overall circuit … early stages of olfactory processing in the fruit fly Drosophila . In 2015, she joined the Division of Biology and …

Huntington's Model Fruit Flies

… discovered for its ability to reduce toxicity in the Drosophila Huntingon’s Disease model, to treat …

Picower at Neuroscience 2021

… alters synaptic transmission and synaptic development at Drosophila glutamatergic neuromuscular junctions *E. BRIJA 1 … and their role in synaptic strength and maturation at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction *E. J. GUSS , P. PUJOLS …

Providing new pathways for neuroscience research and education

September 29, 2022

… through MIT summer research program in biology. drosophila synapse function serotonin Neuromodulators DEIJ …

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Jason Shepherd, PhD, "Virus-like intercellular communication in the nervous system"

… contains homology to the retroviral Gag polyproteins. The Drosophila Arc homologs, which are independently derived from …

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Thomas Clandinin, PhD, "What are the neural correlates of future voluntary actions?"

… with walking across the entire brain of the fruit fly Drosophila, register these signals across animals with micron …

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Larry Zipursky, PhD, UCLA, "Strategies and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Brain Wiring"

Without key extracellular protein, neuronal axons break and synaptic connections fall apart

June 12, 2023

… protein called Perlecan. Without that protein in Drosophila fruit flies, researchers at The Picower Institute …