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Life and death factors for neurons

… such factors. In 2015, after identifying a potential molecular pathway that appeared to contribute to the death of …

Fruit fly models of human disease

… knocked out in fruit flies. Receptors for a key form of molecular signaling from the presynaptic side called Wnt …

Epigenetic loss and rescue of memory recall

… In a landmark paper in 2007, the lab identified a molecular mechanism when they inhibit HDAC enzymes that …

Four MIT faculty elected 2016 AAAS Fellows

November 21, 2016

… neuroscience, particularly for defining novel cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying activity-dependent synaptic …

Mark Bear

… is an excellent preparation to connect the elementary molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity to their … is therefore an excellent preparation to dissect the molecular basis of bidirectional synaptic plasticity. …

Kwanghun Chung

… and integrated microsystems for high-throughput imaging, molecular/behavioral phenotyping, and cell microsurgery of a … termed CLARITY, which enables system-wide structural and molecular analysis of large-scale intact biological samples. …

Fellowship supports student’s work to advance Alzheimer’s research and equity

July 09, 2024

NSF ‘CAREER’ award helps fund Flavell lab study of behavioral states

February 12, 2019

… detailed knowledge across many scales of analysis: from molecular events in single neurons to large-scale patterns of …

"What made me aware I wanted to study the brain?"

March 18, 2018

… discuss their early inspiration circuits Cellular and Molecular oscillations cognitive neuroscience disease During …

Silent Engrams: Distinctions between memory storage and recall

… of the memory process. In a 2015 paper looking at the molecular mechanisms of memory consolidation, Tonegawa’s lab …