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Special Seminar with Hiroki Ueda, MD, PhD

… Organism-level Systems Biology by Next-generation Genetics and Whole-organ Cell Profiling 2018-11-09T16:00:00-0500 … Event The system-level identification and analysis of molecular and cellular networks in mammals can be accelerated by …

Brain networks encoding memory come together via electric fields, study finds

July 10, 2023
… metaphor is also incomplete. What drives these circuits and networks to come together? New evidence suggests that at … in an orchestra, the brain regions are their sections, and the memory is the music they produce, the study’s authors … addition to neurons, electric fields affected the brain’s molecular infrastructure and its tuning so that the brain …

Livestreaming the Brain

March 15, 2024
… works, Picower Institute labs are advancing technologies and methods to watch it live as it happens multiphoton microscopy calcium imaging In vivo cellular imaging voltage imaging all-optical physiology To … establishment of her lab in 1998. She wanted to study the molecular basis of “plasticity,” the way the brain builds and …

Basic cell health systems wear down in Huntington’s disease, novel analysis shows

February 23, 2021
… complex datasets shows that as disease progresses, neurons and astrocytes lose the ability to maintain homeostasis mRNA … yielded a trove of specific gene networks governing molecular pathways that disease researchers may now be able … into how abnormal expression of those genes could affect cellular health and function. Big breakdowns The Geomic …

Mark Bear

… Investigator in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences … is an excellent preparation to connect the elementary molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity to their … is critical to forms of learning and memory. The simple cellular architecture of the hippocampus also makes it …
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