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Meet the Expert: Communicating on the Fly — What Neural Circuit Computations in Drosophila Can Teach Us About Our Own Brains
Bianca Williams posted an event in Community Calendar
untilRegister Here! Mala Murthy will highlight discoveries from her lab on the neural mechanisms and computations underlying social communication in the Drosophila model system and the many parallels with communication strategies in other animals, including humans. She will explain the important role of developing quantitative tools for studying behavior. She will also discuss the choices that led her and her lab down this research path and the role of effective communication in science. -
Meet the Expert: Building Things in Brains: Chemistry Construction Projects for Analysis and Discovery in Neural Systems
Bianca Williams posted an event in Community Calendar
untilRegister Here! Over the past seven years, an in situ chemical synthesis approach to biological systems has emerged, in which functional materials are assembled within tissues such as the brain – either constructed throughout the intact tissue (hydrogel-tissue chemistry/HTC), or genetically targeted to cell types (genetically-targeted chemical assembly/GTCA). Resulting hybrid materials are endowed with diverse capabilities, including anchoring and labeling of RNA and protein, in situ sequencing, transparency, reversible size changes, and electrical insulation or conduction. -
Meet the Expert: Studying Both Sexes in a World Built Around the Male Brain
Bianca Williams posted an event in Community Calendar
untilRegister Here! Rebecca Shansky’s research investigates sexual dimorphism in fear circuitry using rodent models. Shansky’s lab integrates sophisticated behavioral analyses with high-resolution fluorescent microscopy to identify sex-specific patterns of fear expression, learning, and structural plasticity. She will discuss the challenges and surprises she’s encountered as a sex differences-focused behavioral neuroscientist, as well as her current advocacy for sex equity in animal research. -
Meet the Expert: Finding Simplicity in Complexity
Bianca Williams posted an event in Community Calendar
untilRegister Here! Biological systems in general – and nervous systems in particular – are strikingly complex. For centuries, scientists have made progress by isolating and characterizing individual units of these systems. However, the units are not enough to explain the system; we need a language in which to encode the intricate patterns of unit-to-unit interactions. Dani Bassett will discuss how network science provides this type of language, embracing greater complexity while distilling the simple rules of biological architecture and function.