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Secrets of the Brain By Carl Zimmer (National Geographic) A Voyage Into the Brain video (National Geographic) View Jeff Lichtman's Faculty Profile
MCB 68: Cell Biology Through the Microscope MCB 68 explores three fundamental fields of eukaryotic cell biology: chromosome segregation, cell motility, and neuroscience. Each topic is approached from…
Science NEWS & ANALYSIS Science 22 November 2013: 917-918 Download PDF View Jeff Lichtman's Faculty Profile
The goal of this study was to investigate the pattern of nerve connections between motor neurons and muscle fibers in newborn and embryonic animals. Previous work by us…
(L to R) Susan Mango, Andy McMahon, Bodo Stern, Catherine Dulac, Sam Kunes (seated), Alex Schier, and Jeff Lichtman Even with the most powerful optical microscopes, biologists who…
Scientists in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) and Center for Brain Science (CBS) have launched a high-tech effort to map the brain’s “wiring diagram” and…
(L-R)Jeff Lichtman, Markus Meister, and Joshua Sanes A special federal grant for bold, outside-of-the-box biomedical proposals has been awarded to an MCB team with an ambitious plan to…
The work of the Lichtman Lab to map the brain's complex wiring was featured in the Science section of The New York Times on December 27, 2010. Dr.…
The neuromuscular junction on the top is from a young adult mouse; that on the bottom from an 2-year old mouse, which is quite old for a mouse.…
Ju Lu and Jeff Lichtman It is widely believed that in order to understand how the nervous system works, one needs to know where neural processes go and…
