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JOSHUA SANES PRESENTS HARVEY LECTURE NOVEMBER 15 IN NEW YORK CITY

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Joshua Sanes will speak at Harvey Society’s lecture series on November 15 at 8:00 PM at The Rockefeller University in New York…

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IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME [SANES LAB]

(L to R) Dimitar Kostadinov, Joshua Sanes, and Julie Lefebvre Neurons in the brain extend elaborately branched dendrites that receive inputs from other neurons and sensory stimuli.  In…

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SPREADING THE WEALTH IN THE RETINA

(L to R)Joshua R. Sanes and Jeremy Kay The retina is a lot more complicated than a simple camera. In fact, it acts more like a parallel processing…

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BRAIN TEAM WINS NIH AWARD

(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…

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A ROLE FOR MICRORNAS IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS

(L to right) Gregorio Valdez and Joshua R. Sanes The great baseball player, Lou Gehrig, gave his name to the neurodegenerative disease that killed him, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.…

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WHAT’S “UP” WITH MOUSE VISION?

Co-authors (L to R) Yifeng Zhang, Markus Meister, Joshua R. Sanes, In-Jung Kim, and Masahito Yamagata, A mouse is small, close to the ground. Hawks and cats may…

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TECHNICOLOR BRAINS: MAPPING NEURAL CIRCUITS IN “BRAINBOW” MICE

More than a century ago, Ramón y Cajal’s use of Golgi staining to visualize nerve cells opened the door to modern neurobiology: by staining a small number of…

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A KINASE PATHWAY REQUIRED FOR NEURONAL POLARITY

Authors Josh Sanes (left) and Brendan Lilley Directional flow of information within the nervous system depends upon the ability of neurons to divide themselves into discrete compartments. Most…

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