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DYNEIN PUTS ITS BEST FOOT FORWARD [LESCHZINER LAB]

(L to R) Sirui Zou, Bret Redwine, Andres Leschziner, Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, and Samara Reck-Peterson, front row Locksley Walking takes an enormous amount of coordination. As your leading foot…

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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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GOOD NOISE, BAD NOISE [UCHIDA LAB]

  Biological systems are inherently noisy: they contain randomness beyond an observer’s control. The most common approach to deal with noise is simply to throw it away: by…

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VOLUME CONTROL AT THE SYNAPSE [MURTHY LAB]

You can't miss it in the news these days: neuroscientists are excited about anatomical reconstruction of neural connectivity. In fact, the term "connectomics" is a frequently-edited entry in…

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THE INPUTOME OF DOPAMINE NEURONS IDENTIFIED [UCHIDA LAB]

A central goal in neuroscience is to understand how diverse types of neurons interact to form complex networks. A critical step toward this goal is to find out…

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STUDY SUGGESTS NEURAL WIRING PEAKS AT BIRTH AND THEN IT’S ALL DOWNHILL FROM THERE [LICHTMAN LAB]

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…

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FISH IN THE MATRIX: MOTOR LEARNING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

(L to R) Drew Robson, Jennifer Li, Ruben Portugues, Alexander Schier, Florian Engert, and Misha Ahrens There are two fundamentally different forms of sensory information that are being…

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MORE TRICKS IN BACTERIAL CHEMOTAXIS

(L to R) Richard Branch, Junhua Yuan, Basarab Hosu and Howard Berg The bacterium Escherichia coli decides whether life is getting better or worse by swimming about and…

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