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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TAKING MICROSCOPY TO THE LIMIT — AND BEYOND
(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…
NEW RESEARCH CENTER AIMS TO MAP BRAIN’S NERVE CIRCUITS IN SEARCH FOR CAUSES OF MENTAL ILLNESS
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…
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…
NEW YORK TIMES: “IN PURSUIT OF A MIND MAP, SLICE BY SLICE”
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.…
EXERCISE, CALORIC RESTRICTION REJUVENATE AGING SYNAPSES
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.…
CONNECTOMICS
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…
WATCHING SYNAPSES CHANGE IN ANIMALS
Some of the authors (left to right): Corey M McCann, Juan Carlos Tapia, and Jeff W Lichtman Image shows submandibular ganglion neurons (blue) that express Cyan Fluorescent Protein…
BEAUTY IN THE BRAIN OF THE BEHOLDER
Jean Livet “Brainbow” Mouse Brain Stem. Montage of confocal images from a “Brainbow” transgenic mouse, genetically engineered to express combinations of red, yellow and cyan fluorescent proteins in…
TECHNICOLOR BRAINS: MAPPING NEURAL CIRCUITS IN “BRAINBOW” MICE
The co-authors (left to right): Ju Lu, Jeff W. Lichtman, Jean Livet, Joshua R. Sanes, Tamily A. Weissman, Ryan W. Draft, Hyuno Kang More than a century ago,…
