Giving zebrafish ketamine can stop them from “giving up” during tasks where trying to swim is futile. A new study led by researchers from the Engert Lab and…
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How to Align Neural Representations
The animal body is bilaterally symmetric, and most sense organs (eyes, ears and nose) occur in pairs. These paired sensory organs provide independent measurements of the environment in…
Early Life Stress Shapes Attention Deficits in Male (But Not Female) Mice [Hensch Lab]
In a new study published in Science Translational Medicine (PDF), the Hensch Lab shares evidence that erratic maternal caregiving during a critical period leads to attention deficits in…
Meiotic Homologous Chromosome Pairing Involves Rapid Local Juxtaposition and Temporal Linkage of Pairing and Crossover Patterning [KLeckner Lab]
Work spearheaded by post-doctoral fellow Tadasu Nozaki, in the Kleckner laboratory, and recently published in Nature (PDF), uses a powerful new approach to examine pairing of homologous chromosomes…
Walking Fish and the Origins of Limbs: How Sea Robins Illuminate Evolutionary Wonders
Imagine a fish with legs, not just fins. A creature that strolls along the ocean floor, hunting for prey with an almost eerie precision. This is the remarkable…
Graduate Student Spotlight: Julius Tabin (Elya Lab)
OEB graduate student Julius Tabin is a member of the Elya Lab. There he is investigating fungus-infected “zombie” flies and searching for the molecule or molecules that cause…
Lichtman Lab Pairs Immunolabeling with Connectomic Data
A team of researchers from the Lichtman Lab, led by Program in Neuroscience (PiN) graduate student turned joint postdoc in the Lichtman and Dulac Labs Xiaomeng Han, has…
AI Agents Help Worms Find Food by Integrating with Their Nervous Systems [Ramanathan Lab]
There is a class of AI called reinforcement learning (RL), which works by taking actions in an environment and then learning from the outcome. RL agents have become…
Model Predicts Size of Yeast Clusters [Murray Lab]
Researchers from the Murray Lab, led by Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) graduate student Piyush Nanda, have recently published a paper in the journal Current Biology on a…
Lichtman Lab Teams With Google to Map 150 Million Synapses in Human Brain Sample
Since 2018, the Lichtman Lab has been painstakingly mapping every cell and synapse in a tiny brain sample from a human patient. Although the sample represents only one…
