Memory depends on a precise balance of crucial molecules. Neuroscientist Sathya Puthanveettil, Ph.D., studies how this balance changes at brain connections during learning to create and keep memories. His findings could eventually lead to treatments to improve memory function. Driving the News: When the brain’s synapses are activated, they…
Children born with a damaged gene needed for healthy brain development, SYNGAP1, experience seizures, sensory processing disorders, difficulty speaking, intellectual disability, and autism-like behaviors. It’s a condition without any treatments, one that’s hard both on parents and children, said Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at The Herbert Wertheim…
Molecular biologist Ezgi Hacisuleyman, Ph.D., investigates how neurons respond to signals, changing in milliseconds. She recently joined the institute from The Rockefeller University.
Hattori focuses on understanding and mapping how the brain integrates information to make decisions.
Part of the graduate program’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Capecchi’s talk described using the same mouse genetics research methods that earned him the Nobel Prize in 2007.
Neuroscientist Sathya Puthanveettil, Ph.D., has documented the packets of material that move from neuron body to synapse during memory formation.
When the brain’s synapses are activated, they set off a signaling cascade that results in the expression of long noncoding RNA called “ADEPTR.” The RNA is quickly transported along dendrites to synapses, where it acts on proteins involved in remodeling. (Image courtesy of Jenna Wingfield and Yibo Zhao of the…
