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C. elegans locomotion: Connectivity, Activity and Recovery from Injury – 4/29/13
Gal Haspel Laboratory of Neural Control, NINDS, NIH from July 2013 Department of Biological Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology What are the rules that govern connectivity, activity and robustness of neuronal networks that underlie fundamental behaviors? Locomotion is a fundamental behavior shared by all animals and understanding its neuronal basis has been a major ...
Paradigm Smashers I Have Known – 4/15/13
Dr. Harold Morowitz Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study Robinson Professor of Biology & Natural Philosophy George Mason University Carl Woese Trumps Carl Linnaeus Peter Mitchell Trumps Almost Everyone Phylogeny and Bioenergetics have undergone “revolutionary” change in the past fifty years driven in large part by the work of two individuals who ...
Modern 3D electron microscopy for mapping neuronal circuit connectivity – 4/8/13
Kevin Briggman, Ph.D. National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke National Institutes of Health The computations performed by neural circuits are defined by the physiological properties of individual neurons and the synaptic connectivity amongst them. While ever more sophisticated methods to record and manipulate the physiology of neurons have appeared over the last few decades, ...
Microfluidics approach to study cell cycle and migration responses at the single cell level – 4/1/13
Dr. Nitin Agrawal Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering George Mason University A central problem in biology is to interpret the cellular responses to their complex and dynamic microenvironments and appropriately link them with their molecular profiles. Traditional biochemical approaches provide stochastic measurements as ensemble average of cell communities reflecting the biological mechanisms operating within the ...
No Monday Seminar – 3/25/13
There will be no Monday Seminar on Monday, March 25th in observance of Passover.
Making the Invisible, Visible: Discoveries Between Art and Science- 3/18/13
Rebecca Kamen, Ph.D. Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor Northern Virginia Community College Scientists and artists have always harnessed extraordinary gifts of curiosity and innovation as a guiding force for discovery. Before the advent of the camera, scientists, like artists, utilized drawing and painting as a means of capturing and disseminating observations. This lecture will explore the concept ...
No Monday Seminar – 3/11/13
There will be no Monday Seminar during Mason’s spring break. Please join us again on Monday, March 18th.
Relations between whisker stiffness and its bending properties during contact with objects – 3/4/13
David Golomb, Ph.D. Full Professor, Ben Gurion University of Beer Shiva On sabbatical in Svoboda lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farms Rodents can estimate object radial distance using a single whisker. The forces, moments and deflection at the whisker base, where mechanoreceptors of trigeminal ganglion neurons are located, are determined by the modifications ...
Motor Neuron Regulation of Adult Myogenesis in Drosophila – 2/25/13
Joyce Fernandes, Ph.D. Professor, Miami University Rotating Program Officer, Division of Biological Infrastructure, National Science Foundation During the Drosophila life cycle, two distinct sets of muscles develop: the embryonic and adult muscles. Embryonic muscles function in hatching and grow in size through the larval stage during which they aid in locomotory behaviors. At the onset ...
No Monday Seminar – 2/18/13
There will be no Monday Seminar on February 18th, President’s Day.
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