I just sent the poster for this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting to the printer. As our graduate student is preparing his defense and our postdoc did not get a visa (no thanks, US!), we just have a single poster […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The first conference after the Sars CoV2 pandemic! We’re headed for Paris, France tomorrow and our lab will present two posters, the work of graduate student Andreas Ehweiner and postdoc Radostina Lyutova. Andreas has been working on the cellular and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Learning is an essential component for an animal’s survival as it enables for better future decisions: such as finding more nutritious food or avoiding harmful stimuli. While the molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory have been studied extensively, only little […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week, Elizabeth Pennisi asked me to comment on the recent paper from Schreiweis et al. entitled “Humanized FoxP2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance”. Since I don’t know how much, if anything, of my answers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…