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Novel larval model of degeneration (New project funded by Owens Foundation)
This is a fast-moving exciting new project: contact lab for more info. We have found a specific site in the developing fly brain where a type of degeneration happens and are developing this as a model of neurodegeneration.
Larval vision and social behavior
(Current Biology, 2019,2017, Nature Communications, 2013, J Comp Phys 2015; funded by Hobby Foundation)
Fly larvae undergo a critical period of synaptic plasticity in which they learn to socially cooperate. We are using this as a model to understand critical period plasticity as well as how social behavior develops.
This is a fast-moving exciting new project: contact lab for more info. We have found a specific site in the developing fly brain where a type of degeneration happens and are developing this as a model of neurodegeneration.
Larval vision and social behavior
(Current Biology, 2019,2017, Nature Communications, 2013, J Comp Phys 2015; funded by Hobby Foundation)
Fly larvae undergo a critical period of synaptic plasticity in which they learn to socially cooperate. We are using this as a model to understand critical period plasticity as well as how social behavior develops.
