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"Sensory processing in a small brain"

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Rachel Wilson, PhD, Martin Family Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Neurobiology Invited Seminar Series

Rachel Wilson studies how simple circuits extract information about specific behaviorally relevant features of sensory stimuli. Her work focuses on the fruit fly Drosophila, with a special emphasis on the olfactory and auditory systems. Many of the basic building blocks of neural circuit connectivity and neural computation are likely to be conserved throughout evolutionary history; therefore, understanding how these elemental units function and work together is fundamental to understanding all neural circuit function. In 2008 she won a MacArthur Fellowship.

Contact: Irene Lofstrom