Speaker : Vanessa RUTA, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and behavior the Rockefeller University
"Circuit mechanisms of adaptive behavior"
Animals display fantastic diversity in their behaviors, both within and across different species. In this lecture, I will describe how we have been using the concise neural circuitry of Drosophila to elucidate how nervous systems are adapted over different timescales, through individual experience or evolutionary selection to give rise to flexible variations in behavior. By applying an interdisciplinary perspective, from the structure of sensory receptors to the algorithms of complex behaviors, we have begun to shed light on how behaviors can be modified at the level of molecular, synaptic, and circuit motifs.
Hosted by Bassem HASSAN
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Conference location
Please join the conference in Paris Brain Institute auditorium.