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| In which a Nature paper fails on several levels |
 Ok, so what else is new? We all love to rip GlamMag paperz to shreds in our journal clubs. This paper by Hong et al. last year in Nature stands out of the crowd in two main ways. For one, it shows how failing to realize...[more] |
| temperature Drosophila behavior walking |
| Posted on Sunday 17 May 2009 - 16:21:01 |
| How the brain is and isn't like a muscle |
| Use it or lose it, they say. The saying holds not only for muscle fitness, but also for the brain. The Romans already knew that 'mens sana in corpore sano' and today we know that both physical and mental fitness, exercis...[more] |
| brain default network spontaneity behavior |
| Posted on Thursday 20 August 2009 - 19:20:45 |
| that's the way science is |
| The headline says it all. You really need to be frustration tolerant in this business, even if there weren't any politics going on at the moment, to get all worked up about. So I've submitted this paper where I've blocked...[more] |
| Drosophila neuroscience transgenics behavior learning science brain |
| Posted on Friday 29 June 2007 - 17:33:04 |
| Cori Bargmann @ #SfN11: How Fixed Circuits Generate Flexible Behaviors |
| I met Cornelia Bargmann at a summer school in 1998. She gave a fantastic presentation on very elegant experiments in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. The studies covered all levels from genes to neurons and behavior...[more] |
| caenorhabditis elegans meeting worm behavior sfn |
| Posted on Tuesday 15 November 2011 - 00:52:41 |
| Spontaneous activity in the isolated leech nervous system |
| As reported earlier, I've now been working for a couple of days in Bill Kristan's lab at UCSD in La Jolla, California. The first few days I was practicing the dissection of the leech nervous system. I need to take the en...[more] |
| leech Kristan spontaneity experiments behavior isolated nervous system video |
| Posted on Sunday 29 August 2010 - 20:22:23 |
| Even in science, sometimes it really seems there is nothing new under the sun |
| In this week's journal club, we talked about an old paper from 1918! "The reactions to light and to gravity in Drosophila and its mutants" by Robert McEwen, in the Journal of Experimental Zoology. As the title says, the ...[more] |
| drosophila phototaxis attention decision-making behavior |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 February 2011 - 16:19:52 |
| The first motor-sensory system? |
| On the first day of last year's Gatsby workshop on "smaller cognitive systems", Gasper Jekely told us about their remarkable work on how the larvae of a marine polychaete worm (Platynereis dumerilii) perform phototaxis...[more] |
| Platynereis sensorimotor stuimulus response motor-sensory behavior evolution |
| Posted on Monday 13 July 2009 - 21:19:01 |
| Talk at SfN annual meeting in San Diego |
 One meeting is chasing another this year. Hopefully all this traveling will eventually pay off in terms of a job offer soon!From November 2-7 about 30,000 neuroscientists will meet in sunny San Diego for the annual SfN...[more] |
| science octopamine meeting Drosophila flight behavior |
| Posted on Monday 16 July 2007 - 10:11:39 |
| Why do we like to move it? An evolutionary hypothesis concerning motor control and reward. |
| I met Columbia neurologist John Krakauer (who has a very interesting brother at the Santa Fe Institute, by the way) at the 2006 SfN meeting in Atlanta after his ...[more] |
| reward dopamine octopamine insects mammals motor control behavior behavior initiation Krakauer |
| Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2008 - 16:46:00 |
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