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| Sea slug genetics reveal learning machinery |
| The sea slug Aplysia has been a popular model for learning and memory for almost 40 years now. It can perform simple learning tasks and its brain cells (neurons) are so large, they are very easy to experiment on. With th...[more] |
| Aplysia learning genes |
| Posted on Wednesday 03 January 2007 - 15:37:45 |
| After 40 years of research, there may be a reason why Aplysia can learn |
 I'm currently in sunny southern California for some experiments at UCSD. This is the place where one can find the marine snail Aplysia in its natural habitat. As I've been working with Aplysia for about ten years now, I...[more] |
| aplysia lobster sensitization learning |
| Posted on Thursday 19 August 2010 - 07:11:08 |
| Aplysia operant conditioning @ Scholarpedia |
| Recycling a review article from 2003 as base, I've started to write a Scholarpedia article on Aplysia operant conditoning. While the content concerning operant reward learning is basically complete, this is currently sti...[more] |
| Aplysia feeding operant Scholarpedia neuroscience learning memory |
| Posted on Thursday 12 July 2007 - 08:43:48 |
| Cognition workshop at Macquarie in Sydney |
| After an unusually rewarding and exciting SfN meeting in New Orleans with many ideas and new tools for the next experiments, I spent a day at my old lab in Houston, Texas to record some new, higher resolution videos of s...[more] |
| aplysia spontaneous SfN meeting Corpus Christi Mozzachiodi cognition macquarie australia sydney |
| Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2012 - 03:07:17 |
| Mount Sinai MedSchool |
| After a very successful 3-week stay at UCSD in La Jolla, I'm now for a short stint in New York City, visiting the Klaudiusz Weiss lab here at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. I'm here by invitation of Betsy Cropper, a lon...[more] |
| Aplysia Cropper Mount Sinai Medical School Weiss |
| Posted on Wednesday 07 June 2006 - 15:05:39 |
| and another tiny step ahead |
Today was a good day (despite it being Monday, hehe  ). First, the dissection went really well (see pics). Using this preparation, we found out that the ganglia are still capable of producing buccal motor programs after...[more] |
| Aplysia UCSD |
| Posted on Tuesday 23 May 2006 - 03:54:25 |
| How brains generate variable behavior |
 Animals constantly have to adapt to varying environmental conditions, explore new situations and figure out new strategies to catch prey or avoid predators. On the other hand, they need to be able to behave consistently...[more] |
| Aplysia behavior SfN meeting variability spontaneity |
| Posted on Sunday 18 October 2009 - 20:38:02 |
| ...and now for some slugs in science |
| Cheesy but true: that's what slugs are for! I only think Tritonia and Pleurobranchia are missing Via DSN. ...[more] |
| slugs aplysia kandel youtube video |
| Posted on Saturday 14 August 2010 - 17:20:55 |
| Great review on sea slug learning |
| There's a great new article out in the journal Learning & Memory. It reviews the recent developments in the field of conditioning the feeding behavior of the sea slug Aplysia. You can see an example of what this beha...[more] |
| paper Aplysia learning |
| Posted on Friday 01 December 2006 - 19:17:12 |
| perfect prep |
| It's one of those days... Today, I was able to produce the most beautiful preparation so far! I got the delicate buccal ganglion of Aplysia desheathed so beautifully, I love it! It felt so good and looked so pretty that ...[more] |
| optophysiology imaging aplysia buccal ganglia |
| Posted on Monday 29 May 2006 - 00:39:18 |
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