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I will show how we develop a toolbox of biomimetic nanostructures with defined membrane composition and mechanics, characterize them biochemically and biophysically, and link these properties to cellular uptake and cargo release.<br>\r\nCentral to our work are asymmetric vesicles, in which inner and outer leaflets are controlled independently: the outer leaflet governs recognition and uptake, while the inner leaflet protects and releases fragile cargo such as mRNA and proteins. I will close by extending this design space beyond lipids, to peptide- and polymer-based architectures and hybrids thereof, and to cell-selective targeting via membrane proteomes and surface polysaccharides.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Speaker</strong><br>\r\nKevin Jahnke is physicist specializing in biophysics and synthetic cell engineering, currently leading an Emmy Noether and Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Germany. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where he focused on engineering asymmetric lipid vesicles for drug delivery, and a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in 2022, following a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from Heidelberg University. 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In this talk, I will present our approach to bridging these regimes by programming material architecture, connectivity, and active response across multiple scales.<br>\r\nI will first show how geometric and topological design can overcome the trade-off between shape morphing and stiffness. Scale-inspired layered structures combine complex deformation with controllable load-bearing capacity, while topologically interlocked fabrics use collective interactions and jamming to transition from conformable sheets to stiff structures. Active fibers and hierarchical tessellations further enable programmable three-dimensional morphing and customized human assistance. I will also introduce granular metamaterials with reconfigurable bonds that assemble, disassemble, and rearrange to achieve adaptive mechanical and robotic functions. Finally, I will discuss coaxial direct ink writing as a strategy for embedding conductive pathways, dielectric insulation, and actuation directly into three-dimensional structures. The resulting electrostatic fibers and lattices enable programmable clutches, shape morphing, artificial muscles, and swimming robots. Together, these studies establish a pathway from soft matter to strong, active, and adaptive robotic systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography: </strong>Dr. Yifan Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he leads the Robotic Materials Group. He received his PhD in soft matter physics from the University of Chicago in 2016 and his BS in physics from Peking University in 2011. Before joining NTU in 2020, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Wang’s research integrates applied physics, mechanics, materials science, and advanced manufacturing to develop adaptive robotic materials, soft robotic systems, and human–machine interfaces. His work has appeared in leading journals, including Nature, Science Robotics, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Matter, and Nature Communications. He serves as an Associate Editor of Mechanics of Materials. His honors include the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge Catalyst Award, the Nanyang Assistant Professorship, and the Grainger Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Experimental Physics.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-04T10:59:58", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-04T11:06:14", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MED 0 1418", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61360740951", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/entities/person/Wang-Yifan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"View DR-NTU profile (opens in a new tab)\">Prof. Wang Yifa</a><a href=\"https://www.ntu.edu.sg/hass/faculty/faculty-profile/Wang-Yifan\">n</a>, <a href=\"https://www.ntu.edu.sg/mae/\">School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering</a>, <a href=\"https://www.ntu.edu.sg/\">Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/herbert.shea\">Prof. Herbert Shea</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Institute of Mechanical Engineering</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "MechE Colloquium: From Soft to Strong: Designing Active and Adaptive Robotic Materials", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122598/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/232/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/270/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 73127, "title": "AI Center Seminar – AI Fundamentals Series – MATS Fellows – \"Towards Robust Model Organisms for Eliciting Latent Knowledge\"", "slug": "ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-mats-fell", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-mats-fell", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34315/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34315/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34315/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-17", "end_date": "2026-11-17", "start_time": "14:30:00", "end_time": "15:30:00", "description": "<p>This talk is jointly organized by the <strong>EPFL AI Center, the ML4D Lab, and the</strong> <strong>MATS Research Program</strong> as part of the <strong>AI Fundamentals Seminar Series</strong>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Title</strong><br>\r\nTowards Robust Model Organisms for Eliciting Latent Knowledge<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nA key problem in AI safety is eliciting latent knowledge (ELK), extracting information from a model that is misaligned and more knowledgeable than its overseer. For example, a misaligned model used to scan code for vulnerabilities may want to withhold its findings, i.e., sandbag, in order to exploit them later.<br>\r\nTo study ELK empirically, we need model organisms that mirror this setting. Existing model organisms fall short in several respects. In this work, we train model organisms to withhold solutions in a vulnerability detection task.<br>\r\nWe combine transcript distillation with counter-prompting and tamper-resistance training to instill three properties that we argue are critical for a useful ELK testbed:\r\n</p><ol start=\"1\">\r\n\t<li><strong>Selectivity:</strong> The model sandbags when it thinks the overseer doesn't know the answer and complies otherwise.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Robustness:</strong> The model resists elicitation.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Retention:</strong> The model retains a knowledge advantage over the overseer, as opposed to losing the relevant capability.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nWe train a sequence of model organisms and show that our strongest model substantially outperforms prior models on robustness while keeping the other two properties intact.<br>\r\nWe hope that our model organisms provide a useful ELK testbed for the community, and that our methodology sparks the development of increasingly challenging model organisms.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Speakers & Bios</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Euodia Dodd — Imperial College London</strong><br>\r\n\tEuodia is a PhD student in the AI Security and Privacy Lab at Imperial College London supervised by Prof. Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, and a MATS 10.1 fellow researching AI Control. Her research focuses on detecting and controlling AI systems that behave adversarially, with research spanning model organisms, backdoors and quantifying privacy leakage in AI models. Before her PhD, Euodia completed an MPhil at Cambridge and spent two years building production AI systems at Goldman Sachs.<br>\r\n\t </li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Lennart Finke — MATS Fellow</strong><br>\r\n\tLennart Finke's work centers on the rigorous evaluation of large language models, with an emphasis on constructing difficult, contamination-resistant benchmarks that measure capabilities at the frontier of expert human knowledge. He contributed to Humanity's Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark of expert-authored academic questions designed to resist saturation and internet lookup, and to a Korean professional benchmark suite that cleans existing datasets and tests licensure-level domain expertise. This places his interests squarely in AI capability measurement and evaluation methodology, relevant to AI safety.<br>\r\n\t </li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Hardik Bhatnagar — Tübingen AI Center</strong> - Hardik is a PhD student at the Tübingen AI Center, advised by Matthias Bethge and Maksym Andriushchenko. He studies how to rigorously measure what LLMs can and can't do, especially as autonomous agents over long horizons, so we can deploy them safely and reliably. He co-led PostTrainBench, which measures whether LLM agents can autonomously post-train LLMs, and <em>A Sober Look at LM Reasoning</em>, which showed that many reported reasoning gains shrink under standardized evaluation. Most recently, at MATS with Mary Phuong (Google DeepMind), he trained model organisms for sandbagging: models that deliberately underperform on evaluations.</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-09T14:27:49", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-09T14:31:06", "link_label": "Zoom Link", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67428504046?pwd=bpqZcJmCalrvsTlGVbCi097IO2ryIP.1", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELE 117", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELE%20117", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67428504046?pwd=bpqZcJmCalrvsTlGVbCi097IO2ryIP.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Euodia Dodd, Lennart Finke, Hardik Bhatnagar", "organizer": "", "contact": "Nicolas Machado & Fares Fawzi", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122656/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72602, "title": "Pressure Points: Risk - Jess Myers / RIOT, MAS UTD", "slug": "pressure-points-risk-jess-myers-riot-mas-utd", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/pressure-points-risk-jess-myers-riot-mas-utd", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33846/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33846/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33846/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-16", "end_date": "2026-11-16", "start_time": "17:00:00", "end_time": "19:00:00", "description": "<p>“To emphasize (...) dubious uses of risk is perverse, a dirty way of talking about a<br>\r\nclean scientific subject”<br>\r\nMary Douglas, <em>Risk and Blame,</em> 36.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nAs the baseline condition of so many territories shaped by extractive industries, administrative delay, and climatic instability, risk is prevalent. Yet ecological risk—pollution, fires, floods, heatwaves, droughts—is still presented as problems to be solved rather than conditions to be inhabited. This also speaks to an outsourcing of risk through externalized consequences of spatial injustice. Banks, developers, material supply chains, normative institutions, subcontracting hierarchies —all contend with calculated risk. This edition of <u>Pressure Points</u> asks us to unpack what it means to live with the risk, how it is managed, commodified, quantified, invented, politicized, instrumentalized, tamed, and to think, design, cohabitate intellectually and physically with it. The assembled guests should help us think and build literacy toward developing tools for living within uncertain territories and futures.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Jess Myers</u><br>\r\nMonday, November 16, 17:00 CET<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://soa.syr.edu/live/profiles/1181-jess-myers\"><u>Jess Myers</u></a> is an urbanist whose practice includes work as an editor, writer, podcaster and curator, and is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Syracuse University. Previously, Myers was an assistant professor of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked as an archivist, translator and analyst in New York and Paris. Myers served as a co-steward of the Architecture Lobby’s New York chapter and as the series editor for SEIU’s book series, Taking Freedom. Her research takes many forms, including a variety of multimedia platforms, which she uses to explore politics and residency in urban conditions. Myers’ podcast, Here There Be Dragons focuses on the intersection of identity politics and security policy in public space through the eyes of New Yorkers, Parisians and Stockholmers. Myers’ work has been published in The Architect’s Newspaper, Log, The Funambulist Magazine, Failed Architecture, Avery Review, Dwell and l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. Her most recent exhibition, “A Pause Is Not A Break,“ was exhibited widely, including at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Iowa and Carleton University.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://www.riot.today/\">RIOT (Research and Innovation on Territory)</a> is a laboratory engaged in pedagogy and research within the Institute of Architecture (ENAC) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology–EPFL, led by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes with Elif Erez, Flore Guichot, Jeremy Ratib, Summer Islam, Antoine Iweins, Kathy Kao, Nathalie Marj, Romain Dubetier-Grenier, Sylvie Clavel, and Saira Mohammed. Believing that the construction sector and design disciplines must pivot and wholeheartedly engage in the current social and climatic urgencies by rewiring themselves to face and repair the harm, RIOT utilizes tactics and strategies to decarbonize, decolonize, and depatriarchalize space production–by design.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "Event Poster", "creation_date": "2026-09-16T15:33:36", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-25T13:41:15", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Foyer SG", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://soa.syr.edu/live/profiles/1181-jess-myers\"><u>Jess Myers</u></a> is an urbanist whose practice includes work as an editor, writer, podcaster and curator, and is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Syracuse University. Previously, Myers was an assistant professor of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked as an archivist, translator and analyst in New York and Paris. Myers served as a co-steward of the Architecture Lobby’s New York chapter and as the series editor for SEIU’s book series, Taking Freedom. Her research takes many forms, including a variety of multimedia platforms, which she uses to explore politics and residency in urban conditions. Myers’ podcast, Here There Be Dragons focuses on the intersection of identity politics and security policy in public space through the eyes of New Yorkers, Parisians and Stockholmers. Myers’ work has been published in The Architect’s Newspaper, Log, The Funambulist Magazine, Failed Architecture, Avery Review, Dwell and l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. Her most recent exhibition, “A Pause Is Not A Break,“ was exhibited widely, including at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Iowa and Carleton University.", "organizer": "RIOT, MAS UTD", "contact": "Elif Erez, [email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "risk, territory, ecology, architecture, spatial justice, material supply chains, extraction", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/2026PressurePointsPosterA3UPDATED.jpg", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121831/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/32/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72783, "title": "Engineering Leadership in a World of Accelerating Change", "slug": "engineering-leadership-in-a-world-of-accelerating", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/engineering-leadership-in-a-world-of-accelerating", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33998/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33998/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33998/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-16", "end_date": "2026-11-16", "start_time": "12:00:00", "end_time": "13:15:00", "description": "<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\r\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><strong>About the Campus Lecture:</strong><br>\r\nTechnology is changing faster than ever, and microelectronics is at the heart of that transformation. As engineering increasingly shapes how we live, work, and interact, the challenge is no longer simply what we can invent, but how we lead through rapid change.</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This lecture will explore the forces driving innovation in microelectronics and the leadership needed to turn that innovation into meaningful impact. It will highlight why collaboration across disciplines, organizations, and national boundaries is essential to engineering a better future.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>About Dr. Tsu-Jae Liu: </strong><br>\r\nDr. Tsu-Jae Liu is President of the National Academy of Engineering as of July 1, 2025. A distinguished engineer and academic leader, she earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1996, and served as Dean of the College of Engineering from 2018-2024.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nLiu is renowned for her research in microelectronics and for co-developing the FinFET transistor, now used in all leading-edge computer chips and smartphones. She has authored over 550 publications and holds 97 U.S. patents. Her recognitions include the DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award.<br>\r\nShe is a Fellow of the IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Liu serves on the Boards of Directors for Intel Corporation and MaxLinear Inc., and has contributed nationally through leadership in microelectronics workforce development and service to advisory boards for NSF, NIST, and the White House PCAST.<br>\r\n </div>\r\n</div>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-07T09:28:30", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-26T14:11:25", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "RLC E1 240", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr. Tsu-Jae Liu", "organizer": "Mediacom<br>\r\nRegister <a href=\"https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=alXC9vvEsUqix54iDfEcQ1KETRGT8VJOpW64Yvst_09UOE1TVFFST1g2R0hXTzRJWk1ZRTE1UUJPQi4u\">here </a>", "contact": "Bettina Caruso", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "Technology, innovation, Engineering, Leadership", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122089/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - 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Many high-capacity BCC HEAs, which mostly contain early 3<em>d</em> and refractory metals, have been reported<a>3</a>. However, the thermodynamics of these hydride phases and the multistep hydrogen uptake/release processes are not favorable for practical applications. Further compositional optimization is required before these alloys can be used in real-life applications. In this context, the main advantage of HEAs is their high chemical versatility, which allows their functional properties to be tuned, primarily through the strategy of elemental substitutions/additions. <br>\r\nThis oral contribution will provide an overview of the latest developments in optimizing the chemical composition of BCC HEAs for hydrogen storage applications. It will demonstrate that the selection of the most promising HEAs involves compromises relating to thermodynamics, kinetics, cycle life stability and high reversible capacity<a>4</a>. Despite the many scientific challenges posed by the complex interplay of physicochemical parameters and the vast compositional space of HEAs, as well as the trade-offs between several functional properties, this presentation will propose an understanding of the structure-function relationship in these promising alloys. The impact of structural properties, such as long- and short-range ordering, on the hydrogen sorption properties and the development of defects during cycling will also be examined<a>5</a>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>References: </strong><br>\r\n<a>1D. B. Miracle and O. N. Senkov, <em>Acta </em><em>Materialia</em>, 2017, <strong>122</strong>, 448–511.</a><br>\r\n2T. R. Somo, M. V. Lototskyy, V. A. Yartys, M. W. Davids and S. N. Nyamsi, <em>Journal of Energy Storage</em>, 2023, <strong>73</strong>, 108969.<br>\r\n3L. Luo, L. Chen, L. Li, S. Liu, Y. Li, C. Li, L. Li, J. Cui and Y. Li, <em>International Journal of Hydrogen Energy</em>, 2024, <strong>50</strong>, 406–430.<br>\r\n4A. Agafonov, N. Pineda-Romero, M. Witman, V. Nassif, G. B. M. Vaughan, L. Lei, S. Ling, D. M. Grant, M. Dornheim, M. Allendorf, V. Stavila and C. Zlotea, <em>Acta </em><em>Materialia</em>, 2024, <strong>276</strong>, 120086.<br>\r\n5N. Pineda Romero, J. Grelska, W. A. Sławiński, J. Čížek, O. Melikhova and C. Zlotea, <em>Journal of Alloys and Compounds</em>, 2026, <strong>1057</strong>, 186661.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio: Dr Claudia Zlotea is Director of Research at the East Paris Institute of Chemistry and Materials (ICMPE) – CNRS, France. She received a Ph.D. from the UniversityJoseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, in the field of Materials Science (2002). She is currently developing fundamental research on metal hydride materials for solid-state hydrogen storage and compression. Her main research activities focus on porous materials, composite nanomaterials, intermetallics and high-entropy alloys. 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How neurons balance molecular renewal with long-term stability remains one of the fundamental questions in cell biology.<br>\r\nIn this seminar, I will discuss our efforts to uncover the principles of neuronal molecular maintenance by studying the dynamics, regulation, and spatial organization of proteins. Using quantitative approaches to measure protein turnover at the proteome scale, we reveal how the lifetime of neuronal proteins contributes to the preservation of synaptic identity and how these processes are altered during aging. I will further discuss how phosphorylation dynamics add an additional regulatory layer, controlling protein states and functional transitions within neuronal systems.<br>\r\nTo understand how molecular dynamics translate into cellular architecture, I will present our development and application of advanced imaging approaches, including super-resolution microscopy and SUM-PAINT, to map the nanoscale organization of synaptic proteins with molecular precision.<br>\r\nTogether, these approaches reveal neurons as dynamic molecular systems, where time, space, and regulation are integrated to maintain synaptic function across the lifespan. 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