Compression of a small neural circuit
Event details
| Date | 09.06.2026 |
| Hour | 14:30 › 15:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Mei Zhen <[email protected]> |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
The ability of animals to generate goal-oriented motor behaviors ensures their survival. Combining connectomics, genetics, optogenetics, and electrophysiology, we have begun to reveal cellular mechanisms that drive the motor behaviors of C. elegans, an animal with a small and non-spiking nervous system. I will present published and unpublished progress that describes the underlying of motor rhythm, motor rhythm modulation, and motor state organization. These results imply fascinating functional compression and computation that enables a small nervous system to serve as a compact model to dissect the organizational logic of circuits, and how it might be compared across neural systems with vastly different anatomy and membrane physiology.
This Talk is part of the Bernoulli workshop Peering through Behavior into the Brain
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Organizer
- Prof. Sahand Jamal Rahi <[email protected]> Johanni Brea <[email protected]>
Contact
- Prof. Sahand Jamal Rahi <[email protected]> Johanni Brea <[email protected]>